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Show INDICT GERMAN FOR ARMY FRAUD Impersonator ol Yankee Officer Of-ficer Faces Federal Court Trial in Chicago j CHICAGO, Sept 4 Theodore Schudde, n German, was Indicted today to-day by federal grand Jury, charged With defrauding the government bv collecting Sl.fiSO In back pay while using us-ing the name of Lieutenant Arthur Klncald. Schudde. who says he obtained Kin-caid's Kin-caid's papers in 'crmany after the armistice, was returned CO this country as Klncald and discharged at Fori Sheridan where he collected pay due the American officer. He way arrested arrest-ed at San Francisco. Bohudde; who claims 'o be a German Ger-man officer enlisted In the army as a private following his discharge here. He was arrested at the Presidio, Pre-sidio, in Stn Francisco, when a photograph photo-graph of himself in a German uniform uni-form was found among his effects. Tiie grand jury look no action on other charges growing out of Bchud-de's Bchud-de's action in posing as an American officer. J SECRET LETTERS FOUND. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. Theodore Theo-dore Schudde, Indicted by a federal giand Jury at Chicago, was arrested lure several week ago cn a charge of diserllon from the ramy whero he had been serving as a private un- , rtfr TV,. n'i mo nf Arthur I rtprinrln Qui st: -led i-HRnrding letter.' from, the tiermitn military intelligence ser-! vice found in his effects, army offl- . cer- said he admitted that his true rsiiH- was Schudde. and that he had cn In communication with German irmj officers since using Ktncald'ii papei .u put himself into the American Ameri-can a r m . |