Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-11
German Consul General at San Francisco, With Four Others, Found Guilty of Conspiracy Against U. s.
BOPP MAINTAINS
 COMPLETE INNOCENCE
Appeal Will Be Taken to the Supreme Court - Govern ment's Chief Witness Is Given Immunity.
(By Review Leased Wire)

{ SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.-Franz Bopp, German consul general here and four of his attaches or employees were found guilty tonight by jury in the United States district court of having violated this countrys neutrality.
 Guilty on all charges" announced the foreman. A deep silence was upon the room. All eyes were riveted ! on Bopp to see how he would receive the verdict.
 All five defendants were accused of having planned to blow up munitions plants in America and Canada, steam ships carrying supplies to the entente allies, railroad bridges and military trains
 Two actions were consolidated in | the trial The defendants were charg- ed with a violation of the act of July 1910 by CSnspiring to restrain inter state and foreign c ssfamerces by de lstroying factories, railroads and steam ships.
 The other action was for alleged violation of sections of U. s. penal code in conspiring to set on foot and provide and prepare means for a mili, tary enterprise to be carried on from within the United States against the territory and dominion of the king of Great Britain and Ireland. Besides Bopp, the defendants were E. NJ. von Schack, vice consul; Will helm von Brincken, J. F. van Koolber- gen, Margaret E. Cornell, Charles c. Crowley and Louis J. Smith. Van Koolbergen was out of the country and could not be brought here to stand trial as his alleged offense was non- extraditable. Smith was the govern ment's star witness.
 The grand jury investigated the al legged conspiracy the latter part of 1915 and the indictments were issued in March 1916. The verdict was reached at S:3O o'clock. Smith. techni. cally defendant, was given immunity for testifying for the government.
 Bopp and von Schack were released on their own recognizance. Mrs. Cor nell and von Brincken, who were re- quired to give $10,000 bonds at the time of their indictment, were given their liberty on those bonds. The court set Saturday to hear motions for an appeal
 A crimson flush was the consul gen. erals acknowledgement of the verdict and a shrug of the shoulders followed by a sigh and the remark to von Brincken:
 Well, at last it is over"
 Shortly after retiring the jury asked for some of the telegrams that had been exhibited in the case. These eX- hibits left with the marshal when the jury went to dinner but were called for on their return.
 None of the jurymen would say how many ballots had been taken.
 Consul General Boy said:
 Tn spite of the verdict must still maintain my innocence and we will leave nothing undone in our efforts to secure d TtNtTSdl- l cdHHOI say tHdt l am happy at the outcome but can. not say l am surprised.
 "Our case was very complicated and were allowed only three and a half hours to make our argument. That was insufficient time as it took Judge Hunt four hours to make his charge to the jury. We will appeal of course go
 Mrs. Annette A. Adams, assistant U. s. District Attorney. who conducted the case for the government. received the congratulations of attorneys and friends. District Attorney Preston be- came i'll before the preparation of the case was well under way and it was on Mrs Adams shoulders that his cloak fell. The strength of the gov ernment's case, Preston said, was due largely to Mrs. Adams careful work. It was Mrs. Adams who opened the case for the government and it was Mrs. Adams who represented the gov ernment in court tonight when the jury brought in it's verdict.