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Show ALLEGED GG-BETWEEN OF .BOPNDENTIFIED Two Witnesses Connect Charles C. Crowley With Seattle Explosion. SAX rRAXLlSCO, Dec. 11. Charles C. Crowley, alleged go-between thrnupb German Consul lleueral ' Franz lio p and others here, charged with having conspired to blow up Canadian railroads and entente munition shipments, was twice identified todav in coimectinn with the .Seattle dynamite .barge explosion explo-sion of May 3D, 191.5. "Yes. sir, that's the man," said R. L. Harries, a ttoker on the Seattle fire tug iSnoqufilmie on the night of the cx- ClosioD. ''That's the man who came on oard an hour and a quarter after the explosion. He said he was a government govern-ment man and wauted to make inquiries. inqui-ries. ' ' Crowley, wiht Consul General Bopp, Vice Consul E. H. von Schavk, Lieutenant Lieuten-ant you Briikon, Louis J. Smith, Mrs. Margaret Cornell and Johannes von Koolbergen, is being tried in the United States district court for conspiracy to violate American neutrality and tne interstate in-terstate commerce law. The blowing up of a thirty-ton dynamite barge at Seattle, Seat-tle, Canadian Pacific tunnels in British Columbia, the St. Claire tunnel at Port Huron, and other acts are specified. Previous identification of Crowley as a self-styled ''government man" who pressed his inquiries six weeks after the Seattle explosion was made today by Louis Boyd, pilot of the tire tug which rushed to the scene of the explosion. ex-plosion. The signing by President Wilson of a pardon for Louis J. Smith, for an offense of-fense committed while in the United Stages army in 100S, has released his testimony without a court ruling upon its eligiiulily. Jt hail been contended by the defense that court martial conviction con-viction for a felony had disqualified his testimony. The prosecution s star witness wit-ness is expected to take tho stand later in the week. Edwin Thompson, chief clerk of the Western hotel at Sacramento, Cal., last year, was the closing witness today. He testified that Smit li deposited $1M)0 in the hotel safe on the night of duly 28, 191o, and drew it out July 30. Previous testimony has been to indicate that Smith had .been performing common labor la-bor two months before. Mrs. Smith, wife of the government's chief witness, will take the stand tomorrow, to-morrow, it was said at the L'nited States district attorney's office late today. |