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Show ELIES 3 MEN FOR ! eOLT PLOT Former San Francisco1 Shipping Man in List of Hindu's Attorney. j SAX FRANCISCO, March 1. Fred ! J. Jebsen, a former San Francisco ship- ! ping man, Lieutenant AVilhelm von ! Bririeken of the German army and Cap- tain Franz von Papen, military attache at-tache of the German embassy, should be held responsible for an alleged con i spiracy in this country to overthrow British rule in India, according to a statement today of Attorney Theodore Roche in the trial of thirty of the alleged al-leged conspirators here. Roche is chief counsel for the defense. Former German Ger-man consular officials here, American shipping men and lawyers and Hindus make up the list of defendants. Roche flatly denied that the steamer Maverick was purchased by these conspirators con-spirators to engage in the transportation transporta-tion of arms and ammunition from this country to India, as the prosecution charged. "f am not representing the German government, the German embassy or any German consular office despite statements to the contrary, ' Koche stated. "We will show that the German consulate con-sulate here had nothing to do with the alleged conspiracy. If there was any German connection with this supposed plot, the German embassy must be held responsible. "We will show that Fred Jebsen went to Washington and conferred with Von Papen there. Wo will show that Von Papen came to Seattle and called Von Brineken from this city to consult with him there. "Von Brirtcken had no connection with the German consulate here. All of his activities were carried on through the embassy at Washington. We will show that Jebsen conducted no negotiations nego-tiations with the German consulate here in regard to this alleged conspiracy. "John F. Craig, a Long Beach shipbuilder, ship-builder, who is one of the defendants here, w-as given contracts for shipbuilding shipbuild-ing by the 'government subsequent to his indictment. We are prepared to flood this court with witnesses to prove that the government made no mistake in awarding these contracts to Mr. Craie:. " W. Kauffman, chancellor of the German consulate here, is an honored and reseected resident of San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Ve will prove this. One of his sons, an American citizen, made repeated re-peated efforts to get into' the United States army, but was turned down because be-cause of his father's connection with ihis case. "No money whatever was advanced by the German consulate here to assist i iii a military uprising in India, as the I prosecution charges." I |