New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1916, Page 9

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1916. DESCRIBES PLOT T0 “ BLOW UP CANAL { Attache, and captained by himself. | Von der Goltz told how Captain von Papen and Captain Boy-Ed, the Ger- man Naval At of the opin- ion that an armed inv on of Cang da could be accomplished from this side of the border, Bernstore, the German did not regard the scheme with favor. Von der Goltz was the first witnes: called by the government to testify against Captain Hans Tauscher, the Krupp agent in tk country and the Fon Der Goltz First Witness -Against Captain Tauscher | nospand ot sime cassis, whe s [the attempt to destroy the Canadian canal. Assistant District Attorney Roger B. Wood, for the government, conducted the examination of the wit- ness and the defense was represented by Herbert M. Smyth and Felix D. Levy. Von der Goltz gave Wachendorf as his real name, and his birthplace as Cobletz, Germany. He said that he came to this country in 1902, served for a time in the United States Army, but “left” in March, 1913, and went ito El Paso and into Mexico, where —Showing s not even ruf- New York, June a sion that we nder a se > cross-examination, Horst von der Goltz, alias Bridgeman Taylor, alias Franz Wachendorf, told yegterday before Judge Augustus N. Hand in the Federal District Court all | about the military enterprise having for its object the blowing up of the Welland Canal in Canada, which, it Is alleged, was fathered by Captain von Papen, the dismissed German Military - AUTOMOBILE | TIRES a choice lot of Seconds in both plain and non-skid types and are pleased to quote the following prices. 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Says Canadian Panic Was Sought “Captain von Papen told me,” said, “that he and Captain Boy-Ed be- lieved an armed invasion of Canada was possible but that Count von Bern- storff objected. He told me that if we made a panic up in Canada they would stay at home and not try to help England. ‘We can blow up Saulte Ste. Marie, the Welland Canal, and the grain elevators and railroad stations,’ he said (0 me,’ He added that von Papen told him that he did not need to go to Canada, but only to get the men to go there. “Did he say anything about money?” asked Mr. Wood. “Yes,” said the witn me that I was to act “He told s go-between so that no one else would be connected | with the acair. I was sent to Balti- more by the Captain, and I saw him | several times at the consulate here and | at the German club. In his activities at this time von der Goltz was known as Bridgeman Taylor and a letter was introduced in evl dence signed by von Papen to the Ge! man consuls at Baltimore and Paul, requesting them to give the bearer, Mr. Taylor, their attention. The witness said that in Mr. Luederitz, the German consul, in- troduced him to the skipper of a Ger- man steamship and he detailed an of- ficer and four men to assist him. These came to New York, he said, but he sent them back to Baltimore be- cause he thought they were being watched. A check for §200 made out to Taylor and signed F. von Papen and dated September, 1914, was put in evidence. It was for expenses, von der Goltz said. He reported to the Military At- tache on his return from Baltimore and they di d dynamite at the German Club. Following instructions he said he went to Captain Tauscher’s office in Broadway, who was the man who could get the dynamite. The men he employed to form the expedition were Alfred Fritzen, Gon- vales Covani, Fred Busse, and Charles Tucheimer or Tucker. They were paid from §2 to $5 a day. He said Von Papen usually gave him cash. In Beptember he went to Tauscher’s offi and they discussed dynamite and fuses, He got a letter from Tauscher to the du Pont office at 90 West street, went there, and got an order for 300 pounds of dynamite, which was delivered on a barge off the Statue of Liberty. He went to the German club, carrying some of the explosive in a taxicab, and reported to Von Papen. He said pistola were delivered to him at Mever’s Hotel in Hoboken after he had asked Tauscher for them. ““We_were to use the pistols to make a clean getaway,” said Von der Goltz. Von der Goltz asserted he received fuses and eleteric generators when at luncheon with Von Papen at the Ger- man club. Witness Identifies Telegram The witness told of calling on a lawyer named Ryan in Buffalo and receiving money from him. He identified telegrams sent to “Steffin’ of Central Park South, which Mr. Wood said was Von Papen. From Buffalo the ‘“expedition” went to the Welland Canal “to take cognizance of the aspect” of the place. He found it He then direct- ed his assistants to go to St, Catherine to ‘“look around.” Von der Goltz said he was in Buffalo about ten days. One Beuttner, an aviator and manager of a restaurant in Niagara Falls gave him permission to store guarded by soldiers. he | St. | Baltimore | the dynamite there, and he and his men came back to New York in re- | sponse to a telegram from Von Papen. Subsequently the witness sailed for England and was arrested on Oct. 8, 1914 and held in jail there until he returned to this country to testify for ' the government. Von der Goltz on cross-cxamination id that at 16 he had been arrested n Brussels and extradited to Ger- many, charged with forging a lease, but was acquitted. Von der Goltz, he said, at the sugges- tion of the German ‘government. “I was arrested in Mexico,” he said. “and 1 was under sentence of death for two and a half monthas. T v s captured by the federals on the charge of Kuerch, a German consul. | T never tried to steal the consul’s busi- ness.” “Why did you desert from the Unit- States army?” asked Mr, Smyth. “I was forced to do so by German secret agents in Galveston,” he re- plied. Cross ed examined about the pistols delivered in the Hoboken hotel, he said that he thought Fritzen had signed the receipt. He asserted that he had obtained immunity in Eng- land just after Von Papen’s »apers were seized at Falmouth. He denied that he had been told that if he in- volved Von Papen he would never be punished. Replying to a question to what he was to receive for t fving, he said sharply, “I am poorar than ever before.” He added that he was voluntarily testifying and without hope of re- ward. 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