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Show AUSTRIAN SPY DENIES I KNEW 6ERMM GENERAL SALT LAKE, April 10. "It's all a fairy tale; there is not a word of truth j in it," said Carl on Haagsmar. alias Chauncey Hallender, in the county Jail last night, when shown an Associated Press dispatch from Chicago, narrating narrat-ing an interview with Mr-- Nellie Hal-landef, Hal-landef, reported to be the prisoner's divorc ed wife. Yon Haagsmar. who was captured at j Fiescott, Ariz., about ten days ago, alter a long series of ln estimations covering nearly all porlions of tue Country west of the Mississippi river, denied lat night that he had ever been divorced or that he personally knew jdeneral Von- Hindenburg He denied, also, that he -ver bore the title of j baron, or that he was. at one time, a I captain in the Austrian army Haags- mar said that his wife now lives in ! Seattle, Wash. When it was suggested to him that his wife, being an American, might be able to bring influence to bear to secure a parole from the military prison at Fort Douglas, Von Haagsmar 'cast the suggestion aside with disdain, "Why, 1 would not worry my wife with a matter of so small import," he replied. "I have friends in Washington Washing-ton who will see to that, and I am quite sure that I shall not be held very long" Almost in the same breath, in reph to a question as to how he became in-vohed in-vohed so as to attract the suspicion of the government. Von Haagsmar exclaimed ex-claimed "Uh, it was an unfortunate circumstance, but I guess I got what was coming to me!" Von Haagsmar read the Chicago dispatch dis-patch very carefully, smiling at time during the reading, and seemed rather disturbed. - But he quickly recovered re-covered his equanimity. "Some record, isn't it?" said Haagsmar. Haags-mar. as he finished; "some career, but there is no truth in it." sskiHa |