Show r. r ST STORY R GHA CHANGED CED BY Spy SUSPECT f i f LOS A. A ANGELES GELES June 4 UP Dr Hans liana Helmuth Gros and hl his wife Fran Frances s were convicted con r Thursday on espionage charges I t LOS ANGELES June 4 UP- UP Fear of the F FBI B I Dr Hans Helmut Gros told a court trying him him on I charges charge of espionage caused him I to a sign a statement statement ad admitting mUting he was a nazi agen agent Retracting various parts of ot the statement Dr Groa Gros told Federal Judge Ben Harrison I was afraid the F FBI B I would torture my wife If I didn't sign anything anything- they wanted me to Secret Secret Secret Se Se- cret police in Europe are doubtful organizations and I didn't know anything about the FBI Under questioning by Judge Harrison who Is trying the case cue without a jury the defendant admitted admitted ad ad- mUted he had been well treated by FBI agents and that he had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been threatened but I was wasco wasso co so worn om out after seven days of questioning I would have signed anything Dr Gros said there was no truth in his signed statement that Hitler's Hitler's Hitler's Hit Hit- lers ler's ranking high-ranking executioner Reynard Heydrich had ordered him to foment strikes and organize organize organ organ- ize sabotage in this country nor norin norin norin in his hi previous claim that his uncle Major Hans Bebert of ot the German military intelligence had Instructed him to represent the reich Teich in negotiations with the Japanese if the United States entered entered entered en en- the war sister still liv live Jive liven My y mother and e eIn In tn n Germany Dr Gros told the the- court ourt why I have been fearful of making certain statements statements state state- ments ments' that might bring harm to them Before I left Germany a gestapo agent warned Yarned me that sometimes have accidents d i ii i 1 If they ey dont don't watch out out 4 Dr Gros Gros' wife the former Frantes Fran- Fran ees tes Goellert also is a defendant Two of her former coworkers at ata a movie studio testified she told them Dr Gros asked her to assist him in aiding Germany Said Mrs Lilyan Gabel Frances FranCI Fran ces CI told us girls Dr Gros had admitted he was a nazi nul agent She said she was afraid of ot him We suggested she report him I f 4 |