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Show 1 GERMAN SPY IN A 1 NEW YORK CLUB f.S New York, SepL 16. The Army and ijjjpHJ Navy club of this city, whose mein- jiliK bership includes some of the most Wm prominent military men of the United r If '13 States, began an exhaustive investiga- tj j tion tonight to determine whether li $1 Captain Newenhall A. Gray, who has " M lived at the club as a British army II fjH officer for the las't eight months, Is, LIB in fact, a German spy. The club's MS 8) action was precipitated by charges i SU nied b' BrltIsh agents in Washington. Pj If m The British say that Captain Gray's Hi IBb boast of being an officer in the Brit- Tflfuf ish Indian senice Is disproved by an j m Inspection of the army rolls. Instead jH Li! of being an Englishman, he is a ''SB Krupp expert and a spy, they assert. j IB An investigator, whose report is in l'm possession of the British consulate of ffir this city and the UnIted States secret ! If H service, told of the charges concern- i n ing Captain Gray today as follows: jjff "Nearly a year ago British agents ' I m discovered in New York Captain New- ln enhall A. Gray, who asserted he had fij been a British officer in India. He lw& sought the acquaintanceship of Amcr- , i. ' ft ican army officers, and through the I i m kindness of a member of the Army , B and Navy club he obtained a room j mi m there. HRJi, l Attended Howitzer Tests. I1"1! Jll "By means of the club's hospitality j:La he has been able to meet many high Wl officials in the United States army , j and navy. He has been their guest on j J in many occasions. For example, he at- Mj tended the recent tests of howitzers f ! fjS at Fort Totten. J ! m "British agents later discovered he J H iJB had become an ordnance expert for I If wa various American concerns, who were tjll H negotiating with England for war sup- II JH plies. It then became known that he f IF m was drawing plans and specifications B for rifles, hand grenades nnd large ' j! H artillery pieces and in this way com- llnfl '" nto close an(1 intimate contact 1 WM w'1' tbe British, French and Italian I ml agents who are tuying arms and am- llJiw munition in this country. ' Vm "The war office in Ixmdon was in- Wm structed to search the rolls of the j rM British army in India to determine llwl when and where Captain Gray was' ; i IW1 in s0rvlce.- Thc rePlT came back that il there was no record of such a man. mjS Close to Boy-Ed. j ISilid snortiy aiier tnis (japtain Gray 111119 t00 offices in room 801, No. 11 MH& Broadway. On this same floor, or IffllH on'y a 'ew door3 a"ayi are the of fices of Captain Boy-Ed, the naval attache of the German embassy, whom Richard P. Stegler, the confessed con-fessed spy, said was the hoad of the German secret service in the United States. "Another British agent was then called Into thc case, who poses as a German at thc Gorman club. He reported re-ported that Captain Gray was known to certain German officials who make the club their headquarters. This and other information was then turned over to the Washington authorities, with the result that thc United Slates secret service men arc now working on the case." Members of tho Army and Navy club declined to discuss Captain Gray until the club's investigation of its mysterious guest is complete. Colonel Oliver B. Bridgman, president of the club, said- "We are talking this matter over, but that is all I care to say now.'' |