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Show CASE OF GERMAN IS TO BE IIESIIGSIED Alleged Birth Certificate Is Looked Upon With Suspicion Sus-picion by Authorities. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Aug. 25. Disclosures which are expected to bring a rigid investigation investi-gation by the federal authorities have been made in the case of H. Heinicke, the German youth taken into custody by the. sheriff 's office yesterday as a suspected slacker. All of Heinicke's personal papers, including au alleged Dirth certificate, are written in German, Ger-man, and the certificate does not seem to be altogether regular. Judge w. H. Reeder, Jr., who served a Mormon mission in Germany, was asked by. the sheriff's office to decipher de-cipher the writing. The certificate, which Heinicke ays was written by a Lutheran minister, is in the same handwriting hand-writing throughout, although there are places where two witnesses are supposed sup-posed to have written in certain facts. The paper shows that Heinicke was born in St. Louis on October 9, 1896, and was christened October 25, but the latter date lacks the year designation. If correct this birthdate would place the German beyond the pale of being a military slacker, as he will not be 21 years of age until October of this year. The sheriff may obtain additional addi-tional information from the official birth records on file in St. Louis. Judge Reeder also translated two letters written writ-ten in German, but these were from the young man's father and mother in St. Louis, and apparently contained nothing of an incriminating nature. Information has been obtained that the young German, in his capacity of book agent, has canvassed every town along the Union Pacific railroad in Morgan county and also in localities east of Morgan county. |