Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-08-15 | Page 1 | Strange Story is Bared With Arrest of Spy

STRANGE STORY IS BARED WITH ARREST OF SPY A. E. F. Officer Killed His! Father. Betrayer of Mother, By Duel in Germany CHIf.UlO. Auk H. Theodore Schudd, ild to be ft German nrmy officer of-ficer who returned to America with passports Htolen from an American of-, fucr, aepuined the American's name and wua mustered out and re-t ininted In the tank service, will be brought here from San Francisco, where he1 wan arrested several days ago, for1 trial. United States Commissioner Mason today issued a warrant tor Bohudd on' tho technical curfco of having ob-j tamed 1,M0 back pu from the government gov-ernment by fulsu pretenses when ho Woe discharged at t oi l Sheridan hos-, .,Mi He will be held on the charge while authorities Investigate other phases of his story. SI 1 U. Kl I N.l . The nrrcsl has revealed a wlerd sloiy Invoiviuis SchiKld, Lieutenant Artnur M K.ncald, whose papers he, conu-ssed stealing and a German count, according to Information gath-ered gath-ered here. i lie real Lieutenant Kim aid who also al-so received baciv pay when he 1 was mustered out. accord. Dg to army! In cords, claims to be the son of an' American opera linger and .1 German' count, according to an Interview pub-j lislied in a Chicago newspaper. ills mother, he Is quoted aa saying, Wl betrayed in Paxil by the German officii. offi-cii. When he went to Kraut-" with Ithfl Amtilcan nrmy he determined to hunt up hi lather noU i.vact re-j re-j venge. Army records show that Kincald was sent to Berlin after tho armistice land left there on a vacation from Which he did not return. Later he' 1 was found In a hospital in Belgium and was returned to America und fin-! all dlaoharged. Be received tho Cl oix do Guerre. Kincald eayi that while on his vacation vaca-tion in Germany be located th count.' j his father, and killed him In a duel. , the n fled to Belgium where he VU taken sick. About that time his' papcii .111.1 p.iMM,r ( w.re ,-lnicn l Schudd. he bellevaa. PROl i n n RE ORDS. Armv records show that the 1-ieu-tenant Kincald who confessed at Snn PYandacO that he wns Schudd, re-' Joined the army at Brest and was returned re-turned to America. j The real Kincald also waa returned j to America and mustered out at Camp Taylor. Kv, after receiving his back pay. Army records substantiate hi story. District Attorney Charles F. Clyne. Who obtained the warrnnt fur Schudd .t'.iluy on orders from the department of juslhc. x.ild other charges mav be plac d against the prisoner after In-' In-' xtlgutlon of his story that he Is a German officer. BIS ICTlVJTlliS KEVEALED BAM PHANCI8CO. Aug. 14. Acttv-1 Acttv-1 M German secret agent within th6 past few mouths is nald to be re- vialed by Investigations of army officers offi-cers into tho coae of Theodore Schudd. recently arrested here, and who Is to! be taken to Chicago for trial. Schudd. according to army officers. COnfeeaed that he formerly was In the German Intelligence service, and that he posed as nn American lieutenant (Continued on I 'age Two.) ' . oo Strange Story Is Bared I With Arrest of Spy (Continued from Page One.) after he had come Into possession of Lieutenant Kineald's personal effects in Germany. After disguising as an officer he re-rr.llsted re-rr.llsted in an Infantry regiment here and wns a member of this when he; Was arrested. '