New Britain herald., 1916-06-28
NPAPEN PAID FOR
 WELLAND DYNAMITE
Von Der Goltz Says Dismissed At
 taChe Financed Plan

New York. June 2S.-Capra1n Franz tary attache, paid for the dynamite which was to have been used to blow up the Welland Canal and financed the trip to Buffalo of Horst Von der Goltz and his alleged fellow con- spirators acording to testimony for the government at yesterdays session of the trial of Captain Hans Tauscher. Captain Tauscher, Krupp agelt in this country and husband of Mime. Johanna Gadski, is charged with part in the conspiracy.
 Tauscher, witness said, ordered the dynamite from the du Pont Pow der Works, saying he wanted it for mining work in New Mexico. AdOlph H. Levenger, Tauscher's secretary, who testified he telephoned the order for the explosive, said he had never known his employer to buy dynamite before.
 Say Von Papen Paid Bills.
 Harold A. Clark, chief clerk of the du Pont auditing offices, said he was told the dynamite was needed imme- diately, making shipment by rail not feasible. He was asked that men who would be sent from Tauscher's office be permitted to take it away. He said the company permitted this ir- regular method of delivery because Tauscher was known to be a respon- sible person.
 Henry Mucke, Tauscher book keeper, testified that the bill for the dynamite, which cost s5O6, was sent to Tauscher, but that it was paid by Won Papen. He also testified that at Tauacher's direction he -ent six automatic pistols to Won der Goltz when he was in a hotel in Hoboken.
 The alleged canal plot was matched, according to the testimony of Charles Tucker, one of the members of the Buffalo expedition, in front of a news paper bulletin board in Times Square.
 "I met Won der Goltz accfdently" he said, land we got to talking about the war. He hired me as his secre- tary, and then told me he wanted me to carry a suitcase full of dynamite to Buffalo. I refused, because I hadn't been hired as a porter"
 Threatened To Shoot Him.
 He said Won der Goltz had forced him to go to Buffalo by threatening LO Have IlIIl SlOL II IS ulOu |.
 Attorneys for Captain Tauscher told Federal Judge Augustus Hand, before whom the Krupp agent is be- ing tried, that they would show that the men who went to Buffalo had no serious intention of blowing Up any thing-that they saw chance to have a good time on Won Papen's money and made the most of it.
 \ John Ryan, a Buffalo lawyer said by Won der Goltz to have acted as Won Papen's agent on the Buffalo end, told of helping Won der Goltz to cash several drafts sent to him from New York. He was sh own a receipt signed l with his name acknowledging the re- ceipt of s200 from the Merchants and 1 Traders Bank for the account of 1 Won Papen, through Knauth, Nachod | & Kuhne" He paid this amount to | Von der Goltz, he said, on the sup l position that he was acting for a | client named Steffens. Won Papen l is said by governme ent agents to have 1 used this alias.
 ] An emp1oye of Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne later testified he forwarded the money on Won Papan's order and said that when second draft was sent he was requested to omit Won 1 Papen's name from it.
 Ryan admitted having received a telegram from John Devoy, editor of l 'The Gaelic American" introducing Won der Goltz and asking him to do
 what he could for him.
 The government will probably close 1 it's case today.