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Show EMBASSY PI FOR THE BOMB FACTORY Von Bernstorff Directly Connected With Reign of Terror on High Seas. NEW YORK, March 22. An alleged admission ad-mission that money for the establishment of a bomb factory in Hoboken, N. Y., waa furnished direct from officials of the German Ger-man embassy at Washington was read today when the trials were begun here of six men charged with having attempted to create a rein of terror on the high seas by destroying vessels Bailing from American, ports with cargoes for the entente en-tente allies. The defendants are Captain diaries von Kleist, a chemist, accused of having been engaged in the making of the bombs; i Kaxl Schmidt, formerly chief engineer of the steamship Frifdrich Der Gpjsso; Br-riost Br-riost Becker, elect ririan, and Frederick Karbade. George Praedel, and Wi'.helm Parados, afsisUnt engineers of the samel vessel. j How the police trapped the alleged plot.-1 teis after bomb explosions Jn had destroyed vessels and rargoos worth upward up-ward of $4.i)00.u00 cild to the Jury today by Henrv Birth, a atective, vho gd ined the confidence of Ynn Kleist by reDrosntin himself us an agent of Wolf von Igel, said to have been head of the German spy system In this crninrry. Von Igel was an a'tache of the German embassy em-bassy and returned to Germany with Covint von Bernstorff, former German ambassador. am-bassador. The detective said he telephoned to Von Kleist last April and told him he had hen informed that Von Kieist had written writ-ten tn Wolf von Tgel. "I told him h could only see Von Igel through inc." doUired Barth. "I la ter me.r htm by appointment and h told me that he and l'jr. Walter F.. Scheele. also a chemist, were partners in the manufacture manufac-ture of fire bombs anil dealt also in fertilizer fer-tilizer as a blind. "Scheele. Von Kleist toid me. had received re-ceived $10,000 from Captain von Pa pen of the German embassy to finance the bomb making, but he was in need of more cash." Deputy marshals brought into court a trunk full of bombs Tvhich were exhibited as evidence against the defendants. The plan is alleged to have been to put bombs either in th hoMs of vessels about to I-ive port or tn Ttich thf:n to the rudders. Acids within the inst rumenLs pi e si a rrn tiered as t - i pat t hrMr ' ay into f-M"ita't wi"h nch "thpy nfier the shin was w rll o;i t of port and on use an pvp'o-sion. pvp'o-sion. In this 'vsv, it is c':iin:cd, nany a fire was causcj L.n ships bound to K::ghsh and French ports. The head f the aHcc-M plotters was said to have been Dr. Sh.cele, who ea-car.eJ ea-car.eJ arrest by fl'gh; to Mexico. |