The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
AMERICAN VESSELS USED FOR SUPPLYING
 GERMAN WARSH|PS
Prosecution Traces Strange Voyage of the Marina
 Quesada
NORTH GERMAN-LEOYD
 LINE SEEMS INVOLVED
Officials of Hamburg Line, However, Admit Chartering 12 Vessels toSup- ply WarshiT Connection
 With oues' 2 sy'se Denied

with Quesi wage Denied
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 New York, 2 # 24.-Twice again man naval. ssSasSs G Sss int. into Gs' the testimony of . ses at the trial of Karl Buenz, Hochmeister, Joseph Poppinhaus .orge Kotter of the Eamburg-A q line, accused of con spiracy to deceive and defraud the United States government by dispatching relief shlps with supplies to German cruisers in the Atlantic and Pacific at the begin ming of the war.
 The first occasion related to a telegram sent December 16 1914, by H. Suhren, captain of the Costa Rican steamer Ma rina Quesada, to Hochmeister, advising him that the steamer was sailing that afternoon and that Suhren, needing money, had drawn on him for 5000. Hoch- meister was told to take the matter to room sol, at Il Broadway, and Roger B. Wood, for the government brought out that this was the room which Captain Boy-Ed occupied as his New York head quarters.
 The second time that Captain Boy-E S name was mentioned it was likewise brought in by one of Captain Suhren's telegrams. This message was addressed to Philip Volz. care Nordmann. room sol. Il Broadway" and related to the Quesada's contemplated departure.
 LLOYD LINE INVOLVED
 Mir. Wood informed the court that Mir Volz. thus addressed, was the Baltimore agent of the North German-Lloyd, which operated, till the war began. many trans atlantic vessels under the German flag It was possible, MT. Wood added, that the North German-Lloyd was among the other conspirators unknown to the grand jury mentioned in the indictment
 After having established that the de- fendants had succeeded in lodging coal and supplies aboard at least two of a fleet of five German warships and con- voys in the Atlantic in September 1914 Ny means of the Berwind,s an American ship. the government proceeded to deal with the Marina Quesada, which cleared from Newport News. December 1S, 1914, for Valparaiso, Chile, and the Thor, which cleared August for Buenos Aires The government charges that they were two Of the 18 boats chartered by the de- fendants on their alleged unlawful prac- tice.
 While the defendants admit that they chartered 12 steamers for the purpose charged by the government. denying in their confessions that by doing so they were guilty of conspiracy. they do not ad- init that they had anything to do with the Quesada On the contrary, William Rand, their counsel, announced that his clients had nothing whatever to do with this vessel, and strenuously opposed all testimony concerning her. The govern ment sought to prove their contention by the testimony of Norman Hamilton, col lector of the port of Norfolk Newport News; Elliott M. Parker, connected with the Pocohontas Fuel company at New port News and John F. Harper of Nor folk. fs
 QUESADA'S VOYAGE
 From their testimony it developed that the Quesada was formerly the Norwegian steamer Gladstone, and that she changed her colors after the war started. She sailed on clearance granted by MT. Hamilton after she had been tied up for sometime at Newport News and Norfolk. Her manifest stated that she was load ed with coal. but the government sought to show that she also had provisions aboard. Testimony on this point was in complete at adjournment.
 The steamer Thor was granted clear ance by MT. Hamilton after Mcintyre had sworn to her manifest. This simply de- tailed coal as sher cargo and gave her destination. Mcintyre said he was in- formed that her cargo was coal from Hasler Bros, shipping agents. Later 1t developed that she had aboard s370o worth of provisions and stores paid for by Rand admitted.
 Mcintyre said he had been deceived, and that the falsity of his oath was un- witting. There was nothing to show that Hasler Bros, either, knew that she had stores aboard. Conector Hamilton, asked if he would have cleared her had her manifest detailed these stores and had he known she was bound for German ships at sea, replied:
 T would have ~enied clearance and in- stituted proceedings against her master for taking false oath"
 MT. Hamilton was asked by counsel for the defensesif the British vice consuls at Norfolk and Newport News had not come to him with their information and fears and suspicious and demanded that he do what they termed his duty in pre- venting supplies from leaving port for German warships at sea.
 .'There was no demand from the British vice consul at Norfolk he replied ."rhere were some demands from the Brit isll vice consul at Newport News. con sidered these irhpertinent paid them no attention and gave the vice consul no information"