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Show "SPy SUSPECTS WILL BE ARRAIGNED TODAY Ogden Minister and Miss Deckman to Face Federal Fed-eral Court. The Rev. B. Henry Leesmaiin, an Evangelical Evan-gelical Lutheran clergymnn of Ogden, and Miss Augusta Minnie Deckman, charged jointly with having violated the espionage act, will be given a hearing j i this afternoon before United States Commissioner Com-missioner Henry V. Van Pelt. Upon ar-! ar-! raignment ten days ago they pleaded not j guilty. Leesmann is at liberty on a $2Q"r0 surety bond. Miss Deckman is a prisoner in the county jail. j The specific charge against Le.osinann ; and Miss Deckman is that they made an 1 attempt on Sunday, February 11, to pass a note to Ernest A. Leybold, alleged fiance of Miss Deckman, confined as an enemy alien In the war prison compound at Fort Douglas. The note was written by Miss Deckman and purported to ask concerning a certain loan of money from a friend of Deybold in Seattle. Leesmaiin was caught in the act of passing pass-ing the note to Leybold and was at once placed under arrest. For several weeks, during which she was a frequent visitor to Leybold, Miss Deckman was under suspicion as a spy, and on February 13 a trap was laid for her In the office of the federal censor at the war prison headquarters. A decoy letter was placed among the mail, addressed ad-dressed to her, and, after satisfying herself her-self that she was alone in the office, she hastily scanned the mail and extracted extract-ed the decoy letter. She was at once placed under arrest by Colonel George L. Byram, by whom she was turned over to the federal authorities and lodged in the county jail. All efforts to secure bail have failed. Since the release of Leesmann on bond considerable has developed which leads the federal authorities to believe that Miss Deckman has been working in the capacity of spy for the German government. govern-ment. The belief is entertained that her I alleged engagement to Leybold was i merely a blind to obtain access to the war prison, that materials might be fur- ; nished to be used by the prisoners in J efforts to escape. Miss Deckman has been a resident of the United States and Canada for about four years, having come here from Hamburg Ham-burg shortly before the war broke out. She has lived In Vancouver and Victoria, B. C, and later in Seattle and Centralia, Wash., and for a time in Spokane. She came to Salt Lake last September, shortly short-ly after the internment of Leybold. During the time of her residence in Salt Lake she has continuously expressed pro-German sentiments. For a time she was in the employ of an east side family as maid, but her actions became so suspicious sus-picious that her employer was forced to discharge her. She openly bragged of the fact that she could take Leybold anvthlng which he desired and that she could defeat every effort to search her for the discovery of things prohibited to bo given to prisoners at the war prison compound. |