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Show 'GERMAN SPY" CAPTAIN CONVICTED OF DESERTION WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 -John A. Wilier?, a former captain 111 the arm... who, when arrested at New York on December 7. claimed that ho had acted I aB a German spy' while sorvlng with the American forces, baa been convicted convict-ed by court martial of desertion from ; tho army and sentenced to five years I In the federal penitentiary n l.eav lenworfh. it was announced today bi I the war department. Wiilers still is ' tc be Iried on charges of iheft and embezzlement. em-bezzlement. I Tho former captain Is charged with j absconding with $5000 pi "he funds of (Company I, 48th Infautry, Decembci I 19. 1318. no |