Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-22 | Page 7 | Bopp on Stand in His Defense

BOPP ON STAND STANDi I i IN HIS DEFENSE F i German Consul General Explains Explains Explains Ex- Ex plains Employment of Confidential Agents s San Francisco Doc Dec 21 Franz 21 Bopp opp German consul general In San Francisco Francisco FrancIsco Fran Fran- cisco cisco took the stand Jn In n Ills own behalf c today toda In the governments government's suit sulL alleging conspiracy on the part of oC the thA German consular officer to hinder er and destroy munitions shipments to the entente v Allies HopI Hopp and six others arc aro under Indictment including ln Louis 1 J. J Smith the governments government's chief w Dopp Bopp was on the stand but a no short hort time when court adjourned Ho lie i probablY rob rob- ablY will VIII complete his direct testimony tomorrow lie He conceded tod today that Vice Consul E E. H 11 Hon von on Schack had employed ed edT T i-C i C C Crowley a detective c and Smith Smith K a former Cormer dynamite factory h hand during l r Bopp Bopp's s absence in III the early months of or the war Ho insisted however howe in line r ft with the general 1 policy of ot the defense defence II tho two t men were Vero engaged as CUI agents to furnish evidence of ot ft entente violations violation of or American neutral neutral- lf r Ity and not to plant bombs hombs In Jn enemy 1 ships ship trains and tunnels i i. i Bopp's accession to the thc stand followed the sudden fainting In court of oC Alonzo Smith of Wheeling W Va a nephew of oC Louis J J. J Smith who had 1 testified I that hat Smith had boasted of expecting to receive from Crom the United States government for his t testimony Tho The lad completed complete hl his i brief bit of evidence evidence evidence evi evi- dence and then let his hea head fall on his chest later going Into convulsions con In InI Inthe I the chambers of oC Presiding United States Circuit Judge William H. H Hunt Li F He was removed to a hospital Ft c Earlier In the day a searching cross cross- 1 examination eXl of ot Von on Schack U by the prosecution ha had elicited that Vont Von Yon K t Schack had hid comparatively little authority authority author author- It ity in the tho consulato consulate Bopp alone had access to the strong box In the consulate consulato con con- safe he ho had hall testified On Jul July i 28 8 1915 the date when Smith sa says s he hewa was wa paid 1254 80 SO for alleged c attempts to to blow blo up ships and and tunnels tunnel Bopp Hopp alone accor according to Von Schack was authorized authorised to extract the necessary sum Von Yon Schack testified however that Smith had he been en paid about following threats of ot prosecution in order order order or- or der to forestall forestal nn nay any trouble Wo 0 were pressing the British ro- ro crl case In tho the courts at the time and did not wish to become Involved I j In the newspapers newspapers he said