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Show MASTER SPY HELD FORJACKIIL CHARGED WITH THREATENING COUNTESS VON BERNSTORFF, WIFE OF GERMAN AMBASSADOR. Self-Styled International Spy and Magazine Mag-azine Writer Who Boasted of Being Be-ing in Foreign Secret Service Faces Grave Charges. Washington. Karl Armgard Graves, a self-styled international spy and magazine writer, was arrested here Saturday by agents of the department depart-ment of justice and charged with attempting at-tempting to extort $3,000 from Countess Coun-tess von Bernstorff, wife of the German Ger-man ambassador, by threatening to publish letters "alleged to contain matter showing her infirmities and failings." Officials of the embassy also allege that Graves had in his possession what apparently were confidential code diplomatic dip-lomatic dispatches from the German government to Count von Bernstorff. The prisoner told the federal agents he obtained all the documents from persons who smuggled them past the British censors on the steamship Oscar Os-car II. The warrant upon which he was arraigned and held on $2,000 hail for a further hearing, charges him also with bringing into the District of Columbia letters stolen in. Hoboken, N. J., where the Oscar II docks'. ' ".' In a statement after his arraignment, arraign-ment, at which he entered a plea ol not guilty, Graves asserted that he had no intention of blackmailing the countess, that he objected to the, use of the word blackmail, and that the papers he had in his possession were "purely diplomatic" in character. |