| Show LOST LETTERS CAUSE FLURRY IN SPIES SPIES' TRIAL Vital Evidence Finally Located and Case Resumes NEW YORK Oct 27 AP AP- AP F Federal deral officials ls who reported vital evidence in the governments government's governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's spy case had disappeared were consoled late today when U. U S. S Attorney Lamar Hardy without explanation brought the missing documents into court Well VeIl there they are he said of ofa ofa ofa a book containing photographic copies of eight letters which had hadeen been een introduced as evidence in the therial trial rial of three alleged German sp spies i. i He did not explain where the exhibits exhibits ex ex- hibits had been found Seven of the letters were written by y Guenther Gustav 32 U. U S. S army deserter and confessed espionage agent for the third reich to o a German named Sanders in care of the spy rings ring's relay post postin in n Dundee Scotland Made Vain Search The staff of U. U S. S Attorney Lamar I Har Hardys Hardy's ys y's office it was disclosed made prolonged but vain search for forthe forthe the he missing documents before toay's today's today's to- to days day's session started For the second time at the trial a woman pointed from the witness chair hair to lanky Otto Hermann Voss in n the row row of defendants as one of f the visitors who conferred with William Lonkowski in his upstairs workroom Miss Senta de do Wan- Wan ger linked Voss with the case yes- yes erday Mrs Werner Verner Gudenberg whose i husband is a missing defendant in inthe inthe the he case rose from the chair and bowed towed stiffly at Voss when asked Can you identify him Friend of Husbands Husband's She said he was a friend of f her husbands husband's and also of Lonkowski who vho fled to Germany following his arrest by customs agents Mrs Mrs' Gudenberg's husband was employed as a department foreman foreman foreman fore fore- man in the Curtiss Wright airplane plant lant at Buffalo She said Lonkowski accompanied accompanied nied by his wife and a Mrs Beck came ame to their home in Buffalo in inJune inJune June une 1935 and introduced himself as a friend of Otto H Hermann Voss who he said had asked him to call callon callon on n us She said they conversed in German Ger Ger- than man man which she didn't understand I The government contends that on Page Pae Two Column Two Mystery stet Woman o of Spy Case Cases s x a C Ct t A I I r f o- o G n hc a. a is a id c Lt 6 REPRISALS AGAINST HER WERE FEARED II Senta de Put finger on suspect I i i Lost Letters Cause Flurry I Continued from Page Pate One Gudenberg and Voss an aviation mechanic turned over to Lonkowski ski for transmission to Germany aviation plans they o 0 obtained b t a i n e d through their workIng connections Claims Direct up Tie-up Gudenberg was said in the indictment indictment indictment indict indict- ment to have been an assistant to Captain Lieutenant Erich Pfeiffer chief of naval intelligence at Brem Brem- en The government also claimed he was a director of espionage throughout the Americas for the third reich Yesterday Miss 31 mysterious mysterious mysterious mys woman of the case said she had been under constant guard by F FBI B I agents at a midtown hotel because she was afraid of possible retaliation by Lonkowski Did you fear you might be threatened by somebody she was asked under examination cross-examination by Defense Attorney Charles W W. Phil Phil- Jr Yes she said I I know Lonkowski Lonkowski Lon Lon- Lonkowski kowski feels I was responsible for his arrest Lonkowski escaped after U. U S. S customs agents had detected him trying to smuggle American military military military mili mili- tary secrets to a go-between go on the North German Lloyd liner Europa He had been released on his promise promise promise prom prom- ise to return for further question question- I ing Among the documents found in I Lonkowski's possession was a letter referring to a Von which stirred speculation as to whether it referred to Colonel Franz Von Pap en former German chancellor who was ousted from this country for widespread espionage activity in prewar days while he was serving serving ing ng as a military at Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington D. D C. C |
