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Show TRIAL OF BOPP IS OPENED BY PRESTON SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 5. John W. ' Preston, United States district attorney, opened the government' s prosecution acainst Franz Bopp, German consul general, gen-eral, and titled attaches of his office, charged with dynamiting conspiracies in violation of neutrality laws, by asserting todav the government would prove that the defendants successfully conspired to blow up a barge loaded with thirty tons of dynamite in Seattle harbor May 29, 1315. He said Louis J. Smith, government Informer, told him he received a bonus of $"00 on the steps of a church here subsequent sub-sequent to the explosion. Preston outlined further the government's govern-ment's case by his declarations that In all efforts were made to place bombs on four i munitions ships sailing from Tacoma and Seattle earlv in 1315 and that the conspiracy con-spiracy extended to planned destruction of the Grand Trunk railway tunnels and similar structures of the Canadian Pacific railroad In British Columbia. |