Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-12-31

IN the Hindu conspiracy trial.
is related by the San Francisco
Mr.. and Mrs. Das were married In
Honolulu last June and for time
they lived at the Pierpoint
Her husband returned to the Isl.
ands last week, having left San Fran
cisco before she took the stand.
The Taraknath Das referred to Is
the Hindu who was refused permis-
sion 10 land while the Oriental liner
that bore him to San Francisco was
here last summer. At that time his
baggage and personal effects were
searched by the U. s. marshal's office.
The Chronicles story follows:
Flames OF Oriental passion that
burned hatred into the hearts Of two
Hindu leaders in the plot to restore
independence to India; that brought
dissensiop and threats Of exposure,
were n yndled before the jury yes
terday & the Gsrman.Hindu revolt
trial by 3 woman in o calm betraya of
both men, made enemies through de-
sire to control her destiny.
The woman was Mrs. Sarangada
Das, dark OF hair and eyes, native
Of Switzerland. but now the wife Of O.
Hindu chemist In Honolulu. Her ap-
pearance as government witness
stirred the ashes OF California col
lege romance, which found its ending
IN San Francisco divorce court while
the Hindu revolutionary leaders fought
20 control her destiny--one to trans
form her into q modern Joan Of Arc,
leading the Indians In intrigue against
the British--the other to inspire her
to be an idealist and Q teacher In In.
dia. Shorn Of her Indian name, Mrs.
Das In the former Miss Frieda Ma.
tilda Hanswirth, Stanford student
who, IN August, 1910, became the bride
Of Dr.. Arthur Lee Munger Of San
Francisco, then attached to the medi-
col staff Of the Lane Hospital Both
were then attending Stanford. The
teremony took place in the valley of
he Arroyo. Grande, the home Of the
tect known as the Temple Of the Peo-
pie.
Was Stamford student
Both were students Of philosophy,
and the ceremony under which they
were married accentuated the philo
nophical and the social side of mar.
rioge and minimized the religious.
Munger was college deDater, athlete
and gifted musician, and hisSwlfe. |
then . Bonnheim fellow In English
and an advanced German student. II
was at stanford that the then Mrs. |
Munger first met Har Dayal, who was |
professor of philosophy. now In |
Berlin. and named by the government
as the chief Hindu conspirator.
Il was upon her statement to the
faculty at Stanford, according to the
Federal officials. Of Har Dayal's So
cl1lly Revolutionary activities, that he |
wa requested TO resign IN 1912. Later |
the Hindu was arrested az an an.
archi1tN ~ the Immigration authori. |
ties mo- fled to Germany, while at1
liberty on ball. At Stanford the then
Mrs. Munger also met Taraknath |
Das. Hindu leader. On trial as . de.
fcndant
In 1914 she left san Francisco for
Zurich, Switzerland, the home Of hcr
mother. Here she met Har Dayal |
shortly after the outbreak OF the |
European war and then, the govern.
ment charges, q member OF the Berlin |
Indian committee. Har Dayal, the
witness said. pleaded that she join tho |
conspirators IN the plot, charged to
German intrigue to overthrow British
rule In India He asked her, she said.
70 80 to ENGLAND and work among /
the Indian students there In the In
terest Of the revolt.
Urges Revolution Plot
Later be proposed, she said, that
she 80 to India and spread reyolu-
tionary ppopaganda. and lastly that
she rsturn to the United States and i
act as his agent She declined be-
cause she opposed, she testified. Sc
curing q change in Indian govern
ment through violence. although ad-
hitting that she was fundamentally
interested in lndia's struggle for In.
dependence.
She consented to satisfy his en-.
treaties, she said. to bring messages
10 Ram Chandra and Munshi Rham,
defendants on trial, and others. but +
destroyed them before reaching Amer
ica. Her arrival IN San Francisco
signali1ed the beginning Of the battle
between Har Dayai and Taraknath
Das 10 control her destiny, revealed
bx letters introduced by United States
Attorney John W. Preston, and sound
ed the death knell Of her college ro-
nance. IN November. 1914. she used
Dr. Mungar for divorce. One Of her
allegations was that he had brought
strange woman to their apartments
at 1870 Pine street, who has said ashs