The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-11
Federal Grand Jury Returns FIJI
teen True Bills Against Head
Officials Of ConsuIates and
Others involved In War Plots
PERSONS WHO SUPPLIED
TEUToN FLEET INCLUDED
Alleged Principal Comprehensive
Accused Of cabal To Destroy
Munition Plants, Railroads
and Steamship Terminals

(AssociAted Press BY Federal WirelessD
q AN FRANCISCO, February D.
The head officials Of the local Ger
man consulate, the head Of the
local Turkish consulate and number
Of others have been indicted by the
federal grand jury as a result Of the
Investigations that haze been carried
Oh in relation to the plots TO destroy
intuition factories, rail- Dads and steam
ship terminals and in relation to the
breaches of the neutrality law con
neeted with the activities Of the now
destroyed cruiser feet Of Admiral won
Spec In South American waters.
Charged with implication in the plots
to destroy property and prevent inter
ST ate commerce are Franz Bopp, the
German consul general; Baron u. H.
Won Setback, the German vice-consul;
Baron George Wilhelm Won Brineken,
former attache at the German consulate,
and Private Detectives q. q. Crowley
and Mrs, Margaret Cornell, employed at
the consulate.
Other Indictments
Charged with conspiracy to violate
the neutrality laws are George Il. Hail,
the local eonsulgcneral for Turkey;
Baron Won Setback, of the German CON
sulate; DR.. Simon Reimer, of the Ger-
man navy, who sliprld off one Of the
German cruisers while she lay at San
Francisco for coal; II. w. e. Kaui man,
the chancellor Of the German consulate,
and Frederick Williams
These FIVE men indicted In connec.
ton with the Quitting Of the steam
er Sacramento, which carried coal and
supplies TO the fleet Of Admiral won
Spec in Chilean waters indictments
have also been returned against John
a.!d julius Rothschild, groeers; George
and James Flood, well known shippii-x
agents, and Robert Capelle for supply
ing the Sacramento, sEs's
Announcement. that these indictments
have been signed was made last night
Hy United States Attorney John w.
Preston. The indictment against the
Turkish consul-general Is based on the
fact, says Mr.. Preston, that he signed
the checks in payment for the supplies
taken on here by the Sacramento.
Munition Factory Plots
Charges have been made, In various
affidavits and arising out Of CORES
pOndence that has fallen into the
hands or federal agents, that the Ger
man consulate here has been the head
quarters Tor the plotting against tho
munrtion factories in Ishpeming, Michi-
gan, and Gary, Indiana 1t has also
been charged that the local consulate
instigatcd the dynamiting at Seattle,
in an attempt to prevent shipments to
Russia Of supplies, and the burning OF
certain docks, and that dynamiters
have been financed by the German con-
snl-general TO operate in British Colum-
hia against the Canadian Pacific Pail
road. ~
One alleged plotter, now held in jail
at Lethbridge, Alberta, mas made an
affidavit that he was sent into Canada
with the approval Of Consul q O.. eral
l3opp, Baron Won Setback and Baron Won
Brincken to blow up some of the rail
road tunnels. He claims that he told
the Canadian officials of his GRAND
and that they, by means OF false re-.
ports. Published in the Canadian press,
enabled him TO deceive his San Fran.
cisco employers and collect for work
he had never attempted.