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Show GERMAN SPY SUSPECT ESCAPE RE-CAPTURED (Special to Beaver Co. News) Excitement ran high when word was received from Tintic that an alleged al-leged German spy had escaped from train No. 8 at this point. Men, women wom-en and children immediately went in search of the man. Enroute from El Paso Texas to camp Douglas for internment, under guard, the supposed sup-posed spy eluded the guard as the train was passing the Sevier river bridge. He opened the vestibule door and jumped while the train was in motion. On account of construction construc-tion work being done at that point, all trains run at reduced ' speed which made getting off easy. It seems that the guard had asked some soldiers who had charge of other oth-er war prisoners also en route to camp Douglass, to watch his man while the guard went to take a smoke. They neglected to do so. After Af-ter No. 8 had left Lynndyl the escape es-cape was discovered. ' The guard left the train at Tintic and notified Deputy Sheriff Hedges at this point. Officer Hedges immediately got in tou,eh with Mr. Delaney, superintendent superin-tendent of the Houghton Construction Construc-tion Company at bridge 653 A who reported that a party answering answer-ing the description given, had applied ap-plied to him for work a short time before, but being told that there was nothing he could offer, the man had boarded an east bound train a little later. In the afternoon the same party applied at the Lynndyl round house for work, saying that he was a carpenter, boiler-maker and machinist and needed work badly. bad-ly. It was then that Detective Hedges Hed-ges arrested his man, who protested that he was a Swiss subject and pot a German, was an honest workman seeking employment, also denied that he had escaped from the train. When arrested he gave his name as Hans Nelson, but insisted that he was a native of Switzerland. The prisoner was held by Detective Detec-tive Hedges until the guard returned from Tintic. The guard was much relieved to find that the man arrested ar-rested was the right party. During the evening the Beaver County News representative interviewed inter-viewed the prisoner in the German language. His story was to the et-fect et-fect that he had just finished a six month's jail sentence at Gallup New Mexico, for alleged activities during dur-ing the so-called I. W. W. trouble at that point last summer. He stoutly denied that he had ever been identified with the I.. W. W.'s The prisoner claims that he has been a resident of the United States for the past twenty years, and that during that time has followed various trades from the Atlantic to the Pacific Paci-fic coast. The prisoner claims that upon release re-lease from his six month's sentence at Gallup, New Mexico, he was immediately im-mediately arrested by the federal authorities, but upon what charge he claims ignorance. He was then taken to Fort Bliss, Texas, under guard. He was on his way to the en-ternment en-ternment camp when he escaped.. Your reporter could get no definite statement as to what might have been the charges placed by the government gov-ernment against him, simply saying that he would wait until he could communicate with the Swiss consul. Guard and prisoner left Lynndyl on No. 2 for Salt Lake. A |