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Show BARON VON BRINCKEN, who defends himself on witness stand at the Bopp trial at San Francisco. ; VV Si" l PAY OF TIE GERMAN AnACHEJIGGARDLY Lieutenant G. W. Von Brincken Received but $150 a Month. SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 27. Cross-examination of Lieutenant G. W. von Brincken, German consulate attache on trial with Consul General Franz?iopp and five others for conspiracy to dynamite entente munitions shipments in 1915, brought out today that Von Brincken received but $150 a month from the consulate, con-sulate, although Iouls J. .Smith, whom the defense .claims was Von Brincken's subordinate,' received from $250 to $300. Smith, as a government witness, previously pre-viously testified that he was paid by the consulate to blow up trains, tunnels and ships on Puget Sound and tn Canada-The Canada-The defendant consul general and aides have Insisted that he was merely an investigator in-vestigator for them. United States District Attorney John W. Preston, after Inquiring searehingly Into Von Brincken's financial affairs, said : "Is it not true1 that you conspired with J. fc Van Koolbergen, an absentee defendant de-fendant In this case, to blow up those shipments and to divide the reward?" "Absolutely no," Von Brincken replied. Tliat Van Koolbergen, whom the defense de-fense alleges to be a spy sent by the British consulate here to involve the German consulate In legal difficulties, was "a person with two distinct natures," na-tures," was stated by Von Brincken today. to-day. "I Te told me he was the son of a Count Uumouecau of Holland, exiled for marrying a Swiss woman beneath his rank." Von Brincken testified. "We bad the pleasantest social relations, rela-tions, lie took $200 from me to invest in a magnesite mine in Canada. With ids wife be chaperoned my fiancee and myself, buying ?25 worth of champagne, and making me pay him for It. While he was in Canada In 1915 we corresponded corre-sponded as 'Boh' and "Jack, and he Asked me as a fellow-nobleman to look after his wife." Von Brincken Is understood to be a member of a German baronial family. "I-il er Van Koolbergen undertook to sell two mules for me from my ranch and bo absconded with the money. Then I knew him for a scamp. But I had always al-ways suspected him," Von Brincken concluded. con-cluded. Van Koolbergen. one of the seven defendants de-fendants with Bopp. Von Brincken. Smith, Vice- Consul K. IT. Von Schack, C. C. Crowley, a detective, ami Crowley's Crow-ley's secretary. Mrs. Margaret Cornell, Is at present in Canada. The prosecution sought today to sliow tliat all sums forwarded by Von Brincken to Van Koolbergen were really consular funds. Von Brincken's bank account and checks were aired in court to show that his own means were more slender than he claimed. C. C. Crowley, whom Smith has charged with aiding him to try to blow up ships and trains, will take the stand tomorrow. |