Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1915-11-25
.BOY-ED Chief OF
GERMAN PLOTTERS
PROSECUTOR SAYS
Federal Attorney In Opening
Case Of Hamburg-American
Line Agents Traces Al
legged Conspiracy.
ONE WITNESS IN BERMUDA

WOOQ OeClaESS MOuSy
Sent From Germany to IL
nance Supplying Of Com
merce Raiders.
New York. Nov. 24.-An important
witness for the government In the cas-
against Karl BuenZ, managing directoEs
and employees. of the Hamburg -Amer-
lean line. charged with sending SUP
ply ships to German warships In the
Atlantic, has left the jurisdiction OF tne
United States. He is now IN Bermuaa-
This became known when the court 70
convened for the second day OF tao
trial, which passed the jury -flMne
stage an hour after the session began
with the securing of the 18th man.
The name of this witness and wnaA
chinery were not disclosed by Roger =.
Wood, assistant district attorney. II
charge of the prosecution. Mr.. Wosd
said, however, that the man knew ho
would be wanted to testify.
Admission Withdrawn.
Immediately after the Jury box was
filled, William Rand, of counsel Tor the
Wood that he would withdraw thAe
part of the previous admission pertain
Ing to the alleged. connection Of Cap
tain K. Boy-Ed. German naval AZ
tache. with the acts charged by tnd
government. This part of the admis-
sion made by the defendants stat00
that Captain Boy Ed had been consult
ed regarding the sending of steamships
with supplies to German sea raiders
and that the work had been carried Oh
largely under the naval attaches dtrec-
ton. No reason for withdrawing tns
<7,,,ic cc1r civ & J
In almost the first words of his open
| ing address to the jury. Mr.. Wood
charged that Captain K. Boy-Ed, Ger
man naval attache, directed the char
I tterfng ana toad ding OF some OF the ves-
sells and that $75O,0OO for relief OF Ger
man warships was spent under his d.
rection here.
I'VE expect to show" Mr.. Wood said
that this conspiracy exended from
New York and Philadelphia to San
Francisco and New Orleans. We expect
to show that Mr.. Buenz employed .
man named Kulenkampf to clear two
vessels in hurry from Philadelphia
at the very opening of the war. telling
him that this was desirable because
| the Hamburg American line should not
appear in the transaction.
Money For Germany.
"We can prove that one vessel-the
| berwind-was loaded with coal bought
from the Berwind Coal company. and
we understand that DIR. Buenz wanted
| Mr.. Berwind, of the coal company. t0
clear the steamer, but that Mr.. Ber-
wind demurrered and kulenkampf waS
called in to do the work
I'VE shall prove that not long after
wards Kulenkampf received $3.50. 0.O00
| from some place in German-he did not
know where or from whom-that he
put this money in two New York banks
and that soon after Captain Boy-Ed
| fn i'm md tn1 hat tHNau
money was to be spent under his
1 (l3oy- -Eds) personal direction.
We shall show that 100000 to
| S6OO,O00 of this money was sent to San
Francisco where it was spent to char
ter and supply three ships with coal
and provisions, and that these vessels
sailed out and met the German cruiser
Leipzig and perhaps the Dresden.
"One hundred and thirty five thou
sand dollars of this money. we shall
show, was spent for the purchase out
right of one of these three vessels and
all of the S750.000 was spent under
Captain Boy Eds personal direction
and Instructions.
Carried Supplies.
sixteen or II ships We're used," Mr..
Wood continued. by the defendants to
carry coal. water, wine, sauer kraut
and other needed supplies to the Leip-
zig. Dresden, Cape Trafalgar, Eba.
Santa Lucia Eleanor Woermer and
other German men of war. These
steamers all carried supercargO bear
ing sealed instructions which were
opened aftcr the vessel steamed away,
sometimes within the three mile linz
it,"
The defendant, Kotter, we shall
show signed letters which the super
cargo carried and these letters. ad-
dressed to the captains Of the steam
ers selected to supply German war
ships. instructed the captains to obey
the supercargoes and promised them
liberal gratuities for doing so.
I'VE shall show that after these
vessels sailed for Buenos Aires, La
Guayra. Cadiz. Morovia and other des-
tinations the supercarGoes instructed
the captains to go elsewhere and that
the captains obeying these Instructions
took their vessels to meet German war
ships at sea and to deliver to the war
ships the supplies aboard
I'VE shall show that these defen-
dants conspired. at various meetings.
to do all these things: that IN SO do
ing they rode rough-shod over the
laws and treaties of the United States
as contemptuously as II these laws
and treaties had been mere scraps of
paper
Mr.. Woods address lasted less than
40 minutes.
Admits Many Facts.
Il
Tense, opened with these words:
$50 far as certain facts are con-
cerned. we concede that they are just
as Mr.. Wood stated them to be.
we concede that certain ships
sailed from American ports to supply
German warships and admit that these
ships were outfitted by DIR. Buenz and
the other defendants, but deny that the
acts of the defendants constitute con-
spracy." Mr.. Rand added.
"On or about August 1. 1914. DR..
I3uenz received from his home office
in Germany. orders by cable, directing
him to charter number of steamships
here, place provisions. coal and other
supplies aboard and send them to a
designated place in the Atlantic. there
to await the appearance of German
warships to which the supplies We're to
be delivered. He was acting on those
Legitimate orders in chartering these
vessels