The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-28


 Allies.
 New York, April 2S-Dynanrtte enough to blow an end off the Fed eral Building was taken into the United. States District Court yesterday as an exhibit in the trial before Judge brother-in-law Walter Scholz, and Paul Daeche, who are charged with having cohspired to sink munftion ships by placing bombs on board of them. The jury evidenced anxiety and not interest as the box containing the sticks was passed along in front of them. When. Fay, in the course of the trial, reached over and took one of the sticks in his hand, Judge Howe announced sharply that he did not intend to have the exhibit handled by every one.
 %The exhibition of trinitrotoluol. or IT N. IT.. as 1t is called in the court, did not create a thrill for the specta-. tors and the jury had already been told how Fay had hammered this high make it explode. The next exhibit was several packages of potassium chlorate. and when one of them was lifted into view Judge Howe asked anxiously whether it was explosive.
 1.Oh, no,'' said Fay's lawyer. 'that- is perfectly harm less.
 Richard Zinkernage1, who. when Daeche called upon him on Oct. 19, last year, was head of the Bridgeport branch of the German Labor Bureau, of which Hans Liebau was the head, and manager of the New York bureau, was called to the stand to tell of the alleged eonspirator's visit to him. Daeche. he said, called upon him at his office at s3 Fairfield avenue, Bridgeport, and give him the hailing sign of a. fraternal society.
 We went from one subject to an- other, to N1ar and the like. ' the wit ness said, and he admitted that sDaeche had asked him whether he (Daeche) couIdAs obtain high explosives.
 szinkernage1 said that he told Daeche he had come Nro the wrong place. but that he could get expIo- sfxes in New York. T They went down stairs and Daeche sent a telegram. Zinkernage1 told him of an interesting article by Professor P. Vaterrodt, chemist on T. N T. Before they part ed the witness said he gave his caller several bullets, including some of the dhmdurn variety.
 Mrs. Helen M Jobbsl and Arthur J6bbs, telegraph operators from Bridgeport, identified the telegram as having passed through their hands, but tfey could not identify Daeche
  mechanical engineer of Bridgeport. l who had an office in the building with 1 Zfnkernagel, met Daeche when he called at ZinkernagePs office, and he volunteered to meet him later in this city, and introduce him to Hans Lie bau. On that visit he met Scholz, and with him and Daeche walked down to the Battery. Daeche went into the Customs House to transact some business There was some gen ,eraI conversation, he said. and in the course of it the subject of shipping munitions to the Allies was mention eA said. and some one-it may have been 1ne-said what a shame it was to allow. ships to take ammunition to the Allies" < Hans Liebau, the next witness, said Daeche had called upon him. and he gave Daeche the lecture of Professor
 aterrodt on "T.sN, T.
 Post off5ce employees traced the de- livery of a letter from Daeche to Fay 1 and SchoIz when the latter lived in | Weehawken- William Brunsehwen, clerk in the Hudson City station ger-4t sey City, and Emil Groth, postmaster of Weehawken, testified as to this let
 Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart. who rented Fay and Scholz tsse rooms at 28 Fourth i street, Weehawken, said they re- ! Inained with her from May to October. 1915.
 9The trial opened for the day with | Carl L., Wettig on the stand. Ex- Judge Unger, resuming cross -examin- alton. insisted that Wettig tell | whether he dealt in ammunition with | the British or French government. A | ruling of the court prevented direct a rfsvper Much time was spent while | yEYeftie- fa1I of his efforts to get -Fay l to pay for the T. N. T. he had deliv- | cred to him. The witness said his in come was $5. 900, a year. He admitted that the Greeley Square Hotel Go. got a s1aad gment against him, and that in. supplementary proceedings he had sworn on July g, 191, to having no personal or real property
 Then came the identification of 1 many of the exhibits. articles. explos- ives and mechanisms that Wettig had seen in the house of Fay and Schofz The exhibits included false mustache a wig. and map of New York har- bor.
 Mrs Anna c. .Harbeson of 27 Fifth street. Weehawken. told how Fay and | Scho1z had taken rooms in her, house just before, their arrest.
 The three heavy metal tanks in | which it is alleged the defendants placed the machinery for setting off explosives were identified as the pro- duct of his shop by Ignatz Soldering, of 344 Forty-second street. In addf- ton to the three tanks shown he had 1 made four others. All had been or dered by Scholz, who had paid him $70,l or $10 a tank. He thought. he said, that the tanks were wanted for the storage of gasoline.
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