New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29
Rintelen Expected to Confess
AT Conspiracy Trial Monday
Kaiscrs Representative Keeps Aloot from Other Defend
ants and with Mexican Banker Confers with
Counsel for the Government

/ type that Berlin would have selected
20 spend S3O,00O,00O here IN p-opa-
ganda work.
Others Avoid Rintelen
During the trial Friday il was noticed
that while Rlutelen avoided Lamar,
who is charged with having been the
medium through which Rinteion
/ financed Labor's National Peace Coun-
ell. tho other defendants avoided both.
| And this was emphasized yesterday
when the six and their various counsel
met in the Office of Frank Moss 10 a.
cuss programme. This programme
will resolve itself into general denial
/ OF all the charges. and n specific denial
! that any one connected with Labor
National Peace Council rs an officer
/ knew that German money was being
/ poured into its Golfers by Rintelen
: through Lamar
or these sin the leading spirit u
Frank Buchanan, a lineal descendant
! Of Daniel Boone and a member OF the
| House Of Representatives at the time
/ Of his Indictment. Buchanan, who IS
six feet tall and built proportlonatcy,
with close-cropped brown mustache
and big forehead, LOOKS and acts the
! type that labor chooses for its leaders.
/ That he can fight was shown when he
| sought to have United States Attorney
| Marshall impeached at the time he and
; his co-defendants were being indicted.
( Fowler Oldest of Defendants
/ Another former member of the House
/ of Representatives is among the SIX.
I He is II. Robert Fowler, like Buchanan,
a labor leader, and hailing from Chr
/ caqo He ia the oldest of the de-
| PENDANTS, yet his sixty years sit lightly
on him and his tanned face bespeaks
( the man who has lived in the open air.
Another former official on trial is
Frank S. Monnett. Onetime Attorney
/ General of Ohio and one Of the big
/ labor leaders Of the country. Until the
war in Europe started he was closely
associated with Samuel Gompers.
( Still another prominent labor leader
among the six is Jacob c. Taylor, one
of the national heads of the Cigarmak-
] ers' Union. and who succeeded Buchan-
/ an as president Of Labor's National
/ Peace Council.
Like Taylor, Herman Schulteis, an
other of the defendants, comes from
/ New Jersey. He is the only one OF the
+ defendants, except Rintelen, who bears
n German name. but in the summing up
to the jury it is expected that Frank
F Moss will make the most of the fact
that the father of Schulteis raised n
company for the Union in 1861 and died
in action at Gettysburg.
The last Of the defendants is Henry
B. Martin. Of Washington. d. C., who,
until Labor's Peace Council began to
be moulded by one of Germany's arch
plotters, was known for his connection
3 with the Antitrust League.
Z Co-Defendants, Distrust Lamar
{ And it can be said without betraying
any secrets that these six distrust the
! Wolf of Wall Street a. much as they
DO Rintclen. and that fear of the Wolf
had as much to do with the calling of
the conference in Mr.. Moss Office yes
terday as anything else.
The Wolf gave them reason FOR their
fears, for yesterday he was cioseted
with the counsel for the government
for nearly two hours. And what he
may do may only be surmised.