Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-10

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| United States and arrests Of these
| triggers aiCng with Albert Wehde is
cleaned from mainland layers which
! arrived here recently,
! Welde Vas arrested In Honolulu
April 26 ty United States Marshal
! Smiddy UPON the order and COM
PLANT o. United States District At
| torney Huber who had been informed
! CT charges against the German and
asked to arrest him by military au'
thcrities.
Tho arrest was che OF the most I'M
! poTtant and startling ever made in
| Honolulu inasE:uch as Wehde was. /
! prominent visitor here, an artist and
very much before the public He made
| no effort 20 conceal his identity when
he arrived here from a two years stay
| in the Orient a few days prior to his
| arrest.
Smiddy is now on his way to Chi
| Cago, where Wehde is wanted on a
| charge OF conspiracy against the neu-
.trality of the United States when this
| country was still at peace with Ger
I many. He is said to have been impli.
Gated in 1915 in plot TO stir up an
! insurrection against the British gov
| eminent among the hindus in India.
| SernstorfFe Relative Taken
One of the mainland articles in the
San Francisco Eulletin Of May l, tells
OF the arrest Of a relative of Count
| ven Bernstorff as an alleged accom-
pilce CT Wehde in the same Hindu
plot. 1t is as follows:
Baron A!hard Won Dem Busscha
Muench, a relative of Count Won
Bernstorff, former German ambassa
dor to the United States, was ar
rested here today by United States
Marshal Hclchan on an executive or
der. issued By President Wilson,
transmitted to Holohan by Attorney
General Gregory in Washington.
The baron will be turned over to
the military authorities at the Pre-
sidio and interned. as a dangerous
aliea.' He arrived here from China
last Friday under the name Of Kurt
Drummer and vas detained at Angel
island by the immigration authorities
for examination, with several other
Germans He claimed ct the time to
be a subject OF Switzerland, but the
department of Justice agents in
Washington have since learned his
real identity and the president Or
dered his arrest.
United States Attorney John w.
Preston will not discuss the statue
Of the case against the prisoner ex-
cept to say that he will be held as
dangerous alien"
"It is understood he is accused OF
participating in the arrangements Tor
a proposed revolt of Eindus in India
against Great Britain, fomented In
this country, from which it is al
legged hundreds of Hindus were trans
ported to India TO take part In the
alleged revolt plans.
Ram Chandra and other Hindus,
charged with aiding the alleged re-
volt plans5 arrested In this city re-
Gently, appeared before Federal Com
missioner --Traueis KruH today for
hearing. Their chief counsel, Attor'
uey Timothy Healy. was ready to Pro-
coed. but the government asked Tor
another delay Of a week, which was
granted"
Ainsus Are indicted
Another story in The Bulletin tells
Of the Indictment of the Hindps who
are thought to have been implicated
in the same alleged plot with Wshde.
r. Is this,
Ram Chandra, editor Of a local
Hindu paper, and six other H1ndus
were indicted this afternoon by the
federal grand jury On charge of set
ting en- foot a military expedition
against Great Britain. The defendants
had previously been arreste on coR-
nlissioner's warrants, and released
pending the action Of the grand jury:
This afternoon bench warrants were
issued for their rearrest and bonds
we're fixed at $500 each. .~-yg
Attorney Timothy Healy will repre-
SEM the defendants" ]
Still another under New York date.
line OF May is the interesting &C
count of the arrest CT two Germans
who were On the point Of blowing Up
the J. P, Morgan Il Co. offices when
caught By the police. In part it fol-
lows.
Caught jus: In Time !
Confession was made in court to
day by Wolf Hirsch, arrested last
night with George Meyringer, both
Germans, that they were en- their way a,
to blow up the Offices of j. P. Nor
gan & Cc.,ewith Tomb when inter.
copied by the police.
"Hirsch supplemented before the |
court confession he had made earl
Ter to the police that the explosion !
Of q bomb at the Morgan office was a.
part eli "a scheme to create a stock mar
ket reversal from which he and Mey.
ringer could profit financially. He
t Id the court he had made the bomb
under the direction Of Meyringer and
another man in laboratory at the
Roosevelt hospital, where they were
employed. :He said that Meyringer