New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-15

here August 12, 1915, and contained a
clipping telling Of 80 per cent wage
increase to employees Of the Atna
works. The letter wa. without pune
tuation ard read:
al. J. s.: Enclosed find clipping,
this stuff goes to the ---,l am sure
they here will give five hundred for
each and newspaper clippings and dis
patches to show what do you think
Ishpemng and outside Gary, Indiana,
let we hear from you, nothing else
new"
300 Letters Found.
In all. about 300 letters and kilograms
passing between the alleged conspira-
tors are said to have been obtained by
Federal officials
Mrs. Margaret Cornell, indicted yes
terday after she had been kept under
bail bond Of 81 900 for "A week. simply
as a witness, was alleged TO have been
the go-between between Won Brincken
and Crowley.
Possession Of evidence which Federal
officials declare TO be "the most vital
&c the case Of any yet discovered" be-
came known to-day through the de-
tailed report Of testimony alleged 10
have been given by Johannes Henrikus
van Koolbergen, now IN Canada.
Van Koolborgen, it was learned, was
| the corroborating witness upon whom
/ the government depended 10 a consider
] able degree 10 support the indictments
returned yesterday. According TO re-
/ ports, he was alleged to have repre-
| sentcd TO agents of the Department of
! Justice that a German ofIiciai here
I employed him 10 act in violation of
the neutrality laws and that Won
Brincken, whom he knew during the
Boer war, hired him to make clock
work bombs in thermos bottles at 500
a bomb, with bonus for each ship de-
stroyed.
The allegation is made that Van
koolbergen was employed 20 dynamite
a railroad trestle in Canada over which
supply trains passed and that he was
paid $3.50 by Won Brincken and $500
by a representative of the German
government at the German Consulate
for expenses when he produced clip
/ pings from Canadian newspapers 10
show the trestle had been destroyed.
Canadians Planned Trap.
Van Koolbergen also is said TO have
received Sl,750 in payment for SER
. Wees OF winch SLOO went 10 Won
I Brincken. The newspaper stories
which he produced. il was said, were
ordered printed by officials of the Ca
madam government who were directing
Van Koolbergen's activities in an e.
fort TO trap the German agents IN the
United States. Every detail of the
agents meetings with German officials
with corroborating evidence. was al
legged in this manner to have been Civ
en- 70 United States officials.
Van Koolbergen. II was stated un-
officially at Washington. had been To-
Gated. Officials here said he probably
would be brought here under a detain-
or warrant as a witness.
One bomb was delivered at the Ger
man Consulate here, according TO Van
Koolbergen, in the presence OF Won
Brincken and an official. who examined
ii and ordered more. Later this order
was countermanded. with a suggestion
that the agent wait until excitement
over bomb plots in the East subsided.
Marquette, Nj en-. Dec. 14-Nelsor
Van Brunt, manager Of the lshpeminl
branch Of the Htna Explosives Com
pany. said to-day that there was "a
grounds for conspring 70 cause an *.
plosion in the Atna mills. He said
that the plant had no war orders
"Our business ia confined 20 manufact'
uring powder for mining purposes hC
said.