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Show ACCUSED OF THEFT OF 480,000 MARKS By PAUL WILLIAMS. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) I COBL.ENZ, Sept. 7.--John Gottekine, second lieutenant, Q. M. C, is charged with stealing from Ontabaur in June the payroll of the Fifth artillery, amounting to 480,000 marks. He went to unoccupied Germany and just naturally drifted into Hoeningon, in Alsace, where he was born. A t Freiburg, not far from Strassburg, Gottekine one June night discussed a murder which had been committed at Hoeningon. The German police overheard over-heard him talking. On suspicion that he might be needed as a witness, they arrested him. To the police Gottekine asserted he had been placed in charge of the American commissary and had i stolen 30,0)0 marks. His story explained his possession of that sum. The case was referred to the court at Leipzig, where Gottekine confessed the truth. The .Leipzig court announced it had no interest in American prosecution and instructed the police to turn Gottekine Gotte-kine loose. But the prosecutor notified the district attorney or somebody that holds dnwn a job like, that, who communicated tho information in-formation to American headquarters. This explains how it happened that Gottekine, took an automobile tour yesterday yes-terday from Krieburg t Cohlcnz. Just what became cf tho other -150.000 marks Gottekine himself must explain. |