The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-12-02
CAPTAIN BOY-ED
ACCUSED IN COURT
Attorney Wood SaysH He Has Rid
den Roughshod 0verU. S. Laws.
S75O,OOO FROM GERMANY
Prosecution Refuses To Accept Con.
eession, Preferring To Prove
Charges BY Testimony-lntent To
Dsfraud Government Denied.


New York.-In the alleged con-
spiracy Of several Hamburg-American
Steamship Line officials to deceive and
defraud the United States by sending
neutral relief ships with coal and other
supplies to German men-of-war in the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at the be-
ginning of the European war Captain
X. Boy-Ed, German naval attache,
with headquarters at the German EN-
bassy in Washington, played a leading
role, according to witnesses who testi-
fed in the Federal court here.
One OF these witnesses swore that
Captain Boy-Ed personally directed the
expenditure of approximately $750,000
which, unsolicited and unexpected,
had been deposited to the witnesses
credit in New York banking house
early in September, 1914. OF this
money, the witness testified, $3.50, 900
was telegraphed to the Neveda Nation
al Bank at San Francisco in one lump
sum, $4,000 was paid in several
amounts to the North German Lloyd
Steamship Line here, about $4,000 to
the Hamburg-American Line here and
by cable money order in Hamburg and
some of the remainder was still on
hand All Of these disbursements, this
witness asserted, were made by order
by Captain Boy-Ed.
German Importer Chief Witness.
This witness, Gustave B. Kulen.
kampff, a German importer and ex-
porter, with Offices here, and others
testified in the trial OF Dr. Karl Buenz,
Adolph Hackmeister, George Koetter
and Joseph Poeppinghausen, all Off
cials of the Hamburg-American Line,
who are charged with conspiracy in
having directed the loading and dis.
patching of 16 vessels to the relief Of
a half dozen or more German warships
isolated from supplies in the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans.
The testimony, which virtually
opened the Governments case. follow.
ed a short address to the jury by
Roger B. Wood, Assistant United
States District Attorney, in which Mr..
Wood said that the Government would
show that "the defendants rode rough.
sffod over the laws and treaties of the
United States as contemptuously as II
those laws and treaties had been mere
scraps of paper"
Prosecution Rejects Concessions.
William Rand, counsel for the de.
PENDANTS, offered to concede certain
charges of the Government, involving
12 steamers, and in his concession ad.
mitted that Dr. Buenz and his asso-
ciates had sent out the vessels as
charged to meet German warships in
the Atlantic and deliver their supplies.
Mr.. Rand said that In sending these
vessels his clients were acting on
legitimate orders which came to them
by cable from the home office of the
company in Hamburg. But the Gov.
ernment lawyers rejected the conces.
sion and sought to prove their case
out of the mouths of witnesses.
"The defense is not willing to admit
the facts; It is trying to smother
them" was Mr.. Woods retort to Mr..
Rand's offer.
"Quite the contrary" replied Mr..
Rand smilingly. I'VE are willing to
admit that S75O,OOO has been spent as
the Government is trying so hard to
prove. Why, we are willing to go
much further than that--we viii ad-
NIT that 100000 Of German money
was spent in chartering and supplying
vessels for relief of German warships."
"And how much more?" asked Mr..
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"