Arizona republican., 1915-11-24
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(Continued from Page One) American line offices here on the af- ternoon of August 5, 1914, and there had met Dr. Buenz, John H. Cans, now dead; Kotter and Hachmeister. They had told him that they wanted him to clear two American steamers, the Lorenzo and the Berwind, loaded with coal with all possible speed-that af- ternoon. It then lacked only half an hour of closing time at the customs house and Kulenhampff hesitated to do as they asked, because he was not in the custom of clearing ships.
 They told me- he said, that they did not want the -Hamburg-American line to appear in the transaction" Af- ter a barley of several minutes, during which Kulenkampff told them he had 'a brother in business in Buenos Aires, he decided that he would accommodate them and swear to the clearance man ifests, giving his name as shipper and his brother in Buenos Aires as the con signee. Accordingly he went to the customs house and did so and the vessels sailed without delay, the Ser wind that evening and the Lorenzo the next day.
 It developed from stories told on the stand by succeeding witnesses. that Captain Edward F,alkenberg. of the Berwind had likewise sworn to a manifest giving the shipment aboard the vessel as coal, and that a supple mental manifest was not made until the next day to cover certain eases of povisions and oils which a gang of steveodores had been loading on the Berwind all day and night. For swear ing falsely to the manifest it devel- oped, Captain Falkenberg was fined S50o by the port authorities here last December. This money was paid in the Captains behalf. by the New York and Porto Rico Steamship company, the Berwinds owners.
 And was the $500 repaid too?" MT. Wood asked Franklin D. Mooney, president of the company.
 'It was" MT. Mooney testified. ''It came to us through our attorneys. understand they received it from the Hamburg American line"
 MT. Mooney and another official of the steamship company testified that the sudden calamity of war had made it impossible to obtain insurance on their steamers: the Berwind and the Lorenzo, at the time they were charted to the Hamburg American line. Ac- cordingly an indemnity bond was fur nished by the Hamburg American line for S350,000 in the case of the Lorenzo and for s260,1 in the case of the Berwind. The Hamburg American line went on the bond with two sureties- Edward J. Berwind and John A. Der wind, millionaire coal operators.
 This was in case anything should happen it was testified. in case the borrowed steamers should not be de i livered back to us.
 Both steamers were seized by the 1 entente allies warships, it developed The Berwind came back home after l lcng proceedings, but the Lorenzo was confiseated and sold under prize court orders.
 'And did you get her full value. as set forth in the indemnity bond?" MT Wood asked Richard D. Wrigley of the firm which owned the Lorenzo. i we did,~ he replied.
 Later MT. Wood asked MT. Mooney from whom the s35O.OOO was received
 We got it through our attorneys he said. T understand it came iron the Hamburg American line" Edgar J. Berwind. head of the coa pany bearing his name. testified tha his firm had sold coal to the Ham | burg-American line for more than 8 years, and that he did not hesitate tt become a surety on the bond whel i requested.
 Both the Lorenzo and the Berwind witnesses testified sailed with super
 cargocs, placed aboard by the Ham
 burg American line. The supercar
 goes, the government charges, carrie
 sealed instructions to be opened afte
 sailing in the case of all sixteen ship
 on which the charges are based and
 it is alleged, in some cases these in
 structions were opened and the super
 cargo assumed command before tn
 steamer had passed out beyond tn
 three mile limit over which the Unite
 States exercises jurisdiction.
 Although the governments witnesse
 today testified mostly concerning tn
 Berwind and Lorenzo. the names C
 other steamers sent from America
 ports on the same errand figured i
 some of the testimony. There was lit
 tie variance except as to sailing date and destinations of any of these yes
 sels.