The Washington herald., 1916-02-10
GERMAN AGENTS
Are NAMED IN
81 TRUE BILLS
Eight Of Men Appear at Mar
shals Office to Give
Selves Up.
MUST RETURN TODAY
San Francisco Grand Jurymen
Charge Violations of Amer
lean Neutrality.
RESULT OF PLOTTING PROBE
First Action Taken by Government
Acainst Renresen,stives of For,
MUST RETURN TODAY
RESULT OF PLOTTING PROBE
First Action Taken by Government
Against Representatives of For
eisn Powers in u. S.

Special TO The washingtou Herald
San Francisco. Feb. Slight men
of the thirty-one against whom Fed
eral true bills charging neutrality vio-
lation have been voted. appeared at
the United States marshars office to-
day TO submit to arrest. They were
told that until the indictments form
ally were returned tomorrow, no ar
rests would be made.
Franz Bopp, German consul-general
here, and Baron e. H Won Shack. vice
consul. both of whom are on the list
which takes in other consulate officials
and employees, officers. of steamship
companies. and Maurice e Hall, Turk
ish consuI-general, said they would be
ready when wanted.
John w. Preston, u. S. District At
torney. worn out from working in the
neutrality cases, was ordered today by
his physician TO go to a hospital to
recuperate. Instead he left the city
for vacation.
Those Indicted.
Among those against whom indict-
ments were voted were:
Franz Bopp. consul general Of Ger
many; Baron Z. II. Won Setback, vice
consul for Germany: II. W. e. Kaof-
mann. chancellor for the German con-
suiate: Maurice. H. Hall. consul general
for Turkey; Frederick Jebsen. former
owner Of the. steamer Mazatlan;
Johannes II. van Koolbergen. alleged
agent for the German consulate; John
and Julius RothschiIds. wholesale gro
GERS; George and James Flood. steamship
agents, and Robert Capelle. general agent
of the North German Lloyd Steamship
Company.
The indictments are the first the gov
eminent has attempted to obtain against
official representatives Of foreign powers
in its efforts TO curtan the work OF al
legged plotters.
Three Of the bomb plot indictments are
new charges against Baron George VIII
helm Won Brincken, an attache of the
German consulate: c. c. Crowley, a de-
tective. and Mrs. Margaret Cornell. an
investigator, who, with Crowley, was
employed by Bopp, according to the
charges. These persons alread-- under
indictment accused of conspiracy to de-
stroy commerce and to use mails to in
cite to murder, arson and assassination
are. according to District Attorney Pres
ton, charged with violation OF the Sher-
man antitrust law and conspiring to
send a military expedition from the
United States.
Operated in Canada.
1t is charged that German agents oper-
ated in Canada in the destruction of tun-
nels and bridges to such an extent that
their alleged acts come under the head
of those of a military expedition. Won
Koolbergen is said to have been one of
these agents.
Alleged violation of the Sherman law
has to do with restrictions of inter
state commerce, which the government
charges Bopp. Van Setback, Crowley, Mrs.
Cornell and Won Brincken conspired to
effect
l. is in connection with the alleged pur-
chase of shipments and their discharge
to German cruisers in Chilean waters
by the steamer Sacramento that Turk
ish Consul Hall is said to have been
indicted. Preston said Hall signed the
checks for the purchase Of the cargo
of the Sacramento.