The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-16
Kienzle Not Guilty
of Criminal Act In
u. M. G. Co. Activities
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Wuertenburg, Germany. In one of his
many statements Fay has told the
Federal authorities he was shown
Germany.
In his affidavit KienzIe says the
letter to his father was intended for
publication in Germany. The letter
I tells of the enormous shipments of
munitions to the Allies A COPY is
attached to the AFFIDAVIT.
Other exhibits are photographs of
dunn dunn bullets and photographs IL
Illustrating the terrible wounds in
f1icted upon German soldiers by the
dum-dums.
Kfenzle's statement reads in part
as follows.
81 found among other things that
on October 20, 1915, United States
letters patent No. 1,114.356 were is
sued to Frank O. Hoagland, of Bridge
port, Conn.,, assignor to Union Metal
lie Cartridge CO., corporation of
Connecticut. entitled mushroom bull
let
.HThe bullet. thus patented is what
is known as 4 sdum-dum' bullet. My
Investigation satisfied me that the
Union Metallic Cartridge Co. OF
Bridgeport was manufacturing tn csc
bullets and supplying the allies there
with I subsequently found as the re-
suit of my investigations that the said
Union Metallic Cartridge Co. was
manufacturing bullet shown ION a
photograph hereto annexed which I
verify believe also to be q durn-dun
bullet because tie middle part is made
of soft metal which: results in the
breaking of a bullet in a body. there
by producing. as shown by Roentgen
rays photographs hereto annexed9,
terrible wounds. which the ordinary
s-5.sas,. ~ &c. Il
not produce.
sarhat the Union, Metallic Cartridge
Co.~was supplying such bullets to
Great Britain appears from the pho
tographs hereto annexed The large
lefthaTld figure shows the bottom of
the cartridge, the figures Lee above.
shows that it was made for Great
Britain for use IN the Lee-Enfeld
rife. The figure sos below shows the
calibre The small righthand figure
shows the trade-markNU upon the bull
let Of the Union Metallic Cartridge
Co, this clearly identifying this terri
Bile Instruments being manufactured
| by the said Unio7 Metallic Cartridge
Co. for Great Britain
ST gathered a mass of material
on this subject which was subsequent
Iy formulated Into statement which
was submitted to the Secretary OF
state of the United States with the.
view of stopping the manufacture and
traffic of these terrible engines of war.
This was the extent of the propaganda
| in which ] was engaged. With it
none of the other defendants nave
anything to do.
1T am perfectly willing to answer
| for my own acts, which, as already
stated, claim We're coAamendable in
stead of criminal. But I most, strenu-
ously object to being involved in the
| acts of others over which never had
anv control, with whom had no con-
nection and whose defense must nat
1,raIlv be entirely different from
mine; and the evidence against whom,
/ so far as I can judge from newspaper
accounts, would simply tend to preju-
dice the jury against all the defend
ants
| This same charge was made Dec.
I9. 1914. by the German Embassy at
washington. Frank o. Hoagland was
then works manager OF the Union Me-
ltailic Cartridge Co. He has left since.
At that time he denied the charge.
els it true that your firm is max
| ing -dum-dum' bu11ets?'' he was asked
at that time
THAT matter, as what might say at
this time will be INTERESTINGLY he
answered.
Asked if his company was shipping
bullets to Canada, as charged, he per-
sisted that he wished to say nothing
beyond that the charges are not true
He gave the impression that the COM
pany had an explanation of merit but
feared misconstruction on thep art of
the public.
| vice-president Marshall and Mrs.
Marshall have presented Navajo In
lGian blanket to President Wilson and
Mrs. Gait as a wedding gift.