The Alaska citizen., 1917-01-08
IN
 BOPP TRIAL Is
 ABOUT SEATTLE
Associated Prcss)

est in the first days legal battle in the resumption of the Bopp trial to- day centered on the testimony Of
 tered by the manager of the Van Nuys hotel at Tacoma. and mum, Der of people who were guests at the hostelry on the n ght of May 90, 1915. when, 1t Is alleged, the de
 fendant. Charles Crowley. blew up a thirty-ton barge of dynamite des-
 tined for Russia. In the harbor of
 Seattle And that Crowley. the al
 legged go-between, was in Tacoma on
 the night in question, was definitely
 established by the defense
 Mrs. Margaret Cornell, one of the
 defendants in the proceeding, is ex-
 pected to take the stand tomorrow.
 She is charged with aiding and
 abetting the alleged dynamiters.
 THE CHARGE.
 SAN FRANCISCO. Ian. 2-Franz Bopp. German consul general here.
 and attaches of his office, together with other defendants alleged to have
 been employed by him, are being tried in the United States district court on charges of conspiracy against the neutrality of the United States. Bopp and his Compatriots are alleged by the government to have planned to blow up intuition
 plants in America and Canada and steamships carrying supplies to the allies, together with railroad bridges
 and military trains.
 The activities of Bopp and the other defendants are alleged to have extended to various cities throughout
 he United States and Canada, and 70 have had their inception at, or shortly after, the beginning of the war The case attracted nationwide attention early last year. when the ] llleged conspiracy and the various outgrowths of it were unearthed by government agents.
 Two actions are consolidated in lhe present proceeding before Vii liam II. Hunt, sitting as United States district judge, the informal charge being a conspiracy aaginst he neutrality laws of the United States Specifically the charges are violation of the act of July 2. 1890,
 by conspiring to restrain interstate factories, railroads and steamships.
 The other action is for violation 1f Sections 13 and 37 of the United States criminal code in cOnspiring begin and set on foot and provide md prepare means for military en erprise to be carried on from within he United States against the terri ory and dominion of the king of
 Great Britain and Ireland.
 Besides Bopp, the defendants in dude Baron E. NJ vOn SChaCk, vice .onsul; Baron Wilhelm von Brincken, J. F. van KoOlbergen, Margaret L. Cornell, Charles c. Crowley and Louis J. Smith The latter Is one 0f the chief witnesses for the gov ernment, having been promised i'm nunity for giving his testimony. Van
 ioolbergen probably will not be pres ent, as he succeeded in getting out of the country, his offense not being axtraditable.
 One of the specific acts of vio- .ence charged against the defendants the blowing up of barge of war munitions in Seattle harbor In May, 1915 These munitions were alleged 10 have been consigned to Russia. Crowley, former head of detec- i've service of the Southern Pacific
 railroad, and Smith are accused of being directly concerned in this. Grand jury investigation of the al
 eged conspiracy was made about his time a year ago. The indict nents being filed February fl, 1916, and March 4. 1916 It is estimated
 hat 250 witnesses will have been examined in the trial now going on when it Is completed, and that the proceedings will have required al least five weeks to conclude.
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