The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-24
SHIP PLOT MONEY
SPENT ON ORDER
Of CAPT. BOY-ED
Witnesses in Conspiracy Gases
Account for $75O,000
CLAIM BUSINESS LEGITIMATE
AlIese Twelve Vessels were Sent
with Supplies to German Warships
Operating in Atlantic.
CLAIM BUSINESS LEGITIMATE

| New York Nov. 23-ln the alleged
conspiracy TO deceive and defraud
the United States by sending sixteen
relief ships with coal and Other sup
plies to German myn-of-war in the Al.
lantic and Pacific at the beginning OF
the war, Captain X Boy-Ed. German
naval attache, with headquarters at
the German embassy in Washington.
played a leading role. according to
witnesses in federal court here to-
day in the trial OF Or. Karl Buenz,
Adolph Hachmeister, George Kotter
and Joseph Poppinghaus The de-
iendants, all officials Of the Hamburg
American line are charged with the
alleged conspiracy
One witness Gustav b Nnien-
kampif, a German importer and eX-
porter with Offices here, swcre Cap
tain Boy-Ed persc cnally directed the
expenditure Of Approximately $750,000
which unsolicited and unexpected had
been deposited to the Witness credit
in a New York banking house early
in September, 1914.
OF this money. KulenkampG testi-
fed, $350,000 was telegcaphed to the
Nevada National bank at San Fran
cisco in one sum $2l3,0oO was paid
Ia several amounts to the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship line here.
about S75,OOO to the HamDurg-Ameri.
can line here and by cable money or
der in Hamburg. and some OF the re-
mauder was still on hand an these
disbursements, Kulenkampff assert,
ed were made by order OF Captain
Boy Ed.
The testimony given 10y Kulon-
kampff and other witnesses virtually
opened the governments case and fol
lowed a short address to the pury by
Roger b. Wood, United States assist
ant district attorney, in which Mr.
Wood said the government would
show the defendants rode roughshod
ana coutemptuously over the laws
and treaties OF the United States as
though these laws and treaties had
been mere scraps of paper"
William Rand. counsel for the de
fendants, offered to concede certain
charges Of the government involving
twelve steamships and in his conces-
sion admitted Dr. Buenz and his as
sociates had sent out the vessels as
charged TO meet German warships in
the Atlantic and deliver their sup
plies. Mr. Rand said that in so send
ing the ships forth his clients were
acting upon legitimate orders which
came to them by cable form the home
Office OF the company in Hamburg.
The government lawyers rejected
the concession and sought to prove
their case out Of the mouths OF wit
nesges.
THE defense is not willing to al
NIT the facts; IL is trying to smother
them, was Mr. Woods retort to Mr.
Bands offer.
Quite the contrary" replied Mr.
Rand, smiling I'VE are willing to
admit $75O,0OO has been spent as the
government is trying so hard to
prove We are willing to 90 much
further than that-we viii admit p
100000 of German money was spent
in chartering and supplying vessels
for relief Of German warships"
And how much more?' asked MIR
Wood.
"That is all know Of" was the re-
ply. But admitting the facts, we do
not admit the intent to deceive or de.
fraud as charged in the Indictment" ="