HUSBAND OF MME. GADSKI IS ACQUITTED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 187, 7 August 1916, Page 9

HUSBAND OF MME. GADSKI IS ACQUITTED.

Much, astonishment has been causei liy the termination of the series o charges preferred against Hans Taua cher, former German army officer, am which Tesulted in the alleged bomb-plot ter 'being acquitted in the Xew Yorl courts Dv a jury -who had heard pati entry the mass of conflicting evidence o a conspiracy to bk>w up the Wellatw Canal, and thereby prevent the passag of' supplies to the Allies from Canada •Judge Hand, in his charge, instructei the jurors that if they found that Cap tain Tauscher knowingly furnished th dynamite, or the pistols, they must fini !him guilty of conspiracy. "Testimony which I do not find has been disputed.' the judge said, "has been adduced t< show that Yon der Goltz, sent by an< equipped 'by Captain yon Papen, did g< to Canada, and, finding the cana guarded by soldiers, returned to th' Uniter States. The only matter in dis pute is -whether Tauseher was aware o the purpose for which Yon der Goltz am Captain yon Papen wanted the dynamati and the pistols furnished by Tauscher." Testifying in his own behalf, Ta.usche: intimated that he bad "been duped bj Captain yon Papen, former military at taehe to the German Embassy. whost recall was asked by the United State: Government. The- specific chargi sgainst him was that he furnished th< explosives with which the Govenuneni contended the others in the alleged con spiracy were planning to de3troy th< Canadian waterway. When the jury announced that the} found the accused not guiity Germar sympathisers in court became so a3ser tive that the judge had to threaten t<: clear the court. Madame Gadski, the prima donna, the -wife of Tauscher, was the centre of this German throng, anc she enthusiastically congratulated everj °ne of the "twelve good men and true' °f the jury. Almost sinraltaneously, at a special sessions court in another part of N-ew York, another German, who has beer ttnder a cloud of suspicion for several months, in the person of Paul Koertig, made his apptarance lo answer to one °f the many German schemes of "frightfulness", in which he terrorised Eastern manufacturers in their fulfilling orders to the Allies in Europe. He is implicated in most of the >bonrb-p]ot cases, »na on thk occasion pleaded guilty to a ehaTge of giving Fred Schoindel, an enrployee of the National City Bank of New York, the su-m of 25 dollars to steal letters and telegrams from the bank referring to war supplies. Koenig -was released, at District Attorney's Swarm's suggestion, on a suspended sentence. •Ivoenig now realises that the evidence collected by the U.S. Federal agents is incontrovertible.