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Show FORMER WIFE OF I SPY TELES STORY Reads of Arrest and Internment Intern-ment in Salt Lake of Carl Von Haagsmar. ALWAYS SUSPECTED HIM Husband Claimed to Be Close Friend of General Von Hindenburg. CHICAGO, April 9. News of the arrest ar-rest of Carl von Haagsmar. alias Chauncey Hollender, alleged German I agent, was received w ith interest here today by a plump little woman with ) large, pathetic brown eyes. She is , Mr.-. Nellie Hollender. the prisoner s 1 divorced wife. "I always thought sometrilng like that" were her first words when Bhel i read that Hollender, arrested at Pres-cott. Pres-cott. Ariz., had been taken to Salt ! Lake City. Friend of Hindenburg. "We were married seven years ago and he left me two years later," said Mr?. Hollender. "At that period the I world at large knew nothing of General j von Hindenburg but my husband did. j He frequently referred lo him as a ' friend and claimed to bear from him , at times. He said that his real name , and title was Baron Carl von Haags-Imar Haags-Imar and that he had been a captain in the Austrian army. His father, he said, had been Austrian consul at Nor-.folk. Nor-.folk. Va.. and Boston. "I learned about his real name when I saw a cablegram addressed to Baron Carl von Haagsmar. It was from his sister, wife of a wine agent named ' Devereaux. at Bordeaux. France. It informed him that a cousin, known as Baroness de la Roque, an aviatrlx, had both arms and both legs fractured in an airplane accident. The correct spelling of his first name was ' "Cbaunaise." his mother's family nanie, I which he Anglicized into Chauncey. He told mc he served with the British in i the Boer war, too. "Chauncey spoke English correctly but with a.n accent, and earned a liv-I liv-I ing as a telegrapher. He was telegraphing tele-graphing when I married him Five j years ago I left Chicago to visit my 'mother. When I returned he had gone, after selling the furniture, and I learned learn-ed that he claimed to be going to join Lee Christmas, the Hondurnn revolutionist, revolu-tionist, on some Mexican expedition, as captain of a machine gun crew. He had previously displayed a large roll Of bills which he said he had received I from Christmas. "I did not hear from him again until I three years ago. He wrote that he j had been badly wounded in Mexico and w-as convalescing in St. Loui.-. He said j he had a grant of land of Mexico and said he was sorry for the way he had treated me. Later I learned that he l had returned to Mexico by way ot Laredo." Spy a Dangerous Man. SALT LAKE CITY. April 9. Carl von Haagsmar, known in the west as Chauncey Hollender. w ho was arrested I at Prescott, Ariz., and brought to Salt Lake City, will be interned at Fort Douglas as a dangerous enemy alien, j United States Marshal Aquilla Nebe-I Nebe-I ker announced today. Mr. Nebeker I announced today. Mr. Nebeker said that Haagsmar was being detained in jail only until such time as the piesi- dent's warrant authorizing internment I at Fort Douglas was received which j probably w ould be in the course of a ; few days. on |