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Show FOSTER SPY HELD FOR BUM. CHARGED WITH THREATENING; COUNTESS VON BERN STORFF, WIFE OF GERMAN AMBASSADOR. Self-Stvled International Spy and Mag. " azine Writer Who Bcasted of Be- -ing in Foreign Secret Service Faces Grave Charges. Washington. Karl Armgnrd Craves, I a self-sivled internal u'i'.al spy and magazine writer, was arrested here Saturtl.iv bv agents of the department depart-ment of Justice and charged with at-tempting at-tempting to extort SS.000 from Cmm-tess Cmm-tess von Dcrnstorff. wife of the German Ger-man ambassador, by threatening tc publish letters "alleged to contain matter showing her iniinnities and failings." Oflicials of the embassy also allegs that Graves had in his possession what apparently were confidential code diplomatic dip-lomatic dispatches from the German government to Count von Bernstorff. The prisoner told the federal agents he obtained all the documents from persons who smuggled them past the British censors on the steamship Oscar Os-car II. The warrant upon which he was arraigned and held on $2,000 bail for a rurther hearing, charges him also with bringing into the District ol Columbia letters stolen in Hoboken N. J., where the Oscar II docks. In a statement after his arraignment, arraign-ment, at which he entered a plea ol not guilty, Graves asserted that he had no intention of blackmailing the countess, that he objected to the use of the word blackmail, and that the papers he had in his possession were "purely diplomatic" in character. |