Show CROWLEY CROLEY BRINCKEN AND WOMAN HELD FOR CONSPIRACY Boer War Veteran Said to Have Furnished Bomb V Evidence to U. U S. S HIRED BY GERMANS GERMANS' Govern Government ent Believed t to H Have ve Located Important tant Witness i v V SAN FRANCISCO Dec 14 Baron Baron George Wilhelm von Brincken of the German German German Ger Ger- man consulate hereC C C. Crowley Crowley Crow- Crow ley a detective employed by the consulate and Mrs Margaret W. W Cornell CornE a secret agent agent in Jn Crowleys Crowley's employ were to appear appear before the United States commissioner today tolay to face tace Indictments tsa returned against them yesterday by the federal grand jury charging them with violation of ot neutrality laws laws Each of ot the three was Indicted on ott to interfere in- in two counts one of ot conspiracy with and destroy commerce stateS Of the states states- r between between the several union and ana foreign countries the theother theother theother I other of ot use of ot the mails malls to Incite arson assassination and antI murder I Ball Bail was fixed at on each count Counsel for the defendants arrested arrested ar all of ot whom had been previously t rested on commissioners' commissioners warrants had promised that they would appear In court today Directed German Plots It was charged at the time of ot 26 Crowleys Crowley's arrest on November that he was a a. directing agent in inGerman inGerman inGerman I German plots to destroy by fire fhe and dynamite ships bearing munitions to Great Britain France and Russia An explosion of ot a barge of ot dynamite in Seattle harbor last May ay was charged to him by government agents possession of ot evidence by the government government government gov gov- in the alleged bomb plo plots s which federal officials declared to be bethe bethe bethe the most vital to the case of ot any yet ret discovered became known today through the detailed report of testimony testimony mony alleged to have been given by bp Johannes Henrikus Va Van now in Canada Employed by Germans Van according to re reports reports reports re- re ports was alleged to have represented represent represent- of ot ed to agents of ot the department Justice that a a. German official here employed him to act in violation of ot the neutrality laws and that von on Brincken of whom he knew during the Boer Doer war hired him to make clockwork clockwork clockwork clock clock- work bombs in Thermos Thermos' bottles at a bomb with a bonus for tor each ship destroyed Van Jool ergen also alleged It was said that he was employed to dynamite dynamite dyna dyna- mite a railroad trestle in Canada over which supply trains passed to delay paid by traffic an and and that he was von Brincken and by a representative representative of ot the German government at the German consulate for expenses when he produced clippings from Ca- Ca Continued on 00 page 2 CROWLEY BRINCKEN Continued from page 1 S newspapers to show the trestle had been destroyed S Consulate Consulato Receives Bombs He also Is said to have received 1760 1750 In payment for services services I of ot which went to to von Brincken The newspaper stories which which he produced it was s said ld were ord ordered red printed by bY officials of the Canadian government who were directing van activities in an effort to trap the German agents in the United States Every detail of or the agents meetings with wit German officials with corroborating evidence was alleged was in this maimer manner to have b been en given to United States officials Van it was stated unofficially un Un- officially at Washington had been located Officials here Bal sald he probably probably probably ably would be brought here under a detainer warrant as a witness One bomb was delivered at the German consulate here hero according to van In the presence of ot von Brincken and an official who examined it and ordered more Lat Later Latr r this order was countermanded with witha a suggestion that the agent wait walt until excitement over bomb plots in the East subsided Other Plants Marked Plans for the destruction of mu plants at Aetna Ind md and nd Ishpeming Ishpeming Ishpeming Ish- Ish Mich were revealed today when there were made public the details of Indictments returned yester yesterday yes yes- ter erday ay agai against st three all alleged ged Conspirators conspirators in German bomb plots Gary Ind md and Pinole Pinola Cal also aiso suggested to an alleged agent of the conspiracy as a fertile similar similar sim aim ilar work Two fires and e explosions occurred later at Pinole at the plant of the Hercules Powder Poder company The letters containing these plans were three alleged to have been written to Louis J. J Smith witness for tor the government ag against Brincken Crowley and nd Mrs Margaret Cornell Specific charges were made that the three alleged plotters conspired by sending a letter from here August 8 to Louis J. J Smith at the notel Detroit Mich in an attempt to incite him to arson murder and assassination by burning certain buildings at Aetna Ind md owned by bythe bythe bythe the Aetna Chemical company and works antI and buildings at Ishpeming Mich owned by the Aetna Explosive i company of ot New York Conspiracy Alleged The indictments alleged that the latter was of ot a character to incite Smith to destro destroy in the buildings The conspiracy was was alleged to h have S ve had its Inception here May 1 1915 and numerous us dates and in incidents and antI the contents of letters were set forth S Smith was alleged to have been employed by the defendants at a month to further the conspiracy on May 8 The following day Crowley was alleged to have paid Smith to go to Tacoma Wash to obtain information information in in- in formation concerning the sailings of vessels from northern ports for Vladivostok Vladivostok Vlad Vlad- Russia Russill and arid other ports of the allies The vessels under scrutiny iny my included the steamers Hazel Dollar Dollar Dollar Dol Dol- lar and Smith was was sent two 50 money orders June 4 while he was at Tacoma Tacoma Tacoma Ta Ta- coma and August 1 l' l lyon von von Brincken atthe atthe at atthe the Palace h hotel t l here paid Smith 84 SO according to the allegations A A. ticket to N New w York was boug bought t for tor him by Crowley June 11 Letter to Smith S SOne One of ot the letters Jetters sent out in iii the indictments and signed C was dated here August 12 1915 and contaIned contained con con- tamed a clipping telling of a a 50 percent per percent percent cent wage wage increase to of or orthe the Aetna works Th The letter leUer was without punctuation and r read d L L. L J. J Enclosed S. S find clipping this stuff goes to the I am sure they here will give five hun hundred red for forea ea each h hand and newspaper clippings and dispatches dispatches dis dis- dis- dis patches to Lo show what do you think I Iam Iam Iam am and outside Gary In Indiana Indiana Indiana In- In diana let me hear from you nothing else els now August 12 the defendants were al alleged alleged alleged al al- to have put in the mall mail a. a a letter of a nat nature re to Incite Smith to burn bum buildings of the Hercules Powder company at Pinole Cal Cat There were vere negotiations concerning concerning concern concern- ing the d destruction of the Pinole plant according to federal officials who said that letters and telegrams in the the possession of the government showed that Smith fixed a aprice a price for tor forthe forthe the job and and th that tt the matter w was s put up to Franz von apen re recalled recalled re- re called military of the German German Getman Ger Get man embassy at Washington |