Show t I Phone Boy Poses as Kings King's Envoy F Fools s oo Financiers Arranges Loan 0 of for Alfonso of 0 Spain jl With i th irh J. J P P. P Morgan 11 b afi Accident Bares Pares Pretense In lii Indicted on Triple ChaJ Charge ge m I L YORK Feb Fl b How How a lo lii loa NEW V 1 a week telephone operator posing posing pos pos- ing as us His ills 1 the Marquis Marquis Mar Mar- quis quitS l mond dl di confidential representative e of ot III Ills Majesty King Kiting Alfonso XIII of or Spain opened negotiations with the time banking house of I 1 J P P. Morgan organ Co for Cor a loan of or to Spain and mcl by hy promising that Spain would enter the war on out the side of or the tho entente allies aJIe brought the tha state 11 department tin Into to the ma matter was revealed rc In ht time thu federal court lucre hero to today a tt when hen three In Indictments were returned against Edmond Rousselot under limo tho espionage e law was pr pressing his plan for fOI the time loan when chance cause caused his arrest unest on another charge and his castle in Spain quickly toppled Morgan Member on Jury William Pierson on Hamilton of tho time nn house was wa fOl foreman man of or the grand rand Jury which II the In Indictments in- in an and was familiar f. with the tile entire transaction because e he hewa was teas the tho member of or the firm to tu whom gloat the matter mattei was wag entrusted When hen tho tiro subject of ot tho the loan was hi IJ cached to the bank hank by Rousselot who had been properly Introduced by 11 W. W K E. D D. own owner r of ot the tho c 1 Hotel time thu bank hanl Immediate Immediately Immedi Immedi- ate communicated with Secretary Lansing who opposed the time loan l lo to lothe time the Spanish government through h han an Jn l and suggested that thai it II ithe be he taken t. up through h the thi ro regular ular government channels lot objected to this method of ot procedure procedure pro pro- explaining that the time loan was to be bo in made nd o pr personally to lo King Alfonso Afonso and hl It was because of this secret arrangement he could coull prom prom- Iso Ino that Spain was arts to Join john the time entente allies Tho The negotiations wore still un under underway er erWa Wa way and amid Mr 11 Hamilton had the matter Smatter untIe under consideration when whoa about three weeks ago w was as arrested on the tho charge charse gf of I falsely representing himself as Count Rousselot a French diplomat diplomat dip dip- lomat here on a secret mission and bein being unable to obtain ball was sent to lo Jail This Timis led to Inquiry and lie whole affair was lal laid be before before be- be fore folo the grand jury It developed that thai Rousselot numbered num num- herell hered among his confiding friends one woman woman from frum lom whom he had borrowed burrowed bur bor rowed rower on oil stocks of doubtful value but fur for the redemption redemption tion of oC which h he had pledged his hll ancestral estates I Inspect hl Another of his friends was a prominent a cress across who tol told the authorities she ha had been beE introduced to Count nou Rousselot and had visited visited visit visit- e ed an nu English warship n in the time harbor ham with him As s hi iris his credentials creden credeu- n- n lIal were we well covered ered with seals seal which seemed to ho bit nil all right the they were taken over the ship and amend n shown every eyer courtesy courtes she said Rousselot nou gelot established himself in ina a suite in a fashionable hotel and there received rece many many- letters which fIlch are described as heln being covered with crests rest and anti seals and u addressed to tu him as Marquis Count bunt and Kings Messenger These heso documents proved Iro c to be he loiters letters apparently written by to himself One of or them therm purporting to have havo come conic from front the King of Spain bore bOIc a large lare red seal Impressed by time tho stamp of the commissioner of at deeds of Westchester West cst chester chestor county count New York He ah also o had har n it rubber stamp bearing the words Ministre do de la Guerre which tho time authorities allege he lie heuse use used while posing as n u French diplomat hen When representing himself himself him him him- self et as aH the thc agent of or the time King of or Spain he used a crest cut from the time thea a advertising of ot a leading furrier l' l the they declared While ho he was a guest at the Hotel Ho Ho- Hotel tel Mr Ir Sto Stokes e advanced him hint 00 and one of ot the thc has to do with this trans traus 1 act action Ion |