Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-07-20 | Page 17 | Huerta's Plans in U. S. Told

KITH PLANS ' I li S. TOLD Late President of Mexico', Came in Interest of German ; Government. CHICAGO, July 19. The assertion that tho late Victoriano Huerta, President Pres-ident of Mexico, came to the United States after he was ousted from the presidency in tho interests of the German Ger-man government and with the intent to cause war between Mexico and this ' country was made on the witness; stand today by Gaston B. Means, dur- ing his testimony regarding an alleged : second will prepared by the late James i C. King. Means was a witness at a hearing held as a result of the attempt of certain heirs to have a will admit-1 ted to probate. ! During his testimony Means brought in the names of Count pn Bernstorff.i J. Pierpont Morgan.- Captain Boy-Ed I and Secretary Daniels. Means said that in 1915, be was told by a German official that Huerta would come to the United States In the interests of the German govern-1 ment and that he later would return to Mexico and attempt to embroil the ( southern republics and the United; Slates. The witness said he communicated com-municated this information to a detec- 1 live agency which brought about the arrest of Huerta. He added that his1 action caused him to be dismissed by Captain Boy-Ed from the employ of; the German embassy. Later, the witness said, he h'eld con- 1 ferences with Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary sec-retary to the p'resldent. Secretary Daniels, J. Pierpont Morgan and John R. Rathbon, editor of the Providence, Rhode Island Journal, at which he gave these gentlemen information which resulted in the arrest of WernerHorn Wer-nerHorn while enroutc to blow up a bridge over which Canadian troops were being shipped. He testified he had warned government officials of tho destruction of the parliament buildings at Ottawa. Deceived German Agents "Some German agents knew I was on familiar terms with Captain Boy-Ed." Boy-Ed." the witness testified, "and assumed as-sumed anything ihoy said to mo would go no further. I listened to all they had to say and reported it" Means said that Mrs. Maude C. King, of whose murder he recently was acquitted, was interested with him ti-nancially ti-nancially in supplying the German government with rubber, in violation of the Anglo-American trade agreement. agree-ment. He said Germany still owed Mrs. King's estate approximately ?1G7.000 as a result of these transactions. trans-actions. The- witness announced that he had been ordered by the department of justice to report to tho local bureau to assist the authorities in unearthing German plots in the United States.