Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-13 | Page 1 | Plotters are Free on Bail Surety Bonds Furnished

Plotters Are Free on Baill 3 3 ? 3 Surety Bonds Furnished Y OCTOR ERNEST SEKTTNNA, at left, and Doctor Chakraberty, right. They U are involved In plot in wbich Wolf von Igel, shown in circle, is said to have figured. , V - - - t? K ' .' ' " ' ' ' ' - H if w' : - "'': ii - fen i'.i . ' ''"yrT X ' !' i ' ." mJ. V? I ' 1 All Must Face Trial on Charge of Fomenting Revolt in India, EW TOR K, March 12. Uermabia I. Gupta, a Hindu student at Co-l Co-l lumbia univ-ereity, arrested here i 1 yesterday, vas arraigned today to-day on a charge of violating the neutrality of the United Slates by conspiring with Franz von Papen, former for-mer German military attache to this country, to organize a military enterprise here to free India from British rule. lie was bound over in $5000 bail to the federal fed-eral grand jury, after waiving examination. examina-tion. The complaint states that Gupta acted in conjunction with Von "Papon and that Von Fa pen at various times paid to the student laree sums of money to send him to Japan in" furtherance of the enterprise. The bail of Dr. Chandra Chakraberty, another Hindu, and Ernest Sekunna, a German chemist, both held on similar charges, was reduced from $2o,000 to $5000 today. Chakraberty, Sekurma and Gupta, obtained ob-tained bail through a surety company a.nd were released. Dr. Ernest Sekunna, a German subject, a.nd Dr. Chakraberty were arrests in New York charged with having conspired to conduct a military expedition against a friendly foreign nation. Wolf von Igel, notorious Wei land canal plotter and former for-mer a ttache of the German embassy a t Washington, gave him SfiO.000 in one lump for use in ' ' Ge rm an propaga n d a " in t h e United States, he says. Von Igel is now on his way to Germany with Count von Bernsrorff under a safe conduct procured him by the United Suites. In raiding the ma gnificently furnished house occupied by Sekunna and Chakraberty Chakra-berty the police seized 10.000 aluminum caps, a great many documents and large quantities of chemicals. It is alleKed that the German and the Hindu had conspired to ship arms and ammunition from the United States to China, there to be smuggled smug-gled into India.