New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-20
ADMIT SHIP PLOT
LINKING BOY-ED
WITH BIG FUND
Officials of Hamburg Line
Say War Justified Aid
to Raiders.
NUBER HEMMED IN
BY FEDERAL EVIDENCE
Spies Seek to Bring DR.. Goricar
Back to TeutOns-BankerS
Here Suspected.

The indictment of Alexander Won
Nuber de Pereked, the Austro-Hun-
garian Consul General of New York,
and demand for the recall of Captain
Carl Boyd, naval attache of the Ger
man Embassy, are likely to be the
next open acts of the United States
government in its efforts to end the
activities of the Teutonic propagandists
in this country.
The dismissal of Captain Boyd Is
said TO be practically decided upon.
That ne was part and parcel OF the
plot to coal and supply German war
ships in the North and South Atlantic,
an offence for which Karl Buenz, man
aging director of the Hamburg Ameri-
can Line, and other officials OF the line
were indicted, the government Is pre-
pared to prove when the trial of Buenz
and his associates begins Monday IN
the Federal Court.
Knowing of the governments strong
case and in an effort 10 keep out OF
the trial testimony relating to Boy-Ed's
activities. William Rand, IT,, of the law
firm of Jerome, Rand &-Kresel. counsel
for Buenz and his associates, has
offered II. Snowden Marshall, United
States District Attorney in charge OF
the prosecution of the Hamburg Ameri-
can officials, to concede the following
facts:
That s750,O00 was sent by the Ger
man government to this country TO
charter golfers to supply German war
ships in the North and South Atlantic
with coal and food stuffs;
That the money vas so used, and that
Captain Boyd conferred with Buenz
and George hotter, superintendent o.
the Hamburg American Line, in the
carrying out of the plan.
No Crime, Is Defence.
The defence offered by Buenz and
his associates will be that the acts for
which they are indicted is not an OIL
fence against the United States ana
do not constitute a conspiracy agalhSII,
the United States. The defence VIII
contend that the acts were only Of
fences against the Allies-a'cts of war
and therefore do not constitute
crime.
The government will contend that
the acts described in the indictment
are a criminal offence, and that IN Cd
tanning clearance papers for the YES
sells chartered by Buenz and his asso-
ciates. with the knowledge OF Captain
Boy-Ed. fraud was committed against
the United States, and that even II the
contention of the defence was well
founded, which the. government Will
not concede, the defendants made the
United States an unwilling party to
fraud.
The only thing that will prevent the
indictment of Consul General Won
Nuber, it was said yesterday, for his
alleged completely in passport frauds
will be word from Washington.
The evidence against Won Nuber, part
of which has been furnished by DR..
joseph Goricar, a former Austro-Hun-
carian Consul, may be presented to the
Federal grand jury on Monday. The
evidence in the possession of the gov
eminent authorities involves other
members of the German and Austro-
Hungarian diplomatic corps, but some
of them are members of embassies, and
as such are immune from indictments
In the chapter on Privileges and I'M
munities of Diplomats, Page 271, Vol
ume .. of the Cyclopedia of Law and
Procedure, it says:
"a consul Is not entitled, by virtue
of his Office merely, to the immunity OF
a foreign minister, but is subject
civilly and criminally, like other resi-.
dents. to the tribunals of the country in
which he resides"
Teuton Spies Active.
In the last two weeks the activities
of German and Austro- Hungarian spies
have been directed in following United
States Secret Service men and agents
of the Department of Justice.
1t was said by a government oft1clal
Yesterday that strenuous efforts have
been made by these spies to bring Or.
Goricar over to the side of the Central
Powers.
Interesting developments in the case
of Andrew D. Meloy, the promoter OF
Mexican enterprises, who was indicted
with Franz Rntelen, lieutenant cap
tain in the German navy, for passport
frauds, are expected within few
days. -, ~
Meloy is now bargaining with the
government, and officials connected with
his prosecution believe that he can
throw light on an alleged Teutonic plot
70 foment continuous strife in Mexico.
The government already has informa-
ton that to further this plot S3O,0OO,-
600 was sent 70 this country, and that
when the truth can be got into evidence
the indictment of several New YORK
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