Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-30 | Page 4 | Swift will Stand by Count Minotto

SWIFT WILL STAND BY CBIT MINOTTO ' By International News Service. ! CHICAGO. Oct. 29. Evidence that may l result in the deportation of Count James i Minotto will be presented to the department depart-ment of immigration at Wa shins ton, according ac-cording to a statement made tonight by Dr. Percy L. Prentis, Chicago immigration immigra-tion commissioner. -- Count Minotto was arrested in New York for alleged pro-German activities. He is a son-in-law of Louis I". .Swift, Chicago packer. Henry Veeder, attorney for the .Swifts, said tonight: - "Minotto is a good American. He made no attempt to conceal that he was born in Berlin when he attempted to enter the government intelligence service." By International News Service. NEW YORK. Oct. 29. Louis F. Swift, millionaire packer, whose son-in-law. Count James Minotto, was arrested on charges of pro-German activities, left for Chicago this evening to come to the at of the aei.-uwed count. "I am sure there is some mistake," he said, "t have eveiy confidence in Jim. 1 can't believe that he is guilty of any offense. He is a ft no boy and I am going to ft and hy him." With the arrival today of government officials from Chicago it became known that Count Minotto was arrested on information in-formation gathered from the seJssed papers of Fritz Kuhn and George von Seebccli. t lie wealthy Germans who were recently interned at Ellis island. The tbree were close friends iiid intimates of Count von Bernstorff. whom they visited at the Ritz-Carlton Ritz-Carlton and at the Bernstorff summer j place at Cedarhurst. Is. I. Kuhn and Vor Seebeek attended Count Minotto's wed- ding in Chicago and accompanied him an-! his bride on a honeymoon trip to -fc'oHln America. District Attorney Clyne spent several hours with federal officials this afternoon examining the papers of Kuhn ai)d Von Seebeek. Although Mr. Clyne denied that he was interested in fount Minotto's. case, a dis-r patch from Chicago tonight said the United Unit-ed Slates attorney was here to eoller-t depositions against Minotto for the hearing hear-ing in Chicago.