New Britain herald., 1916-06-27

These came to New York, he said, but 1 he sent them back to Baltimore be-
 cause he thought they were being
 watched.
 | A check for $200 made out to Taylor l and signed F. von Papen and dated | September, 1914, was put in evidence. l It was for expenses, von der Goltz
 said. He reported to the Military Att | tache on his return from Baltimore 1 and they discussed dynamite at the 1 German Club. Following instructions l he said he went to Captain Tauscher's 1 office in Broadway, who was the man l who could get the dynamite. l The men he employed to form the l expedition were Alfred Fritzen, Con l vales Covani, Fred Busse, and Charles ] Tucheimer Tucker. They were { paid from s2 to $5 a day. He said 1 Von Papen usually gave him cash. In l 6epte1n Der he went to Tauschers office, and they discussed dynamite and fuses, He got a letter from Tauscher to the du Pont office at 90 West
 street, went there, and got an order for 300 pounds of dynamite, which
 was delivered on a barge off the Statue of Liberty. He went to the
 German club, carrying some of the explosive in a taxicab, and reported to Von Papen. He said pistoIs were delivered to him at Meyers Hotel in Hoboken after he had asked Tauscher for them.
 'We were to use the pistols to make 1 a clean getaway" said Von der Go1tz Won der Goltz asserted he received
 fuses and eletcric generators when at
 luncheon with Von Papen at the Ger
 man club.
 Witness Identifies Telegram The witness told of calling on a lawyer named Ryan in Buffalo and receiving money from him. He identified telegrams sent to "Steffin" of Central Park South, which Mr. Wood said was Won Papen. From Buffalo the "expedition' went to the l Welland Canal ito take cognizance of
 the aspect" of the place. He found it ed his assistants to go to St. Catherine to Hook around" Won der Goltz said he was in Buffalo about ten days. One Beuttner, an aviator and manager of a restaurant in Niagara Falls gave him permission to store the dynamite there, and he and his men came back to New York in re- sponse to telegram from Won Papen. Subsequently the witness sailed for England and was arrested on Oct. 8, 1914 and held in jail there until he returned to this country to testify for the government.
 Won der Goltz on cross animation said that at 6 he had been arrested
 in Brussels and eXtradited to Ger many, charged with forging a lease, but was acquitted. He took the name Won der Goltz, he said, at the sugges- tion of the German government.
 "I was arrested in MeXico," he said, and I was under sentence of death for two and a half months. was. captured by the federals on the charge of Kuerch, a German consul. I never tried to steal the consul's busi- ness"
 "Why did you desert from the Unit ed States army?" asked MT, Smyth
 ''I was forced to do so by German secret agents in Galveston," he re- piled.
 Cross examined about the pistols delivered in the Hoboken hotel he said that he thought Fritzen had signed the receipt. He asserted that he had obtained immunity in Eng land just after Won Papen's papers were seized at Falmouth. He denied that he had been told that if he in- volved Won Papen he would never be punished. Replying to a question as to what he was to receive for testi- flying, he said sharply, 1T am poorer today than ever before"
 He added that he was voluntarily testifying and without hope of re- ward. He was willing to give his life for Germany but not his honor, and though he was brought here against his will he would not lie.
 Juror wanted to know whether