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Show CAPT. BOY-ED IN WASHINGTON Dismissed German Attache Suspected at Bottom of Smuggling Plots. j PHILADELPHIA. Much 13. Capt Carl Doy-ed, former naval attache1 of the German embassy at Washington, was in this city as recently as a week ago, it was admitted late this afternoon after-noon by Frank Carharino, head of the Philadelphia bureau of investigation of (he smuggling plot involving the two interned German commerce raiders of the Philadelphia nay yard. fr which five Philadeiphians, including three prominent German-Americans are under un-der arrest. Capt. Boy-ed With Capt. Von Tapen was dismissed from the country by Preside nt Wilson in December, 1915, for alleged conspiracy, Boy-ed is believed be-lieved to nave returned to the United States on the German submarine mer-chantman mer-chantman Deutachland or rhe 17-53, or German submarine having its base on the Mexican coast. He is suspected suspect-ed of being ihe brains of the smuggling smug-gling plot under investigation here. Captain Boy-ed's name Is coupled with that ot Adelbert K. Fischer, said to be a relative of the emperor through a morganatic marriage, a German reserve re-serve naval officer and president of the Schutt e-Koerting company, manu-facturing manu-facturing machinists of this city. This concern has at frequent times been a - ml bidder on American warship war-ship contracts. Sailed From U. S in 1915, NKW YORK. March 13 Captain Karl Boy-ed sailed for Europe on December De-cember 28, 1915, on the Holland-American liner Rotterdam. Little has been heard or hi- activities In Germany lines his departure. He sailed under guarantees of safe conduct from the allied governments. Nothing can be learned of Boy-ed's present whereabouts. Government agents are said to be searching unsuccessfully unsuc-cessfully for him. He Is said to have been in disguise when last here and one theorj advanced la that he is now on bis way to Mexico. |