The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1919, Page 14

VON BRINCKEN TELLS OF HUN MURDER PLOTTING JURY ACCUSES BATTLES THUG i Says Schwab and British BOOTLEGE last Friday from in a room in the La Clead by Oscar Johnson, a logger, coroner's jury found Monday The verdict also implicated Anderson, of Tacoma, who is held in the city jail. that he was an accomplice of fon, Anderson testified he smuggled six Aberdeen from San Franctaco. sald he met Johnson in an deen Ppoolroom Johngon charge Ia Clead hotel, ER ho tel, 221944 First ave, was shot the Tony being The jury held John: | had cases of whisky Into . He Aber took of the lqner and ft was\ave shipped to Seattle, where it was!907 Summit ave. was passing the supposed to have been taken to the/dark alleyway when the thug 4p: | testimony TO SAVE GIRL Holds That Anderson Plotted Seattle Man Shot When He Theft; Woman Slain Mrs. Edis Siltanen, who dled ‘& gunshot wound inflicted Thursday night Grapples Highwayman | Grappling with an uamasked desperndo, who stepped out of a dark alley and thrust a pistol | against his ribs, J. HL. Lesher, 54, of the Charleston hotel, battled | late Monday night to save a girl | he was escorting to her home, dust as Lesher forced the bandit's arm down, the gun was dis. charged and the bullet pierced | Lesher’s thigh, The thug took flight down the alley, and caped, ‘The struggle took place on Marton st, between Boren ave. and Summit Lasher, with Mra, Julius Chase, | | peared and ordered both to throw up| Anderson testified he made ar) their hands, enforcing his demands | rangements with Mrs. her rooms in the New Clarendon) side hotel, 112% Fourth ave. chase the liquor. Loback, a chauffe her, Laback Is Recovering Loback was i also shot down by the thug who killed Mrs. Siltanen.| He is recovering in the city hos-| Anderson testified that when he stepped into the room at the La Clead, a masked man jumped out of the closet and told them to hold up their hands. Mrs. Siltanen, in-| have become almost a nightly occur- stead of complying with the thug’s men, however, to this effect on the stand. The} ad- while when questoined, de —+ deliver the whisky immediately up HI on receiving the money from Mrs. “4 Mrs. Siltanen took $200 from her 7 strong box with her when she went trey to the room. It was gone when 7% the police searched her. Fo: C ma Driver Runs , ° PRO Ship Worker Yesler way Yesler Ba Inouye, a Jap, early his way to way. leadership cultivation of quinine away/ready several big users of power THE Had the thug along with| succeeded in firing the gun a second jeartier Losher would Bave been fa- | tally wounded, the police say. The| rious wound. Early Tuesday morning the police | robberies and shooting affrays that| rence in Seattle during the Inst few weeks. Three unmasked highwaymen en-| tered the Mead Motor Co. of Aw) burn Monday night and with lev. | eled revolvers held up Chester Bal-| linger, clerk, and made a getaway with $50, at 1120 p. m. They entered and two of the men made small pur chases. Ballinger went to the cash register to get change, When the drawer had been opened one of the) men poked a gun in his face and told him to step back. They rifled) the til. The third man then step ped in the door with a drawn gun| and covered Ballinger while the other two left the garage. All three drove away in the same automobile. | GLACIER IS FROZEN; MAY CRIPPLE TACOMA POWER TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 30-—Ta- |coma's industrial plants will be ser jously crippled thru tack of power unless & warm spell hits the moun- tain or rain falls, according to in- formation given by Commissioner of Light and Power W. I. Davis fon to the city council Monday. The Nisqually glacier has frozen, says Darisson, and the river is very low due to lack of rain. Ab have been cut off. Wednesday Will See a Flurry in Washable and Waterproof BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT THE SEATTLE STAR The Bon Marché THE MAKING OF THE PLUSH COAT Officials In @ desperate attempt to en cape deportation as an undesir able alien, Wilhelm von Brinck setfatyled “baron” and kn of the federal penitentiary MeNell Island, approaching the end 16, sioner of immigration at a re cent hearing that he was too tender-hearted to aki in the as- sassination of numerous Amer. foan and British business and military chiefs, Charles Schwab, head of the Beth lehem Steel corporation; Sir Cec Spring Rice, sador to the United States; Kitchener and other widely know world characters, killing, according to Von Brineker before White on August 4 Von Brineken’s exposure of the Sittanen in| py ramming © gun against Lesher’s|piot to remove Schwab and other Lesher seized the man’s wrist familiar figures was nothing new to purjand scuffed several minutes before [to federal officials She brought Jobn the trigger was pulled Testified at Trial Refore the, triat of 32 Germans and Hindus on charges bullet iaficted a painful but not #e-|fomenting a rebellion in British In-\ ened houses, and alinking away in | dia, which began in San Francisco | taxicabs. November 19, 1916, Von Brincke had not captured the bandit, but it is|and other defendants pleaded guilty.|!#h secret service operatives, work: expected & general roundup of suspi|In the course of their confessions |!"* under the direction of Saperin- clous characters will be ordered inan) Von Brincken and the other con-| | effort to put an end to the highway |fessed violators of the neutrality of Von Brincken and other members of the United States gave in deta the plot to not only “remove” as American customs brokers and | Schwab, Str Spring-Rice and others|CUbandout Hindu — revolutioniats, hat the former military attache but details of a plot to dynamite|‘ . . o|'dinplayed the yellow,” as Ram| Canadian railroad property and t set on foot an elaborate successio: of incendiary conflagrations. Was “GoBetween” | Von Rrincken’s confession to Com-| the federal courtroom in San Fran 1 men drove to the garage Missioner White, on August 4, was | nee re w but a rehash of facts known to fed. of defendant, Singh was shot and in-| eral officials since the latter part 1915. ‘Von Brincken's attempt to block |*hal James Holohan deportation at the end of his term at lived, he could have thrown consid. | MeNeti island is very natural When trapped, along with his co-|Uvities, and unquestionably would) violators of American neutrality, in| Francisco, nearly four years |Commisivoner White on August 4, ago. Von Brincken was charged and) admitted that he was the go-betwoen | Change of heart. for his chief, throw of British rule in India, A part of the chiefs. Pleaded Guilty By pleading guilty, Von Brincken ine idea of annansinating leading ped an ordeal on the yore American and British business men stand, and at the same time an and military heads does not coincide the hatred and contempt of his Ger-| with statements made to the writer man consulate brothers. Consul General Bopp, at that time the oldest German diplomat in the Your summer pumps and oxfords have many a good week’s wear in them if you'll but top them with a pair of these warm spats, thus com- bining smartness with economy. Nine- and ten-button styles are here in Taupe, Pearl Gray or Fawn and, in addition to being waterproof, they may be washed as often as required without losing their shape. Be weather-wise, style-wise and penny-wise—Buy Spats—NOW. 10,000 FLOUR SACKS 3c Each—35c a Dozen Some never used, the others well shaken. LIMIT OF 12 TO A CUSTOMER former Britiah ambas- Lord were marked for Commisaione Amertoans, Franz Bopp, consul | general for Germany at San Fran. | crafty and red of face, was the nom- cisco, and Ram Chandra, editor of the Hindustan Gadar, a revolution-/4uring the time his entire official ary newspaper pledged to the over “German Hindu | Eckhardt Von Schack, German vice | | plot.” as it was called, embraced the |Conmul, tall, ascetic, Prussian thru proposed assassination of American ; nd and British military and industrial/*chemes to plot the overthrow of on Death List [United st pecially w | ‘That known to eiala in F defection In point of service, os » Brincken’s fatherland” apparent to Von wk tn 1916 Von Hrineken, whe od at the German jeonsulate as nilitary attache,” ex preased unwillingness to return to | Germany Ills prewent fight to e# cape deportation is, to put it mildly, | predicated on the fear that a German sense of the fitness of things might | include a firing squad should Von | Hirincken be forced to return to hia native land | During the trial of the American, German and Hindu defendants in n San Francisco, Von Brincken was o# by the German consular tractsed | family | Was “In Deep” | Weeks before the trial ended, Ram |Chandra, editor of the Hindustan | dar, told the writer with utter nkness that Von Mrincken was in | | aa “deep as any of us.” As & matter of cold fact, Von Brincken was nothing but a paymam ter, bearing German gold to Hindu! revolutionists, meeting them in dark | equally knowr Brincken. of | n| It was only after a swarm of Brit- tendent Denham, “had the goods” on j)| the German consular family, as well | Chandra told the writer back in 1916. Killed in Court Ram Chandra was shot down in " cisco, on the afternoon of April 23, | | 1917, by Ram Singh, another Hindu stantly killed by United States Mar-| Had Chandra erable ght upon Von Brincken’s ac: | have been called as a witness before when Von Hrincken “revealed” his Altho Franz Bopp, fat, short, |inal head of the German consulate family was playing ducks and drakes | jwith American neutrality, it was thru, who engineered the British rule in India. Von Brincken’s statement to Com- Minsioner White that he revolted at by Ram Chandra before he was shot down by Ram Singh. According to Von Brincken, Vice Consul Von Schack ordered him to | arrange, thru Ram Chandra, for the |“removal” of certain American and | Britiah men of prominence, | Ram Chandra made no effort to conceal from the writer and others during the trial In San Francisco |that he was recelving more than j Siaee & month from the German consulate to further the rebellion in | India, Added to this #um was a much larger amount, garnered from rich | Hindas in California, Washington | 4nd Oregon, Dispute Over Funds |_ Aa @ matter of fact, it was a quar | | | rel between Ram Chandra and Ram Singh over the disposition of Hindu given funds that led to the murder of the Hindu editor, During the trial in San Francisco, a faction of | Hindus, led by Bhagwan Singh, re- |cently released from McNeil isiand, | split with Ram Chandra and his fol |lowers, The breach was climaxed on | the last day of the five-mofith-long | trial by the shooting. According to Von Brincken's tes timony before Comminsioner White, | Von Brincken rebelled against carry ing @ message to Ram Chandra, the import of which was the selection of a Hindu to travel to England and there “remove” certain big business and military men, Reached Berlin Ram Chandra told the writer nearly three years ago that the pur pose of sending Professor Gobind Behari Lal to Europe was not for | the purpose of assassination, but to recoup the rapidly depleting German exchequer, Among those Hindus who went to Berlin thru the macht |nations of Ram Chandra and Von |Brincken was Professor Chandra K. | | Chakravarty, former instructor of in- ternational law at the University of | Caloutta. | In fact, Chakravarty succeeded in |landing in England as a Persian |merchant, made his way to Berlin, {and ret rned to the United States j with large sums of German gold to be used in the overthrow of British jrule in India, | There is no doubt that Von Rrinck jen revolts against deportation to | Germany He owns a farm in California. | has friends He has no frie ficial ity. rela ntered a plea the neutral “, more than incken ex He nere. ro |doubt their dislike |to Berlin, When t lof guilty to violatio ity of the United Sta three years ago, Von pressed no tsnder iness. 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