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Show CLAIMS IOTA IS AGEOTJHERW Gaston B. Means Makes More Revelations on the Witness Stand. CHICAGO, July 19. The assertion that the late Victoriano Huerta, president of Mexico, came to the United States after j ho was ousted from the presidency, in j the interests of the German government, j wi th the Intent to cause war between ! Mexico and this country, was made on j the witness stand today by Gaston B. Means, during bus testimony regarding an alleged second will prepared by the late James C. King. Means was a witness wit-ness at a hearing held as a result Xof the attempt of certain heirs to have a will admitted to probate. Du ring h 16 testimony. Means brouph t in t iie names of Count von Be me tor IT, J. Pirrpont Morgan, Captain Boy-Bd and Secretary Dai dels. Mears said fiat in 1P15 he was to!d by a German ofrVial that Huerta would come to the United Slates in the interests inter-ests of ihc German government and that !.c later wojld return to Meio 2nd attempt at-tempt to embroil the southern repuh'ics and the United State:. The witness said be communicated this information tc a rictecti- c iiicnci', which brourh t about the arrcsi of Huerta. He added that his ac; ion caused him to be dismi j.-cd by aptairi T"oy-Kd from tbe employ of the German em hasty. I.atcr, the witner-s said, he heM conferences confer-ences with Joseph P. Tumu'ty. secretary to t'ic president: Secretary Daniels, J. P. Morgan and John R. Rathoin, editor of thu Providen-e (R. L't Journal, at wnich he gave these ccntlr.ir.cn In Ton nation which rciuliivj in the s.rrc-1 of Vorncr Horn wlrJi en route, to bl-nc ur a bridge over which Canadian I -oops p. ere being (Continued on Page Tnrcc.) cms urn wns AGENT OF GERMANY (Continued from Page One.) shipped. lie testified he had warned government officials of the destruction of the parliament buildings at Ottawa. "Some German agents knew I was on familiar terms with Captain Bcy-Kd," the witness testified, "and assumed anything any-thing they said to me would go no further. I listened to all they had to say and reported it." Means said that Mrs. Maude C. King, of wlio.se murder he was recently acquitted, acquit-ted, was interested with him financially in supplying; the German government with rubber, in violation of the Anglo-American Anglo-American trade agreement, lie said Germany Ger-many still owed Mrs. King's estate approximately ap-proximately $167,000 as a result of these transactions. The witness announced that he had been ordered by the-department of justice jus-tice to report to the local bureau to assist the authorities in unearthing German plots in the United States. m |