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Show GERMAN CONSUL 1 1 FACING TRIAL H ; Facts Concerning False Pass- H ' port Issued to Hort Von der Hi Gotz Under Alias to M Come Before Federal H Grand Jury. I ' Hi ' Washington, April G. The govern- H ment's investigation of the alleged H connection of Carl A. Luderitz, Ger- H man consul at Baltimore, with the is- Hj sue of an American passport to Horst H von der Goltz, a confessed German H spy, under the name of Brldgeman H j Taylor, has reached a point where the H next step is to lay the facts before H the federal grand jury. H The story told to department of jus- H lice agents by von der Goltz at New H York is to be made the basis of grand H jury action. In his statement von der H Goltz is quoted as saying he went to H Baltimore with a letter from Captain H von Papon, tho former German mili- H lary attache here, requesting the con- H Eul to aid von der Goltz iriany way H he could Von der Golt,z ha? told the H. i agents he presented the letter and Bf discussed with Luderitz plans for ob- H i '. talnlng fraudulently an American passport Von der Goltz' story, it is said, has been corroborated by the prisoner. Tucker, arrested three weeks ago at El Paso and now held at Ellis Island, New York. Tucker, it is asserted, was familiar with von der Goltz' plans to obtain an American passport and has corroborated von der Goltz' story In its essentials. |