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Show DIES VON PAPEN Franz Bopp, German Consul, Con-sul, Testifies in Neutrality Violation Case. SAX FRANCISCO. Fve. 26. Franz. Bopp, Ciornmn consul hen tionicd ro-pcatclly ro-pcatclly under rrox-cxamlBation today iu the United States district court where he is on trial with six associates charged with conspiracy to violate neutrality, neu-trality, that Captain Franz vou Papon, former military attache of the German embassy at Washington, had financed or directed the alleged dynamiting attempts at-tempts charged against the local consulate. con-sulate. The cross examination was directed di-rected by District Attorney John YV. Criston. Vou Papen was iu Sau Francisco during the year 1915, Bopp said, but his visit chieilv was recreational. It was in that vear the government alleges al-leges various' dynamite plots against allied munition" shipments and Canadian Ca-nadian railroad property either were planned or successfullv executed. "Is it not a tact that Lieutenant G. W. von Brincken and C. C. Crowley, two other defendants iu this case, planned to take service under Von Pa-pen Pa-pen because he had more money to spend on dynamiting entente munitions shipments? :' Mr. Preston asked. "Not at all. There is nothing to it," Bopp replied. "Crowley went to New York under my directions. Ho had failed to obtain the information about Canadian militarv contingents for which J had sent him 'east. He had a letter of introduction from me to Von Papen. It had nothing to do with dynamiting." Much of the day was spent iu eliciting elicit-ing from Bopp the details of his money transactions with Crowley, a private detective de-tective employed by the consulate, aud Louis J. Smith, another of the defendants, defend-ants, whose testimony on the government's govern-ment's behalf formed the basis of the prosecution. Bopp reaffirmed that the consulate has kept no records of those transactions. transac-tions. The orginal vouchers aro all with the German foreign office, he said. Theodore Roche, chief counsel for the defense, said that Lieutenant von Brincken will probably take the stand tomorrow. The trial is expected to last another week. |