Show H Hindu indu I TI T iria rial ial Bares Hun Elim Machinations a chin at ion Many Convicted Bear German Names Pl 08 cution Cost Half Million Dollars 4 M iC n nI I I Ram Chandra dramatically murdered in in court Prominent figures in the Hun-Hindu Hun conspiracy cases Let to right right- yesterday by another of Hindu defendants Jodh Singh who became the governments government's chief witness United States I District Attorney John W. W Pr Preston ston and Franz Bopp Dopp lormer German consul general at San Francisco now interned as an enemy alien I By Dy United Press I ISAN SAN FRANCISCO April 24 24 ty nine men charged with conspiring on American soil to p incite a revolution against British r rule e In India were found guilty by a Jury in federal court j here early today Only one of the thirty defendants on trial was acquitted He lie was John F F. Craig shipbuilder of f Long Beach Cal Ca Among those convicted were Franz Bopp former German terman consul general at San Francisco and practically the entire consulate staff Two defendants killed during the shooting affray in the courtroom at noon yesterday were not mentioned in the verdict The verdict returned at 1 o'clock this morning marked the end of or a five months' months trial which has cost the government approximately half a million million mil mu- lion dollars The began November November November Novem Novem- ber 20 and has continued f for r days BAIL FIXED AT Judge Van Fleet fixed the bail ball of each of the convicted defendants at Those convicted are are- Franz Bopp forger torger German consul general E E. H H. von former German vice consul Henry W W. Kauffmann former chancellor chancellor chan chan- of the German consulate Louis T T. T Hengstler attorney for the consulate I Charles said to be an agent of the consulate Walter Sauerbach lieutenant commander commander com corn mander of the interned German gun gun- I Geier Edwin Delnat captain of an interned German ship Heinrich captain fo an interned interned in in- German ship fy tJ Joseph L L. Bley Dley San Frandisco ship shipbroker broker Robert San Francisco agent of or the North German German Lloyd Harry J J. J Hart San Francisco shipping shipping ship ship- I ping man J J. J Cl Clyde Clde de San Diego attorney M Bernard Manning San Diego Insurance insurance insurance ance agent Moritz Montz Stack von San Francisco realty man Singh poet of the tile Hindu revolutionists I Das Hindu writer and professor Santokh Singh Gopal Singh MahaI Mahadeo Maha Maha- I Ideo deo Ram Sundar Singh Munshi 1 Ram Nidhan Nid Nid- han nan Singh Bishan ishan Singh Hindi Imam Din all of the Hindustani staff Gobind Behar Lai Lal student lecturer Dr C C. C K IC Chakravarty American head of the Berlin India committee Naranjan Das THREE PLEAD GUILTY Besides the twenty twenty nIne nine convicted I three pleaded guilty and will be sentenced sen sea with the convicted ones Those who pleaded guilty are I Lieutenant Wilhelm von Brincken former military of the German I 1 consulate 11 1 George former German Getman consul con con- sul sui at Honolulu II H. A. A Schroeder former vice consul at Honolulu Six additional indictments were dismissed dis- dis missed by the prosecution during the trial The Tho case was vas given to the jury at 6 G 05 p p. p m m. yesterday and the verdict was returned and read at 1 a a. a m. m today TRAGEDY IN COU COURT T. T T The closing day lay of the trial was climaxed yeste day when Just as court adjourned for the noon recess Ram Earn Singh a defendant shot awl killed Ram Chandra another defendant and fired three more shots wild wildly I aint t the courtroom United States Ma Mashal Mashal MaI Ma James Holohan shot Ram Earn I dead in his tracks an instant later By SWan Stuart G. G Masters With the conclusIon lon of ot tho the German- German Hindu trials In the federal court at San Francisco there has been laid bare one of the most pretentious of Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's thwarted grand plots to disintegrate disintegrate grate the allied nations Its object was to incite revolt in India and thus divert British armies from the western front To this end Berlin used the United States as a br breeding ground for sedition sedition sedition sedi sedi- tion even before America entered the war I That it failed tailed was due to the alertness alertness alertness alert alert- ness of American and English secret service men who caught the threads of this gigantic intrigue in four continents continents continents conti conti- and the seven seas and wove them into a trap for the puppets of the Kaiser TRAIL LEADS TO BERLIN 1 The conspiracy as outlined in court had its inception in the Wilhelm- Wilhelm strasse ramified through New York 11 Chicago San Francisco San Diego and other large cities to Hawaii China I Ithe the Straits Settlements and thence to I the nests of disaffection in India It involved and arid exposed some of the I kaisers kaiser's most important and dangerous danger danger- ous agents in this and other countries Following a preparation through t rough I adroit propaganda Berlin planned to I supply its Indian dupes with funds arms and ammunition to be shipped from the United States to the revolutionaries Dr Chandra K Chakravarty head of the Indian Nationalist party I Ram Ham Chanda Chando editor of the Gadar a revolutionary revolutionary organ Bhagwan Singh who J A AS 1 S I succeeded Chandra and Jodh Singh I another Hindu were some of the I prominent I leaders aders accused of having been enmeshed Working on these oriental zealots and In turn being worked by some of those closely associated were many of the most prominent German officials I in America I CONSULS 1 IN IJ 1 PLOT I The entire personnel of oC the German consular service in San Francisco I Chicago New York and Hawaii was swept into the scope of the trials The leads went directly to the German war warlord warlords warlord's warlords warlord's lords lord's s official family Huge sums of money were placed at atthe atthe atthe the disposal of the conspirators Only a small portion of that fund accomplIshed accomplished accomplished any tangible results Grafting among the minor Hindu leaders the avarice of a smal smal army of American agents shipping men munitions munitions munitions muni muni- purchasers customs brokers and the like wasted the greater part of the I sack I HUNS USE AMERICA Because America credulously ImagIned imagined imagined im Im- im- im that Germany was as scrupulous scrupulous lous bus about her neutrality here as she sheh h herself the crafty agents found this country an ideal place in which to hatch the Hindu plot before I the United States entered the war Under the eyes of ot unsuspecting federa federal federal fed fed- era eral agents munitions were purchased ships were acquired and arrangements arrangement were made to use California ports and the Mexican coast as well as the Pacific Islands In fitting out a blockade blockade block block- ade runner that would take worth of ot guns and find ammunition to India SHIP CAUSES EXPOSURE The failure of one ship to meet an another another another an- an other and transfer this contraband cargo at sea caused t the te e eventual seizure of the munitions schooner and led to the exposure of the whole conspiracy con con- On American soil too was framed the equally abortive plot to smuggle over the border from China Into In India India India In- In dia a million rifles obtained from various sources The federal grand Jury in San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco had indicted individuals ranging from German diplomats and Hindu propagandists to big capitalists and a host of smaller fr fry but because the majority were beyond the Jurisdiction tion of the federal courts only 1 thirty thirty- two were arrested 1 men and others who were found guilty by a a. Jury early this morning of conspiracy to violate the neutrality of the United States through plots to te foment revolution against British rule in India Thirty were on trial and the only verdict of not guilty was returned in th the case of John F F. Craig head of ol the Craig Shipbuilding yards Long Lone LongBeach LongBeach Beach Cal The German defendants defend were not entitled entitled entitled en en- titled to bail ball the court ruled and the following were ordered Interned pending sentence Franz Bopp former German consul- consul general in San Francisco E E. H H. von Schack vice consul Charles dorff body guard to Wilhelm v yon von on Brincken military of the German consulate Walter Valter navigating officer of the German gunboat gunboat gunboat gun gun- boat Geier Captain Edwin commander of the steamer German merchantman interned at Honolulu Captain Heinrich commander of the steamer Ahlers German German German Ger Ger- man merchantman interned at Hilo and Henry Kauffman chancellor of the German consulate HEAVY BAIL REQUIRED The bail ball of each Hindu defendant was fixed at The remaining defendants and their ball was announced as follows J J. J Clyde San Diego Cal Cat city attorney of Coronado Cal Ca and former former former for for- mer paymaster of the United States naval militia Joseph L L. Bley member of a local brokerage firm Bernard Manning San Diego realty man and politician Robert Capelle local agent of the North German Lloyd Steamship company company com corn pany 25 Harry J J. J Hart wealthy San Francisco Fran cisco shipping man 15 Morris Stock von local real estate and Insurance man 25 Louis T T. San Francisco Fr admiralty lawyer 15 15 00 CAUSED BY FEUD Public Interest in the trial was sharply focused by a D. dramatic incident incident inci mci- dent in the courtroom yesterday when Ram Singh a Hindu defendant shot and killed kl Ram Chandra a codefendant defend co ant Ram Singh was in turn killed by a bullet from the revolver of United States Marshal James B B. Holohan Holohan holehan Holo hole han who fired over oyer the heads of the stricken panic-stricken crowd that was filing from the courtroom Just prior to the noon recess Ram Chandra was editor of the Hindustan Revolution The shooting was the result of a D. deep feud among rival factions of the Hindu federal authorities said and the dislike that existed be between between between be- be tween Ram Ham Chandra and Ram Singh had been heightened by a controversy over a parcel of ot land in Canada owned bv hy Singh |