The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-02
HAMBURG LINE
CASE WILL GO
TO JURY TODAY
Counsel Will be Heard and
Judge Howe Will Then
Charge the Jury
CAPT. BOY-ED rs
AGAIN MENTIONED
Defendants Admit Shipping
Goods, But Claim No In.
tcntion to Defraud
CAPT. BOY-ED rs
AGAIN MENTIONED
81 ASSOCIATED PRESS.


New York, Dec. THE summing
up of counsel and Federal Judge
Howe's charge to the jury Is all that
remains to end the trial Of the Ham
burg-American officials, charged with
conspiracy in sending supplies to the
German warships in the Atlantic and
Pacific at beginning Of war. The four
defendants, DR.. Karl Buenz, Director
George hotter and Superintendent
Adolph Hachnesiter purchasing agent
Of the neutrality-suspicious. and Joseph
Poppinghaus, who sailed as super
cargo on the steamship Berwind and
delivered goods. off the Island Of Trim
dad, testified today to substantially
the same facts.
hotter and Hachmeister said they
bought goods and cleared the ships
Hander DR.. Ruenz's instructions, he ia
turn actfng dnder an agreement be-
tween the Hamburg-American and
German government. Poppinghaus
acted on Kotter's directions, although
the four said they had no Intention
of defrauding the United States, all
admitted the line received one mil
lion and half from the German gov
eminent and spent it.
Captain Boy-Ed, the German naval
attache, was again referred to as
taking part in the financial transac-
tions.
AGREEMENT is EXHIBITED.
The abstract Of the Hamburg
American lines agreement with the
German government, whereby the
former agreed to supply German
cruisers at sea with coal and supplies
in neutral ships sailing from Ameri.
can ports early in the war, hal
passed into the keeping Of the Ger.
man embassy at Washington.
DR.. Karl Buenz, managing director
Of the line, so testified today in hi
trial--and that of three other lint
officials and employes-on charges o.
conspiracy in the United States dis
trict court here.
DR.. Buenz testified that all CORE
spondence on the subject by letter o.
acable, likewise has formally beef
turned over to the German govern
ment through the embassy. Thu
cablegrams, it was said, were in tn,
4 German naval code and were removed
= to the embassy when it was though
there was danger of their becomin,
public, through this trial, and thu
revealing to England, France an.
Russia, the key to the German secre
code.
Notwithstanding the severance O
the German cables to America by tn,
British, the Hamburg-American lin
was In constant cable communication
with Germany, DIR. Buenz testified
These cablegrams told DR.. Buen
where to send ships to meet German
cruisers.
The government objected to Dl
Buenz's testimony concerning the alb
stract of the agreement and the cable
I; grams relating to the dispatch Of re
7 lief ships. Roger B. Wood, Unite
States district attorney, contende
that the documents were availabl
and that they should be brought int
the court room. He was upheld b
Judge Howe and DIR. Buenz was NO
permitted to tell their contents.
\ William Rand, Jr., counsel for tn
kdefense, sought to have the content
placed before the jury as DR.. Buen
remembered them.
1--WE are willing to show you tn
translations," Mr.. Rand said. ssW
cannot show you the originals. In til
first place, we couldn't get them frol
the German embassy if we wanted t,
any more than could the Unite
States government. They are sal
and fast in Germany's keeping, 9
much in Germany as if they were
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