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Show SMITH INVOLVES HIGH OFFICIALS IN CONSPIRACY 1 By International News Sendee. SA N FR A NCISCO, Dec. 3. German officials at Washington have been in- : volved In the spy plot charges against C. C, Crowley, through the testimony given before tlie federal grand jury by Louis J, Smith, alleged accomplice of Crowley, according to the admissions of a high federal official here today. i Further than this the official refused ! to izo. I "Smith made a splendid witness and I we ha ye corroborated every statement ! which he has made," United States Dis-1 Dis-1 trict Attorney John W. Preston today declared. de-clared. It whs learned that Smith's revelations ; have led eastward, and it is believed ! Crowley's alleged operations were direet-i direet-i ed by powers higher than those of Consul Con-sul Franz Bopp of this city, who admits that Crowley was his employee in secret investigations. Postal authorities today began investigation inves-tigation of the letter which Crowley is declared to have written to .Madame BakhmetiefC, wife of the Hussian em-i em-i hassador at Washington, asking her to arrange for shipment of boxes of dried fruit from Tucoma for Vladivostok in Russian supply ships. Charges May Be Changed. It was learned that the charges a era Inst Crow ley may be changed from those of conspiracy against the government to I those of misuse of tlie mails. I The latter offense carries a heavier , punish men t five yea rs t ban tlie crime ! with which he Is now charged, lie now faces a two-year term if convicted. J. Herbert Cole, the federal secret service man who brought Smith from Detroit, sa id the government had got the tirst in forma t ion of a plot through a private tip. They found mitli, and through him located Crovle-y. Becrttisc of the failure of certain witnesses wit-nesses to arrive here, the preliminary hearing of Crowley he fore Cuitd States Commissioner Krull todav was postponed until next Wednesday. Smith will he a witness then, as will men from Tacoma, .Spokane and other distant points, now said to be on the way here. Secretly Indicted. It van reported in federal clree todav that t 'rowley u as secretly indicted last 1 night by the grand jury after Smith hae" given his testimony, n ia believed Smith has been granted fmiunnity, I F.vcry precaution Iirs been taken to i prevent the details of Smith's morv be-I be-I coming known b-:'ore the net ran be tightened on the "higher ups" and lesser lights he is s:iid to have Implicated. Fnited States insirict Attornev Preston explicitly cautioned the grand furors not to divulge any of the fu.-ts made known by Smith. The sea rch for Hohert C;i jielle, local manaqr of the North Ocrmnii ' l.loyd ct. n i pa ny. is bei is nrtivtdv prnwecut ed Fnited States Marshal llolohan scouts' , the Liiory of suicide. |