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Show Ml ARRESTED IN OGDEN CAUSES II SPY'S ARREST Instead of marrying soldiers for their allotment of pay as was thought to be the practice of Mrs. Ruth Roberts, Rob-erts, arrested in Ugden about three weeks ago, she claims she was forced Into a marriage by a Cerman spy, who ! has since been arrested and sent to Fort Omaha, while her true husband is righting over in France Mrs Roberts was confined In the local jail for several sev-eral days, pending an investigation of her case by federal authorities She was then removed to Salt Lake and is being held there now in the county ' jail, suffering of nervous prostration and waiting to undergo an operation In an Interview yesterday, she told j her story and straightened out a number num-ber of facts which formerly seemed to indicate she was guilty of bicamy and fraud, but which now excite the pity of tho.-e who know her story and lead them to believe that she has been the unlucky victim of strange clrcum-: clrcum-: stances. Mrs Roberts says she married Frank Roberts at Fort Omaha and he left last December tor France. At the farewell party given him, she met a man named Harvey Zellmar, whom she afterwards learned was a German spy. This is the man she accuses of forcing her into a marriage. In telling tell-ing the story, she said: "At the party we had a merry time and, with many of the soldiers of the post present, the evening passed en-Joyabh en-Joyabh . After it was over and Frank had gone away. Harvey Zellmar, a soldier I had met at the social, began to pay attentions to me. "Harvey was a young man, not over 21, and full of youth, dnre and all the forwardness of a domineering German. And later I learned that he was a full blooded German, was not a citizen of the United States and but more of that later. "At that time I was living in a largo place and keeping house for myself. my-self. Harvey took a room at the same place. He said he bad a ten-day leave of absence. One night he knocked at my door and said that he felt ill and asked if there was any water in my room, and I opened the door and got him a chair and some water. "In a moment he arose, locked the door and told me that he was going to marry me "But," I said, "I am married. You know that. I can't marry you. Let me out of here. I want to go away." "He became angry and struck me, tore my clothes from me, and well, the next day he asked me then if I would marry him it was not so much a proposal, you see, as a threat. "It may have been that I was afraid I guess that was it or that I was under his will, but anyway, we went across the river and were married in Council Bluffs. Ia.. and by some freak of fate by the same minister. I remembered, remem-bered, who performed the ceremony when I married Frank. "That night Harvey said 'hat we would go to Texas. I had intended ifier Frank left to go there and visit some relatives, so 1 made no argument. argu-ment. "But in Texas we stayed more than the ten days thai Harvey had told rne he had been allowed absence from camp, and when I inquired about this one night, ho said. " 'You might as well know, I am nothing more nor less than a spy. I am not an American citizen and 1 am not going back to the fori." " "I went to Salt Lake. That was late , in January. I stayed In tho city with relatives of my husband. Frank Roberts, Rob-erts, and thincs went very well. "In Salt Lake I lived happily for several weeks, when whom should 1 run into on the streets here but Har- ' vey Zelmar. He recognized me and 1 said that he had followed me. He asked me for money. I told him I had none. "Once he caught me, and said that I must either go with him, Iovo him or else be loved by no man else that Is, die. "I tried to fly from him. and he took out a small bottle from his pocket and tried to force some liquid down j my throat I broke the bottle and part Of the contents nicked on my cheek. There," she pointed, "is the burn, a mere scar now. It was carbolic acid. "I could stand It no loncer. and went to the federal auhorities and told them of Harvey Zellmar He was arrested ar-rested and. I am told, taken back to Fort Omaha, "But I. too. am arrested. I went to Ogden to get work, and suddenly 1 was taken by a policeman, who said, 'You have too many husbands. You are arrested.. And here I am." oo |