New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-10
FIaunted as CAMERA Tar
get, Bark Bore Coal
Cargo to Warships.
EIGHT SURRENDER
IN BOMB INQUIRY
Two United States immigration
Commissioners Offer to Give
Themselves Up.


included in the long Hat Of those
against whom Federal grand jury
voted true bills for neutrality violation
appeared at tho United States Mar
shal's Office to-day TO submit to arrest.
They were told that until the indict-
ments formally were returned to-mor-
row no arrests would be made.
Franz Bopp, German COnsul-General
here. and Baron T.. II. Won Setback,
Vice-Consul. both of whom are on the
list. which takes in other consulate Of
fcials and employees, officers Of steam
ship companies. Maurice f.. Hall, Turk
isi Consul General, and numerous
others. informed the Federal authori-
ties that they would be ready when
wanted.
Two United state immigration Off
cials, said to have been among twenty
seven persons indicted for smuggling
aliens into this country, also sought ar
rest and bail to-day.
Prosecutor Worn Out.
John ", Preston United States At
torney. worn out from working up the
neutrality and immigration cases, was
ordered to-day by his physician TO
hospital to recuperate, but instead ne
! left the city for n vacation.
The scope Of the governments pro-
posed prosecution Of alleged German
bomb and shipping plots was shown TO,
day "a details Of indictments voted
against thlrty-one men and hrms De
came known
Even the little barkentine Retriever,
tied to her wharf IN the bay, was IN
VOWED because of an alleged contem-
III In. aff
the Heads more than year ago IN the
guise Of motion picture expedition.
Perils Of the deep IL was given out,
were 20 be portrayed as never before,
with the Retriever figuring in front Of
a camera. investigation by government
agents brought the report 20 the Dis
trict Attorneys Office that the Re-
+ tricvcr was full OF coal. The necessity
Of this cargo on sailing vessel en-
gagged IN motion picture business
was not evident TO the Investigators,
and the Retriever never got away at
all
The complete list OF those indicted
follows:
For conspiracy 10 interfere with com
MERGE under the Sherman antitrust act
and for con piracy 10 organize military
expedition Franz Bopp, Consul Gen
cral for Germany, Baron Eckhardt n.
Won Setback. vlcc-consul general: Baron
George Wilhelm Won Brincken, sttache;
Johannes Ienrykus van Koolbergen, al
legged German agent: Charles {. Crow
Icy, detective. employed by German
Consulate; Mrs. Margaret ". Cornell,
assistant 70 Crowley.
All Of these are involved In alleged
plots 20 blow up Canadian tunnels and
American powder mills.
For conspiracy to defraud the gov
eminent in the alleged shipping plots
involving the Retriever, the Sacra-
mento, the Mazatlan, the Olson and the
Mahony.
Henry ". z. Kaufman. chancellor
of the German Consulate General;
Robert Capelle, agent here for the
North German Ilyod Steamship
Company; Maurice Hall. Consul Gen
cral for Turkey; John and Julius
Rothschild. wholesale grocers; Baron
Eckhardt H. Won Setback, George and
James Flood, ship owners and brok-
ers; Philip k. Thayer. president Of the
Northern and Southern Steamship
Company; p. II. Swayne, OF Swayne &
Hoyt, shipping brokers; John q. Hoyt,
Of the same firm; c. l.. Bunker, OF I.
l.. Bunker & Co.; Captain Fred Jeb-
sen OF lue MdLdtldu, snip ONHtti it-
ported killed recently on a German
submarines: DR.. Simon Remer, re-
puted German naval officer; J. +. Bien,
attorney: 7. A. Anderson, captain Of
the Sacramento; Benno Klocke, Gustav
Traub. Adolph Wimmel and 7. K. Jo-
hansen, all of the Sacramento's crew;
George Phillips and Frederick Will
Jams. supposed to be fictitious names;
the Northern and Southern Steamship
Company, c. d. Bunker & Co. and
Swayne & Hoyt.
Three Groups of Charges.
The specifications in the charge Of
conspiracy 70 defraud the government,
varying in different instances. are in
three groups:
First, conspiring 20 violate neutral
ity by making San Francisco a supply
base for belligerents' ships az sea, sec
ond. conspiracy 20 defraud through
false manIfests; third conspiracy TO
defeat neutrality by supplying belliger-
ent ships with stores to which they were
not entitled.
The speedy trial promised by the
Department of Justice in all these
cases will mark the elimination Of ac-
tivities on the Pacific Coast, which be-
gan with the war and are said by Fed
eIal authorities 10 have continued al
most 10 the present.