Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-15

hotel" The intention was to get Won
Bricken to send on an answer. This
meaning of this post card was 70
show him that on the same page al
SO was this report of a cave-in, in the
tunnel / sent this post card to
Jesse Miller. was paid by the Can
adian authorities my expenses as
promised in the telegram
Won Brincken always signed his
letters Jack and they were mostly
forwarded by c. c. Crowley, a former
Railway company, but he is now and
at the time was employed as secret
agent by the German CONSUL in san
Francisco. AS 1 understand 1T, Crow
ley had orders to send these tele-
grams from Oakland and as a matter
of fact 1 received one telegram from
Oakland. When came to San Fran
cisco it was on a Sunday night !
saw Won Brincken next morning and
he told me that he had answered, by
telegram my post card as follows:
Would like to send some flowers &c
your wife, but do not know her ad-
dress" Meaning that he wanted the
address of my wife to send there a
ed to me and then and there handed
me two hundred dollars $4,000 in
United States greenbacks and told me
to come up to the Office of the German
consulate and get the balance. as he
wanted Mr.. Bopp, the German consul,
to take some responsibility in this
matter himself.
When 1 came up to the office of the
German consulate / was let into the
private Office of Mr.. Bopp. the German
consul, where were present Mr. Won
Shack, the German vice consul. the
said Won Brincken and Mr.. Franz
Bopp, the German consul himself
They asked me to tell my story, show
ing me a map of British Columbia.
made objection to doing that in the
three people and Mr. Bopp. the Ger
man consul, Indignantly rose up and
said all three were sworn in and that
/ could rely, without any fear tell
what / had done for the consul and
the fatherland. 1 then told him what
1 had done in Canada Our CONVERSE
tions with the consul were always in
German.
related my story as it was written
out for me by the divisional engineer
of the Canadian Pacific company and,
not satisfied with my story, they
wanted to get some further proof.
had already given them the four
copies of the different Vancouver pa
pers which l brought with me and as
l am slightly acquainted with the
Dutch vice consul, Mr.. Van Roggen,
in Vancouver, B. c., 1 wrote a letter
to this gentleman of the following
tenor:
Asking him to inquire of the general
superintendent of the Canadian Pa
cif1c company why a car of freight
which l expected from the east had
not arrived and to kindly wire me at
my expense. In the meantime / wired
Mr.. Orchard to send me the following
telegram:
Superintendent refuses information.
Find out. however, that freight has
been delayed eleven days on account
| of accident.
CSigned) 'V. r."
1 received this telegram at the Pal
| ace hatel via Postal Telegraph COM
| pany, and armed with this telegram I
went to see the German consul. It
must be here stated that Mr.. Bopp,
the German consul, wrote himself to
| Mr.. Van Roggen. l only furnished the
! address. With this gentleman / went
| to see the German consul, Mr.. Bopp,
| who ordered the vice consul, Mr.. Won
| Setback, to pay me the additional ex-
pense of three hundred dollars $4,000
| travelling expenses, which made five
! hundred dollars ($500) total I
| agreed that L would be satisfied with
seventeen hundred and fifty dollars
| (S1,75O) for my services in blowing up
/ the tunnel instead of the three thou
| sand dollars $4,000 as was first
| agreed upon, and I was promised the
| money the next day.
Won Bricken did not pay me. how
| ever, the next day, so / wrote little
| note to the German consul in which /
| stated that it would not be in his in
| terest to let me wait any longer and
| that unless l got settlement before
| next day at o'clock our relations
/ would not be any more friendly. Then
| Won Brincken, the next day, handed
a letter to a man by the name of Els
| enhuth, which man handed the letter
| to me at the Palace hotel. The con-
tents of this letter was substantially
as follows:
| "Will settle this afternoon. Jack"
| Written in Won Brincken's handwrit-
| ing. This letter l sent to the author
| tiles in Canada. know Won Brinck-
ems handwriting very well and have
| Brincken that afternoon and he
| brought seventeen hundred and fifty
dollars (s1,75O) in greenbacks
Won Brincken had made arrange
| ments with me that he should get a
| certain portion of the money from me
and 1 was paid fifteen hundred dol
lars Q,500) and two hundred ard fifty
(S250) he got himself. He retained
i that amount. Won Brincken stated
that I had to sign a receipt, but that
as the amount was rather high they
the receipt for secret service work
and travelling expenses and the receipt
was for seven hundred dollars (S700) }.
When I asked about this he said
they could easily account for the other
amount and that if anybody wanted
to prove our relationship (their rela-
| lions with mel we could say 1 was in
| the secret service. Won Brincken also
/ told me that a man with one of the
4 steamship companies by the name of
1 Capelle was trying to find out about
4 he Of 20 he