Bisbee Daily Review

INDICTED GERMAN CONSUL DEFENDS CAPTAIN VON PAPEN

(By Review Leased Wire)

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26.-Franz Bopp, German consul general here, denied repeatedly under cross examination today in the United States district court, where he is on trial with six associates charged with conspiracy to violate neutrality, that Captain Franz von Papen, former military attache of the German embassy at Washington, had financed or directed the alleged dynamiting attempts charged against the local consulate. The cross examination was directed by District Attorney John W. Preston. Von Papen was in San Francisco during the year 1915, Bopp said, but his visit chiefly was recreation. It was in that year the government alleges various dynamite plots against allied munition shipments and Canadian railroad property were planned or successfully accomplished.

"It is not a fact that Lieut. W. G. von Bricken and C. C. Crowley, two other defendants in this case, planned to take service under von Papen because he had more money to spend on dynamiting entente munition shipments?" Preston asked.

"Not at all. There is nothing to it," Bopp replied. "Crowley went to New York under my direction. He had failed to obtain the information about Canadian military contingents for which I had sent him east. He had a letter of introduction from me to von Papen. It had nothing to do with dynamiting."