New-York tribune., 1918-02-01
Boy Says That He Was To
Be plugged Full of
Lead" if He Told
Defendant Is Accused
Witnesses at Treason Trial
Repeat Alleged Pro-
German Talk

United States Attorney Melville ].
France announced last night that the
governments case against Paul Hen
mig, on trial for treason in the Federal
District Court of Brooklyn, would be
completed this morning.
Arthur Wing, chief counsel for the
accused former foreman of the T.. w.
Bliss torpedo plant, said that he would
move for a dismissal Of the case on
the ground that the government had
lailed to prove any overt act Of trea-
son or to show that Hcnnig caused
inc microscopic defects in torpedo
gyroscopc bearings, which, the govern
ment contends, were made with de-
libcratc intent to render torpcdoes un
reliable.
Threatened With Death
The last testimony introduced bv
the government directly concerning the
horoscopes, as handled in Hennig's
department Of the Bliss plant, was
given by Frederick Wciselmcyer. aged
nineteen, who declared that, after he
had seen Karl Hcnnig, known as the
stepson of the defendant, manipulate Il
gyro testing table he was threatened
with being plugged full of lead" if he
! eyer tod Lieutenant Francis l.. Shea.
the chief naval inspector at the plant.
Edward Doll, an Alsatian, employed
Tor twelve years at the Bliss plant. was
called. and declared Hennig had told
h,m last May. shortly after the United
States entered the war, that the Amer
lean fleet had been beaten by the Ger
mans and that hospitals in Brooklyn
We're full of wounded sailors
What did you say" asked Mr.
France.
pause which the judge did not stor
because he was bcaming himself.
81 got a boy in service, and | didn't
believe it. | said | thought it was \
German propaganda to discourage us
Doll said his son enlisted last April
as soon as the United States entered
the war; The young man had beer
working at the Bliss plant with his
father, and the latter said that as soor
as he quit Henng came to him anc
SAID 1T was shame for boy to qult
tine JOB to go into an army, espe
clally since the American army or nav,
would never amount to much agains
the Germans.
On cross-examination, Doll said he
and Hennig were friends, "although he
is German,' and that he had hat
many, friends among the German:
until they went to war and made mt
lose all my love for them"
Weiselmeyer, who lives in Jerse,
City, said he was given a job at tn,
Bliss plant through the Offices of Kar
Hennig, and that Paul Hennig, the de
fendant, suggested that he give his ag
E as twenty-one, so he might get NOR,
pay.
Karl Hennig Accused
! On July 2, he said while Lieutenan
Shea was in the testing room, he say
Karl Hennig thrust pin in the revolv
ing table on which a gyro was under
r going final test On the day before
he said, under cross-eXamination, h
, had arranged with Lieutenant Shea
= during a conference at Y. Nj. c. 4
to watch the two Hennigs.
He declared that Paul Hennig calle
Lieutenant Shea to a window to watc
a storm in order to give Karl Henni
i chance. He stated that July 2 was
j. Monday. Asked how he knew that, h
n said thunderstorm had occurred tina
. day.
), "IIow DO you know the thunderstorm
i" occurred tnat day." asked Mr.. Wing.
at was looked up"
"Who looked it up?"
81 don't know. Lieutenant Shea sal
it was looked up"
Did it rain that day?' next dc
manded Mr.. Wing.
81 don't know
r Mr.. Wing also led the youth to sa
that the storm came up from the ives
while the window to which Hcnni
called the naval officer was in tn
north, with bench. two and u hal
t feet wide, standing before it,
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