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Show SENSATIONS IN THE BOMB PLOT New York, Nov. 16. The government's govern-ment's quest for legal evidence against the men higher up in the gigantic gi-gantic bomb and arson plots was given jtremendous impetus today. Dr. Joseph Goricar, the "man with the proofs," arrived in town late in the afternoon. Three hours later he "was deep In conference with Captain William M. Offley, division superintendent superin-tendent of the department of justice; Chief William J. Flynn of the secret service and other government officials. offi-cials. The conference continued most of the night. In exhaustive detail Dr. Goricar repeated his sensational charges against foreign diplomats, wily American financiers and their allies. Other developments today were: First Lieutenant Robert Fay changed his mind again He refused to continue his "confession" begun on Monday. He announced that ho would plead not' guilty to the charge of conspiracy in the bomb plot. His counsel entered demurrers to- the indictment. in-dictment. Second The government announced an-nounced that the trial of tho five officials of-ficials of the Hamburg-American, line will be fraught with sensations. The Hamburg officials will be brought to trial on Thursday of Friday in the criminal branch of the United States district court. "We expect to call at least 100 wiU nesses," said Assistant United States Attorney Roger G. Wood "Some of these witnesses have been brought from as far as San Francisco and P'rkenhead, England. Tho trial will probably cost the government $100.-000. $100.-000. "These witnesses will testify that the German government some time ago turned over to the Hamburg-American Hamburg-American line officials large sums of money for propaganda purposes. "The money was turned over to the officials by a diplomatic agent of the German government," said Mr. Wood. "His nnmo will appear in 'the testimony," testi-mony," Tho defendants are charged with conspiracy to defraud tho United States by filing false customers manifests. mani-fests. This, the government claims, was to conceal the forwarding of supplies sup-plies to raiding German cruisers in the north and south Atlantic. |
