New Britain herald., 1915-11-23
ATTORNEY FOR us. CHARGES TEUTON
 NAVAL ATTACHE
Will Prove That Large Amount Of Money Was Used for ProViS-
 ioning German Warships
CONSPIRACY EXTENDED
 OVER WHOLE COUNTRY

1 VIun UlVlIE UUUNlnI 1 Sixteen or Seventeen Ships Used by Defendants to Carry Supplies of All Kinds With Supercargoes Sailing Under Sealed Orders-Signed Let
 ters in Evidcnce.-Sauerkrau in
 Cargo.
 New York, Nov. 23-Captain K. Boy-Ed, German naval attache, was the directing head under whom was spent $75O,0O0 in chartering ana supplying neutral steamers with coal and provisions for German men-of- war in the Atlantic and Pacific, in August, 1914, the government for mally charged-and asserted that it was prepared to prove the charge-in the opening today of the trial, on charges of conspiracy, of Dr. Karl Ruenz, managing director of the Ham burg American Line, and three of his subordinates.
 Roger B. Wood, assistant United States district attorney in charge of the prosecution, in so declaring, stated that entire sum was under the per sonal direction of Captain Boy-Ed and that from $5O0,0OO to $60O,O00 of the amount was spent in San Francisco in chartering vessels and obtaining sup plies for the German warships Liepzig and, perhaps, the Dresden.
 This, the government charges, was part of a conspiracy that extended from New York and Philadelphia to New Orleans and San Francisco, in which German money was spent by the million and in which the defen- dants Were the leading characters In the performance of this alleged conspiracy, MT. Wood said, the de- fendants Rode roughshod over the laws and treaties of the United States as contemptuously as if those laws and treaties had been mere scraps of paper"
 , Counsel Admits.
 William Rand, Jr, counsel for the defense, admitted that the defendants had. chartered and supplied twelve ships which sailed away from Ameri- can ports for the relief of the Ger man men-of-war In so doing, MT. Rand asserted, the defendants acted upon orders received by cable from Germany.
 "On or about August 1, 1914,' MT. Rand said, Karl Buenz received di- rections by cable from the home office in Hamburg to send ships laden with coal, provisions and supplies to various parts of the Atlantic Ocean, there to await for reasonable time, the possible appearance of German ships of war or merchantmen, to which, upon orders of their com manders, the coal, provisions and supplies were to be delivered in such quantities as might be required.
 Karl Buenz undertook to comply with these instructions and with that end in view issued the necessary orders to George Kotter and Adolph Hachmeister (co-defendants), who obeyed them.
 'The Hamburg-American Line owned, or chartered upon time char ters a number of steamships, bought coal, provisions and supplies which were loaded upon these steamships and caused or attempted to cause these steamships to sail from the ports of Newport News, New York, Pensacola and New Orleans with this object.
 "The sums so expended were from time to time supplied by the home office of the company in Hamburg by means of credit through banks and bankers in New York city in favor of the Hamburg American Line."
 Charges Boy-Ed.
 In almost the first words of his opening address to the jury MT. Wood charged that Capt. K. Boy-Ed, Ger nff nha {1I tering and loading of some of he vessels and that $75O,0OO for relief of German warships was spent under his direction here.
 I've expect to show," MT. Wood said, that this conspiracy extended from New York and Philadelphia to San Francisco and New Orleans. We expect to show that Dr. BuenZ em- ployed a man named Kulenkampf to clear two vessels in a hurry from Philadelphia at very opening of the war, telling him that this was de- sirable because the Ham burg-Amer- ican line should not appear in the transaction. We can prove that one of the vessels-the Berwind-was loaded with coal bought from he Berwind Coal Co.,, and we under stand that Dr. Buenz wanted Mr. BefWlnd or the coal company to clear the steamer but that MT. Berwind de- murred and Kulenkampf was called in to do the work.
 Prove Receipt Of Money.
 We shall prove that not long af- terwards Kulenkampf received $75O,- 900 from some place in Germany he didn't know where or from whom that he put this money in two New
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