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Show BRITISH UNEARTH 1 : ALLEGED GERMAN SPY Man in Question Lived at the Army and Navy Club in New York. INVESTIGATION IS ON Suspect Moves to New Quarters in Same Building Build-ing With Capt. Boy-Ed. By International News Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 1C The Army and Xavy club of this city, whose membership mem-bership includes' some of the most prominent military men of the United States, began an exhaustive investigation investiga-tion tonight to determine whether Captain Cap-tain Newenhall A. Gray, -who has lived at the club as a British army officer for the last eight months, is, in fact, a German spy. The club's action was precipitated by charges filed by British agents i n Wash in gt o n . The British say that Captain Gray's boast of being an officer in the British Indian service is disproved by an inspection in-spection of the army rolls. Instead of being an Englishman, he is a Krupp export and a spy, they assert. An investigator, whose report is in possession of the British ronsulate of this city and the United States secret service, talked with an International News Service reporter and told of the charges concerning Captain Gray today as follows: 'jytDrlv 3 year ago li; Irish agent? 'ii?''65Hjf'l in Nov Yurk ' Hptain Xew-cnhairA. Xew-cnhairA. Gray, who asserted he had been a British officer in India. He sought the acquaintanceship of American Amer-ican army officers-, and through the kindness of a member of the Army and Navy club he obtained a room there. Attended Howitzer Tests. ay'Bv means of the club's hospitality hT has been able to meet many high officials in the United States army and navy. He has been their gnest on many occasions. For example, he attended at-tended the recent tests of howitzers at Fort Totten. ' 'British agents later discovered he had become an ordnance expert for various va-rious American concerns, who were negotiating ne-gotiating with England for war supplies. sup-plies. It then became known that he was drawing, plans aud specifications for rifles, hand grenades and large artillery ar-tillery pieces aud in this way coming into close and intimate contact with the British, French and Italian agents who are buying arms and ammunition in this country. ''The war office in London was instructed in-structed to search the tolls of the British army in India to determine when and where Captain Gray was in service. The reply came back that there was no record of such a man. Close to Boy-Ed. "Shortly after this Captain Gray took offices in room 801, No. II Broad-wav. Broad-wav. On this same floor, or only a few doors away, are the offices of Captain Boy-Ed, the naval attache of the German Ger-man embassy, whom Richard P. Stegler, the confessed spy. said was tho head of the German secret service in the United States. ' Another British agent was then railed into tho case, who poses as a Crertnan at the German club. He reported re-ported that Captain Gray was known to certain German officials who make the Club their headquarters. This and other oth-er information was then turned over to the Washington authorities, with the result re-sult that thd United States secret service ser-vice men are now working on the case. ' ' Members of the Army and Navy club declined to discuss Captain Gray until the club's investigation of ils mysterious myste-rious guest is complete. Colonel Oliver B. Bridgman, president of the club, said : "We are talking this matter over, but that is all I care to say now."' |