OCR Text |
Show .AMERIC'AN YOUTH ISffl pp ; ; ;;accusedxas sry Now ' Yorlt Oct. 8. Kenneth O. lriest, 19 years old who. disappeared froin, l'rjncoton university Jasi January Jan-uary while a student there, Is a ,' prisoner in London, nccused as a spy, according sto Information his relatives rela-tives hero have received from tho stato department at Washington. Trlest is tho son of -Wolfgang" O TriosV a member of tHSKSHfrVrtlhg firm of Snaro & Trlest.,,.,, I The" father Is a Germanu! birth, but a naturalized citizortiO .tejVn(-ted .tejVn(-ted States. Ho has 'been ,1'ntormcd I that his son Is accused of ,'liavri enlisted en-listed in tho British navy in) 'order to obtain Information for Germany. Mr. Trlest said today that Jig- l'ad ?prosented to Secretary Lansing" of tho state department tho testimony of many of his son's acquaintances to show that tho boy was mehtally unbalanced and that ho had ,i asked Mr, Lansing to obtain-tho py'jrvdls-, chafgo from cusfy.aniiMGortatlou' to ,t,ho United Stales'vM Mr' Tr'iet-sald. Tr'iet-sald. Mr, LanslnS,-'a,ardVob1tnIn,ed' n postponement of tho boy's' trial. |