The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-18

 noon by a Federal grand jury on charge of having engaged in m1l1- tary enterprise to destroy the Weaand canal, a Canadian waterway
 # Capt. von Papen is accused in the indictment as having furnished funds for the expedition to Horst von der GoItz, a German spy, and also having supplied to Won der Goltz electric generators, fuses and other wires for use in detonating 200 pounds of dyna- mite which Capt. Hans Tauscher, Krupp agent in America and husband of Mmme. NGadski, is charged With having purchased. Capt. Tauscher was also indicted yesterday. as we're eight minor figures.
 Only four names out of the five mentioned in the indictment, Wh1ch was kept sealed, were made public. The fifth name was withheld until noon today. It is expected that this de- fendant will be brought into court to- day to plead to the indictment and furnish. bail. The authorities 1ntl- mated that this defendant was per son of prominence
 Indictment Without Precedent.
 The indictment of Won Papen is without precedent. It was ordered by the Department of Justice, United States Attorney Marshall said, after a summary of the evidence against Capt. won Paben, Capt. Tauscher and the three other defendants was laid before the attorney-genera1. Because of the lack of precedent for the in dictment the act of the Federal grand jury, of which Boyd Decker is chair man, was regarded as indicating in an emphatic manner the attitude of the administration toward the plotters against neutrality.
 According to international law an ambassador, his staff and his servants are entitled to immunity from prose- cution for any crimes These priv iIeges and imraunities,'' according to the Cyc1opaedia of Law and Proce- dure. H'do not expire with the cessa- tion of his functionss but he retains them until he returns to his prtnc1- paI.''
 The interpr citation that Roger B. Wood, Assistant United States Attor- ney, in charge of the criminal division put upon the international law is that while Capt. von Papen was immune from arrest or prosecution until he returned to Germany, that immunity no longer holds and he would be sub ject to arrest should he return to this country.
 MT. Wood had charge of the fram- inA of the evidence against the Ham burg-American officials and prose cuted the case. At that trial he Ad-
  ties of Capt. Karl Boy-Ed, naval att tache to the Germany Embassy, in | connection with the provisioning of German cruisers in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. He showed that Capt Boy-Ed received and disbursed large amounts of money in accordance with 1 instructions sent by code from Ger many.
 Mr Wood has developed the evid- ence against Capt. Won Papen, Capt. Tauscher, the two minor defendants and the unnamed person. It is re- garded as possible that Capt. Won Pa yen might not have been indicted l the Federal authorities do not expect to try him, for they do not think l Germany would return him for that the other defendants been interwoven so inextricably around the former military attache.
 I Letter From pr. Albert It was learned yesterday that one l of the persons whom Capt Won Pa l pen visited prior to ms departure from this country was pr. Heinrich F. Albert, privy counsellor to the German Embassy and chief fiscal agent of the German Empire in this 1 country. He spents several hours with pr. Albert at the Hotel Asror When Capt. Von Papen's papers were 1 taken from him at Falmouth by the I h. 1 was Among them a letter which Dr. 1 Albert had written from San Francis | co on learning of the attaches re call, in that letter he said:
 When think of your and Boy Eds departure and that I alone re- 1 main behind in New York, could | well, better not"
 Earlier in the letter pr. Albert wrote: You will receive when tr Germany the long intended report o1 the expenses paid through my ac- count on your behalf. I should be very thankful to you if you would then support the questions of none tary advance which you know of, al though I know that I was rn1staker Tin my opinion, that I acted as youl Representative and according to youl
 wishes''
 MT. Marshall and Mr. Wood both
 declined to answer questions regard ling the name of the fifth persons un
 der indictment. There was a hin
 that a woman was involved, but i l was denied. Only parts of the in
 dictment, which contains five counts Ewere made public and the part bear. | ing on the fifth defendant was with l held.
 The indictment is concerned with
 the first expedition against the Vel
 land Canal in September. 1914 one
 year to the month prior to the eX
 petition which Paul Koenig, alleged head of the German spy system 1T
 America, is accused of having under | taken. The details were published al
 the time of the arrest of Capt. Tau
 scher, then named as the director o1
 the enterprise, though not actually participating in it.
 The indictment is returned under section 13 of the United States Grim final Statutes, which provides a pen
 atty of $3, ,0OO fine,' three years in pri q Iorx Ina Tho ever within the jurisdiction of the 1 United States begins or sets on foot
 provides or prepares the means for z military enterprise against a natior Ifriendly to the United States shall bt
 punished. The first count of the in 1 4l. l1.fc,- dcarat f