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Show IS IEUT1 C01I mmt -purr Did Not Know, However, He Was Aiding Hindu Revolutionists. SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. George Rodiek, former German consul at Honolulu, Hono-lulu, helped to provision the steamer Maverick and jiay her crew, but did not know that the Maverick was supposed to be bearins a band of revolutionists to India,, according to testimony he offered here 'today in the trial of a number of Hindus and others, charsed with fomenting foment-ing an uprising against British rule in that countrv. Rodiek, who was one of the defendants and pleaded eruiltv to technical coniplic'.ty in the conspiracy, took the stand alter having been promised bv the court that he might, explain his case fully to the jury. He not only denied all actual knowledge of the conspiracy, hut stated that to the best of his belief H. A. Sehroeder, his secretary in the emnassy and his asent in the provisioning of the Maverick, had no intimation of the intended in-tended uprising. Rodiek testilied that in May or June of 1915 he received an unsigned letter from San Francisco, statins that the Maverick had missed the munitions schooner Annie Larsen at the island of Socorro and was proceeding to Hilo to secure provisions. Rociiek said that the letter warned him to stop the Maverick outside the three-mile limit, secure provisions provi-sions for her and send her southward to Johnston island, where the larsen would meet her. She. was then to take over the "Lai-sen's munitions cargo and proceed to Batavia for further orders. The letter was destroyed when the United States declared the existence of a state of war with Germany and the consulate was taken over by other interests, in-terests, Rodiek stated. Rodiek also testilied to having received a cable signed "Consulate" and presumed to have been sent by the German consulate con-sulate at San Francisco. This merely asked him, he said, to attend to the provisioning of the Maverick. |