Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-15
BROKERS Give Testimony In New York
Inquiry That They Tried 10
Buy Alleged supply.
TELL OF BIG GERMAN PLOT
GERMAN NAMED AS AGENT
Gustav LOSING, NnturniiEcd Citizen
Tried a. sell shipments said
10 BC stored.

NEW YORK, May Inquiry
by the state attorney generals office
today into reports OF boarding OF
ammunition In the United states by
German agents developed testimony
by New y ork brokogs and others
that they doubted the existence OF
one million Mauser rifles and ono
billion cartridges which they had
tried to buy or sell.
one OF the witnesses, Edgar 4.
Holmes Of New York, testified that
he had been Informed by James H.
Crossley that the rifles had been
smuggled from Krupp works at
Essen>at would be used in an effort
to "Germanize" the United States II
the Germans should capture the
channel ports
Gustav Lussing. who was born in
the German privince of Schleswig-
Holstein and was naturalized thirty
years ago, was mentioned most often
IN the testimony. Most OF the wit
nesses testified Chat he tried to sell
the rifles, but one claimed that he
mad tried to buy 100000. Lussing
was described by his lawyer, William
H. Ford OF New York. AZ a New
Jersey farmer and promoter inter
estcd in coke oven and monorail
projects"
lussing Present.
Lussing was at the hearing under
subpoena but was not asked to tes-
uiy, Deputy Attorney General Beck
.r III ad)ohrning the hearing until
tomorrow said:
Afr
everything that is said here" IL is
understood that Lnssing will testify
later
The nearest identification of the
owners OF the rifles was in ;estl-
mony by Hartford T.. Marshall, n
New York lawyer. that they we're
Americans who feared to
endanger their regulations by dis
closing themselves A Mr., Richards
OF Philadelphia was named by Mar
shall as one of the possible princi-
pals.
reference was made in Ford's
testimony TO the Bridgeport Proiec-
lille company, a German-owned mu.
nitions conLCrn, and to Joseph II.
Hoadley, but they we're not named as
possible owners OF the rifles.
After testifying that a statement
attributed TO HIN that he could see
the storage place OF the rifles from
his office window was a lie" Ford
rocanted ana admitted he might
have made such a statement in re-
lation TO small quantity of rifles
Had Heard Reports.
Various witnesses testified to hay-
ing heard reports that the rifles were
stored in forty different parts of tho
United States, on farm that was
only an hour and half from Broad
way by automobile, and In ware
houses on the east side OF Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn. one report was
related OF dinner of German Of
ficers including Captain Hans
former agent of the
Krupps ere, at the German club In
New York followed by an automobile
trip 10 the hiding place of the rifles
The most definite testimony as to
the location of the rifles was given
by Francis l.. Judd. a New York
buy them for the Russian govern
ment. A man whose name no said
he did not recall took him to a store
house on Liberty street, east side
he said. and showed him
an old gatling gun, couple OF old
Colts, "A one-pound field piece and
cases said to contain rifles and car
ridges. Three cases were open.
Five rifles were in each. one was
II apparently was a
Mauser. the witness said. Judd left
.he hearing with secret service
agent to try TO identify the build
ng
The testimony revealed that all
Efforts to buy or sell the rifles had |
ceased two months ago when tho |
United states, through Mai Nicho- |
as Biddie Of the army intelligence |
bureau. tried to buy them. Major /
3Iddle attended the investigation.