U.S. SPY CASE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 13

U.S. SPY CASE

DETECTIVE CHARGED

ALLOWING NAZI TO ESCAPE ALLEGED MONETARY INTEREST I7nitcrt Tress Association— IJy Electric Telc-pvaph---Copyright. NEW .YORK, June 27. The '"New \ork Times' gives prominence today to an affidavit submitted to the Federal Court by George Dix, attorney for Johanna Hodman, formerly a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and one of the If] alleged Nazi spies indicted recently by a Federal Grand Jury in the great United States spy hunt.

In this aflidavit Mr. Dix makes the charge that Mr. Leon G. Turrou, the chicf Government investigator who resigned the day after the indictment in order to write articles for the newspapers, permitted Dr. Ignatz Griebl (former Nazi leader in the United States, and another of those indicted) to escape to Germany aboard the Bremen because Turrou "had a monetary interest in allowing Griebl to depart."

The affidavit also states that Turrou allowed Griebl to escape in order to deprive "Hoffman of a witness who would have testified in her favour.

The judge ordered the United States Attorney to show cause tomorrow why the American Consul-General at Bremerhaven, Bremen, or Berlin should not be empowered to examine Griebl and Schultcr (political officer of the liner Bremen, and also indictcd) on oath and obtain the desired testimony.