The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-18
Capt. Won Papen, Former
German Military Attache,
Under Indictment
PLOTTED TO BLOW
UP WELLAND CANAL
Federal officials Do Not Expect to
Bring Him to Trial, as He Is In Ger
many - other Prominent Men Also
Held for Trial.


NEW YORK, April 1S.-Capt. Franz
Won Papen, recalled military attache to
the German embassy at Washington,
was indicted by the federal grand
jury here yesterday as the organize,
and fnancier of an alleged conspiracy
to blow up the Welland canal in Can
ada. With him were also indicted
Capt. Hans Tauscher, alleged agent of
the Krupps in the United States and
husband of Nine Johanna Gadski, the
prima donna; Constantine Govani, AL
fred j. Fritzen and another whose
name has not been revealed. 1t was
learned from a reliable source that the
latter is prominent German whose
name has been mentioned frequently in
connection with German propaganda.
Federal officials do not expect to
bring Won Papen to trial While he is
no longer immune from prosecution by
the United States civil authorities
since he ceased to be member of III.
German embassy staff, the offense with
which he is charged is not extradit-
able under any treaty with a foreign
government
The indictment charges, in addition
to the Welland canal plot, that it was
the purpose and intent of the de-
PENDANTS to blow up and destroy other
property in Canada. Won Papen was
designated by federal officials as the
|"brains' of the alleged conspiracy. 1t
is alleged in the Indictment that he,
with the others, began, set on foot,
provided and prepared the means for
a certain military enterprise to be
carried on from within the territory
and jurisdiction of the United States
against the territory and dominions of
the king of Great Britain, with whom
the United States at all times men
toned was and is at peace. -
The other three men whose names
were made public were, according to
the indictment, mostly agents and
employees of Won Papen, who planned
the conspiracy and furnished the mon
ey and high explosives. The five men
alleged to have carried dynamite and
other explosives IN suit cases to Nj
agara Falls, where the plot was aban-
donedl. were Horst Won der Goltz,
alias Franz Hobart Waehendorf, alias
Bridgman Taylor Fritzen, <Govani, Carl
lTushendler and Joachim Busse. Won
der Colt, who was later arrested in
England, returned to the United
States accompanied by a detective
| from Scotland Yard, and gave impor-
tant testimony to the government at
| New York
John t. Ryan, an attorney and
prominent in politics in Buffalo, n. Y,
was named in the Indictment as the
man who acted as intermediary IN
the payment of money by Won Papen
| to Won der Goltz. On two occasions
| in September, 1914, it is alleged, Won
Papen paid 5000 to Won der Goitz
through Buffalo bank and Ryan. A
previous payment of 5000 also is said
to have been made to Won der Goltz
Checks and eheckbook stubs of these
transactions are in the possession OF
the United States attorney
Capt Tauscher, head of the Tausche1
arms company at New York, supplied
the explosives to Won der Goltz, the
indictment charges, while Won Papen
furnished electric generators, fuses
and wires In August, 1914, accord
ing to the Indictment, five sailors from
the interned German liner Bavaria. al
Baltimore, were brought to New York
! by the alleged conspirators to aid IN
the plot, but they were subsequently
returned to their ship Arrangements
then were made, it is charged. for the
| five men named in the indictment te
undertake the expedition.
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