Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-08
OvERAMENT IS
BUILDING FIRMLY
IN THE BOPP CASE
Dynamiting Conspiracy Trial
Promises to Be Long Drawn
. OUT UnimpOrtant Witnesses
Testify on Fourth Day.
tsv MORNING JousuAL SPECIAL LEASED wrRri

san Francisco, Dec Taken by
surprise with unexpected concessions
of the Bopp defense, the government
probably viii relinquish many of it's
preliminary witnesses tomorrow and
put Louis j. Smith, its star witness,
on the stand
German Consul General Franz
Bopp with Baron T., II. van Setback,
Lieut. George Wilhelm Won Brinken,
| and others, are undergoing trial in the
| United states district court here on
charges of conspiracy involving the
neutrality of the United States
The government has subpoenaed
about 250 witnesses in the alleged
bomb conspiracy trial, but announced
today that it is now practically ready
to take up the German consul gen
erals alleged connection with the out
RACES of May, 1916 in the state of
Washington and subsequently in Can
ada
Smith, one Of the seven under in
dictment whose testimony is relied
upon by the prosecution to convict
Bopp and his associates, and his re,
ations with c. c. Crowley, one of the
defendants, formed the chief theme
today.
Crowley, a detective, is alleged to
be the go-between through whom the
consul general used Smiths dynamit-
ing procliyities
District Attorney Preston introduc-
ed one of Crowley's alleged kilograms
to Mrs Margaret w. Cornell, his sec
retary, sent from Tacoma to San
Francisco, following the Seattle barge
explosion, as follows:
Work was good Am well fixed.
No connection with the big circus It
was an accident to the elephant"
The message was signed &C."
According to Mr.. Preston it proved |
so cryptic that Mrs Cornell had to
telegraph for an Interpretation, It'll
was indicated by the prosecution that /
this message was intended for trans |
mission to the German consulate gem
eral.
After introduction of several tele- /
grams sent by Smith from Tacoma /
and Seattle, Wash, to G. 9. Crowley |
an indicted detective in the case ap-
parently TO establish Smiths presence !
in the northwest in connection with .
his alleged confessed attempt to place
bombs on munitions ships to Russia
the government shifted to another
phase of its case. Mrs. Louise Eek
hard a jantress in a San Francisco
apartment house, was called
She said Mrs. Margaret Cornell,
detective employed by Crowley, lived
in the apartment house and noted her
movements. The prosecution intend
ed to show 1t was explained that Mrs.
Cornell was in communication fire.
quently with Crowley, who, the Ger
man consulate has admitted, was in
its employ.
All of the telegrams were in a code
Of apparently plain English and were
supposed TO concern buying and sell
ing, according TO the government, but
really referred to dynamiting schemes,
their success and failure.
with the rapid introduction of three
more witnesses the governments in
itial purpose-that Of proving rela-
tions between the alleged conspirators
outlined itself
Mrs. Margaret Pierce, a telephone
operator at an apartment house whero
Baron George Wilhelm Won Bricken,
a defendant consulate attache, lived
testified that Mrs. Cornell frequently
called to see Won Brincken and tele-
phoned to him.
James McCarren, clerk at the hotel
where Crowley roomed, testified that
Mrs. Cornell and Crowley had confer
ences there. Laura Riley, a telephone
operator in a hotel in Tacoma, iden-
titled Smith as a walter Brown" {
who sent the following message to
Crowley in san Francisco May %,
1915:
"He has sold it. Shall buy at Vic ,
toria2 Answer. Walter"
The government introduced an al /
legged reply:
III you think you can make It, yes.
C" ii
Contending that the message signed
walter" was m code John w. Pres
ton. United states district attorney ,
translated It 70 read
/ have failed shall : 20 10 We |
toria and try ~ accomplish something I
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