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Show SPY-SUSPECT CAUGHT IN THE RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT Following a report from the residence resi-dence district that a spy-suspect was canvassing the residonco districts for money, Officer Pete Naylin, shortly before noon today, arrested Emil La Fever and locked him in Jail, pending investigation. LaFever was arrested at Twenty-third and Madison avenue. According to the reports received at -U 1 I .1-11 T -T-I 1 , ..I..11. , luo ijuiujw amuuu, jLiwr ever uhu viaiieu various homes in tho vicinity of the 800 block on Twenty-seventh street. He did not ask for food, but Insisted he wanted money. His German accent and German appearance caused some of the homes to suspect that he was using the pretext of begging funds as a means of ascertaining the location of German homoB. Unwilling to take chances, they gave the alarm and La Fever's arrest followed. Tho prisoner Is about 42 years old and has every feature and characteristic charac-teristic of the German. He claims to be a Swiss but is able to talk German, French and Italian. He says he has been omployed In construction work on the Union Pacific. |