The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-24
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$75O,OOO GERMAN FUND

box the previous day. One of these
John J. Totten. a real estate dealer Of
$40 West Forty-second street-who had
said that his wife was born of German
parents that her father lives in tho
same house with the talesmAn-was
dropped yesterday.
Three More for jury.
The three men whose acceptance yes
terday completed the jury were +. w.
Bur Ike. a retired business man Of SIS
IT. AIMS avenue. whose parents were
Irish Edgar Lane. an accountant q
106 West 1854 street, an American. and
John J.. Hollywood. a buyer. living a
332 Seneca avenue. Mount Vernon, also
an American. No men OF German birth
or descent were accepted from the COM.
paratively great number Of men 81.
amined.
Mr.. Wood began tho Governments
case by obtaining from Mr..
wrigley which showed that the team
ship broker had had a conversation with
John II. Cans. now dead. a year ago last
summer which resulted In Mr.. Wrigley
chartering to the Hamburg-American
Line the Lorenzo and four other vessels
which figure In the conspiracy charges.
Stress was laid by the Government upon
the fact. so Mr.. wrigley said, and an in
demnity bond was required Of the Ham
burg- American Line when they char
tered the vessels.
Mr.. Kulenkampff followed Mr.. wrigley
to the stand. The witness said hat on
August s. 1914. he had gone TO the Ham
burg American offices In answer to a
telephone request. There he conferred
with Mr.. Cans, a shipping man DR..
Buenz. Mr.. Hachmeister and George
koetter.
Because urgently requested to do so
10y the Hamburg american officials, Mr..
~kulenkampff said he had hurried to the
| Custom House just before closing hours
and had signed the manifests INC other
wise had attended to the clearing Of the
Lorenzo and Berwind on the supposition
that the Hamburg-American people
wished 70 send of the two vessels With
coal that night for South American
ports.
No one had told him N vessels were
not going to the ports named, he said. IN
reply to Mr.. Woods questions Then
came the matter OF the $3.50. 900. thereby
bringing the name Of Capt. Boy-Ed into
the proceedings.
Visited By Capt. Boy-Ed.
Capt. Boy-Ed came to my office
Mr.. Kulenkampff testified directly
shortly after I received the $3.50. 900 In
September. 1914. The money. Capt
Boy-Ed told me. was for him. and tha,
l would get the prope instructions &c
that effect. SO later soine one telephoned
and told me to hold the money for the
disposal Of Capt. Boy-Ed. l deposited
the money in different banks. as Capt
Boy-Ed told me-"
/. Mr.. K~ulenkampn then gave dates ant
amounts of money he had sent to differ
ent ports of the United States. Finally
there was a balance OF $3.50, 900 on hanC
and out OF this balance he paid a par
to the Hamburg-American Linz here ant
abroad.
AT whose orders?' Mr.. Wood asked.
Capt. Boy-Ed's." the witness an
swered.
Franklin D.. Mooney. who In August
1914, was vice-president of the New Yorl
and Porto Rico Steamship Company
owners OF the Berwind and Lorenzo
testified next Az to letters presented b,
Hamburg-American supercargoes to tn,
shippers Of the vessels owned by MI
Moneys firm and chartered by tn,
Hainburg-An,erican. in which the skip
pers were informed that they must no
|, question the orders OF the supercargoe
. once the vessels had got to sea.
A master s~tevedore. Carmilo Pelle
grlno, testified that not only coal Ia
been loaded upon the Berwind and Lo
renzo here. Richard Schanbart, an &c