Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-24
Conspiracy Case
 Of Hamburg Line
TO SEND SUPPLIES TO GERMAN
 MEN-oF-WAR
FEDERAL COURT TRIAL
One Witness swore That Captain Boy-Ed Directed Expenditure of Approximately s75o,oOo for the the Purpose.

FurPoSe.
 New York, Nov. 2s.-In the alleged | conspiracy on the part of several of- ficials of the Hamburg American steamship line to deceive and defraud the United States by sending neutral relief ships with coal and other sup plies to German men, of-war, Captain K Boy-Ed, German naval attache, with headquarters at the German em- bassy in Washington, played a lead ing role, according to witnesses who | testified in the federal court here to- day.
 Captain Boy-Ed Directed Expenditures One of these witnesses swore that Captain Boy-Ed personally directed the expenditure Of approximately S750, 900, which, unsolicited and unexpected, had | been deposited to the witnesses credit | in a New York banking house early | in September, 1914 Of this money, the witness testified $350,000 was tel egraphed to the Navada National bank ! at San Francisco in one lump sum, $213,000 was paid in several amounts to the North German-Lloyd steamship line here; about 5000 to the Ham | burg-American line here and by cable | money order in Hamburg and some | of the remainder was still on hand. All these disbursements, the witness | asserted, were made by order of Cap | tain Boy-Ed.
 Rode Rouqhshod Over Treaties. The witness, Gustive B. KuIen- | kampn, German importer and ex- porter with offices here, and others, | testified in the trial of Dr. Karl Buenz. l Adolph Hachmeister, George Kotter and Joseph Poppinghaus, all officials l of the Hamburg g-American line, who are charged with conspiracy in having | directed the loading and dispatching | of sixteen vessels to the relief of half a dozen or more German warships iso- lated from supplies in the Atlantic and Pacific The testimony, which | opened the governments case, follow | ed a, short address to the jury by Rodger B. Wood, assistant United States district attorney, in which MT.
 Wood said the government would show | that the defendants rode roughshod over the laws and treaties of the | United States as contemptuously as if those laws and treaties had been
 mere scraps of paper."s-----~.------s
 concede Certain Charges.
 William Rand. counsel for the de- | fendants, offered to concede certain | charges of the government involving | 12 steamers and in his concession ad- mitted that Dr. Buenz and his assist ants had sent out the vessels as l charged to meet German warships In the Atlantic and deliver their supplies. I MT. Rand said that in sending out | the ships his clients were acting upon Legitimate orders which came to them i by cable from the office of the com pany in Hamburg. But the government lawyers rejected the concession and sought to prove their case out of the | mouths of witnesses.
 The defense is not willing to ad- init the facts; it is trying to smother them" was MT. Woods retort to MT. | Bands offer.
 s2,ooo,ooo to Supply German Warships. I led
 Rand, smilingly, i've are willing to ad- init that S7500U0 has been spent as the government is trying so hard to prove. Why We are willing to go D.uch | farther that-we will admit that S2,- | 000,0 of German money was spent | in chartering and supplying vessels for relief of German warships.' And how much moreT' asked MT. Wood
 That is all I know of," was the reply. But, admitting the facts, we | do not admit the intent to receive or defraud as charged in the indict- ment."
 kuIenkamEff's Story. Kulenkampfrs story on the witness stand was that he had been summoned
 by telephone to the Hamburg -Amer1- | can line offices here on the afternoon of August 5, 1914, and had met pr. and Hachmeister. They had told him that they wanted him to clear two | American steamers, the Lorenzo and | the Berwind, loaded with coal with all possible speed-that afternoon. It then lacked but half an hour of clos | ing time at the customs house and | Kulenkampf hesitated to do as they asked, because he was not in the GUS tom of clearing ships.
 They told me-" he said. that they l didn't want the Hamburg-American line to appear in the transaction"
 Swore to Clearance Manifest.
 After a barley of several minutes, 1 during which Kulenkampff told them he had a brother in this business in
 Buenos Aires, he decided he would assist them and swear to the clearance manifest, giving his name as shipper
 and his brother in Buenos Aires as the consignee. Accordingly he went to the 1 custom house and did so and the yes sels sailed without delay. the Berwind that evening and the Lorenzo the next day.
 l $500 for False Manifest 1 It developed from stories told on the ] stand by witnesses that Captain Ed ward Falkenberg of the Berwind had !. likewise sworn to a manifest, giving the shipment aboard the vessel as coal i and that a supplemental manifest was
 not made till the next day to cover l certain cases of provisions and oils which a gang of stevedores had been
 loading on the Berwind all day and | night. For swearing falsely to the
 manifest, it developed, Captain FaIken-
 berg was fined $500 by the port au-
 thorities here last December. This
 money was paid, in the captains be-
 half, by the New York and Porto Rico Steamship company, the Berwind's | owners.
 And was the $500 repaid to you ?" | MT. Wood asked Franklin D. Mooney, | president of the company.
 Tt was" Mir. Mooney testified. 'It | came to us through out attorneys. 1