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Show VON BERNSTORFF IN A BOMB PLOT Supplied Money for a Bomb Factory in Hoboken, as Reign of Terror. NEW YORK, March 22. An alleged admission that money for the estnb Ushment of a bomb factory in Hobo-ken, Hobo-ken, N v., was furnished direct from "fficlalR of the German embassy at Washington was read today when the trila8 were b' gun here of six men harged with having attempted to create cre-ate a reign of terror on the high seas destroying vessels sailing from Am-prican Am-prican ports with cargoes for the en-1 en-1 lnte allies i The defendants are Captain Charles I von KloiBt, h chemist, accused of hav-hig hav-hig boen engaged in the making of the 'bombs; Karl Scbmidt, formerly chief engineer of the steamship Frledrlob Pet Grosse; Ernest Becker, electrician, and Frederick Karbade, fieorge Trae-del Trae-del and Wilhelm Parades, assistant engineers en-gineers of the same vebsel. Mow the police trapped thn alleged plotters aiter bomb explosions in 1915 bad destroyed vessels and cargoes worth upward of $4,000,000 was cited to ihe Jury today by Henry Darth. a detective, who gained the confidence of Von Kleibt by representing himself as an agent of Wolf von Igel. said to have been head of the German spy system sys-tem in this country. Yon Igel was an attache of the German embaasy and I returned to Germany with Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador. ambassa-dor. Thi- iJei.-. uvp s;iid be telephoned to Von Kleisi last Vpnl and told him he had been informed that Von Kleist had written to Wolf von igel. "I told him he could onlv see Von Igel through mo." declared Barih "I later met him bv aDDOintment and h told me that be and Dr. Walter D S Q Sle, also a chemist, were partners In the manufacture of tire bombs and dealt also in fertilisers as Mind. "Scheele, Von Kleist told me, had received $10,000 from Captain von Pa-pen Pa-pen of the German embass) to finance the bomb making, but he was In need i Deputy marshals brought into court a trunk full of bombs which weir t-v hibited as evidence against the defend ants. The plan is nUred to have been to put bombs either in the holds of ves sols about to leae port or to attach them to the rudders, Acids within the instruments were so arranced as to eat their way into contact with eat b other after the ship was j om oi port and cause an explosion. In this way, it is claimed, many a tire was jued on ships bound to English .md French ports The hend of the alleged plotters was said to have been Dr. Scheele. who es-caoed es-caoed arrest by flight to Mexico. i |