Show t PLOTS BARED BY BYONE ONE OF PLOTTERS I IJ J Conspirator Discloses Plans to Blow v Up Munitions l Intended Intended Intended In- In tended 1 for Allies l EMPLOYERS ERS TRICKED 0 rl Stove tove Wood food Substituted for i ite in Order to toH t H U l i A Avoid VOl I E Explosions I iU H 11 Louts Louis Louls J J. J er San c an Francisco Dec 1 12 S 'S Smith star witness for or the tho prosecution r In In the governments government's case a against Franz BOPp Bopp Hopp German Gennan consul general hero here and e others on charges of or conspiring conspiring- to toi i neutrality testified to today a that hb hie had been promised a n. month and andi nd nde i e expenses with a bonus of or 00 for tor each e in in connection with plans to upset upset war n munitions shipments to the entente entente allies Smith him himself cl Is under on the the- same samo char charges es Smith said he first met Baron George e en 9 n a defendant consular r at- at 1 che In the the- German hou house e In San Francisco May 8 S 1915 Smith said ho Von Van of ot a a. shipment i of ot from a California powder plant blast to Seattle from where it was to tob tobe tobe b be rf to o Vladivostok tok Tho upshot of tho the conference Smith said Bald said teas as that Yon Von Brincken asked m mUI me UI follow tollow the shipment to Se- Se attle 1 A d to 1110 Up Un Binge Later Smith testified C. C C. C Crowley a a e and also one of oC tho the defend defend- its ts him If he would trail the 4 o Seattle arid and blow It up on ona a bargo In the harbor Smith said ho agreed to tl tt tta 1 this Von Volt also asked mo me If It I would tte de tho the d dynamite bar bar- barge bare e said eald Smith Von and Growley pron promised me mo 30 0 a a. month and c with a bonus of at for each explosion Crowley gave gaye me and tl they ey sent me Jo Io Pinole Ca Cal to get thoro Information of dynamite shipments ship ship- ments from a t I could not the German they mentioned The fhe rhe Hercules Powder company compan has a plant at Pinole Tho The barge understood to have been referred to b by Smith was blown 1 up In InS S Seattle attle harbor May 30 1915 1015 SmIth convicted of oC theft b by nn tn arm army martial court whet when ho was an enlisted Tn mn some years ago o was re restored to citizenship b by President Wilson so that he lie could testify Vice Consul 13 L H. 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C Crowley a n. detective detective de de- Mrs r Margaret et Cornell his as asI assistant as- as Sl I tans tant and Johannes van n. n r at present In Canada and The efforts of ot Smith directed It was sold Skid by br- Crowley to tp place bombs on onboard board the tho Maru the and the Hazel Dollar were given a humorous humorous humorous hu hu- hu- hu twist by bO his his' recitation of ot the substitution of ot stove stoe wood for dyna- dyna m mUe In one of or the thc bombs Subsequently Smith assured Crowley Crowe r. r he ho said that he had planted a 1 real oreal bomb upon one ODe of f the outward bound munitions ships Mr Ir Crowle Crowley at Tacoma on Ma May 26 25 6 1913 1915 told me to have a bomb read ready f for that night said Smith I thin think ir it was for the tho or the Shen- Shen s Rel el J Maru Maru-I Maru I cant can't remember which I I 1 placed fort forty sticks of or dynamite in tn a fI a suitcase split one of oC them Inserted In- In a a fuse ruse and wrapped the contents contents con con- tents In a a. square yard of asbestos I 1 though the tho fuse would last about three d days s vs Vas there an any conversation bc between tou ou an and Mir My o Crowley concern concerning In possible pos pos- sible blo loss o of life lifer United States District J Attorney W W. V Preston Interrupted tj c No No sir Smith replied Threw D Dynamite Into Buy ny 4 1 Smith then related his failure to place the explosive e aboard the steamer at 11 her dock He said Raid he throw threw some of or the tho dynamite d Into the thc bay and the hc remainder which was in tho the suitcase he got got rid of somewhere Later that night flight he met Crowley Crowle and told him tho the bomb had been planted In the ships ship's cargo That the the- same samo week saw similar at att attempts at- at t tempts to plant bombs on outgoing vessels vessels ves ves- sels fels t failed because Smith lost his nerve t en was detailed in one case after stove Move wood In another he threw the tho showing Crowley Crowley- a suitcase con containing I dynamite Smith said he substituted dynamite Into a ravine near the muni muni- tion dock dol at Tacoma The rhe per newspaper In n which it was wrapped dated May raY 28 1916 1915 is 15 alleged to have ha been found i In n the ravine months later lator and was In Introduced Introduced introduced In- In b by the prosecution toda today In evidence After an abortive e attempt to put a bomb on board the steamer Hazel Dollar Dollar Dol- Dol I lar ar Smith said Crowley disappeared d for tor fora a night The Tho next morning he said suid he I read of oC the th e explosion of oC a barge ha r e containing containing con con- thirty ton tong of or dynamite on-I on In Seattle harbor A few tew hours later ho lie testified Crowley Crowle came to him In tn Iacoma Tacoma Tacoma Ta Ta- coma an and told him to destroy lestroy all on evidence evi 1 I- I dence of oC dynamiting operations That morning he said they bought ht twenty acres of or stump land d at Woodland near Tacoma that Smith mi might ht have an ex- ex COM coso for or having having- dynamite In his pos- pos session |