NEW YORK MYSTERY

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1938, Page 7

NEW YORK MYSTERY

GERMAN’S DISAPPEARANCE £BY CABLE —PBE.SS ASSN. COPYBIGHT.] NEW YORK, May 19. Dr. Ignatz Greibl,?. former national leader of the American Nazis and one of the chief witnesses in the United States Government’s greatest peace time spy hunt, disappeared mysteriously only a few days before the opening of the Grand Jury hearing. Federal agents learned that he?, sailed for Germany aboard the finer Bremen on Thursday. They requested the French authorities at Cherbourg to ask Mm to return to the United States. The captain of the Bremen would not allow them to see Dr. Greibl. Federal agents are now trying to ascertain whether Dr. Greibl was forced to return to Germany by threats. His wife laughs at the suggestion that he was kidnapped by Nazis, and says that In? will return in three weeks.

WIFE MYSTIFIED. (Received May 20, 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 19. The Greibl mystery deepened when MS;.Wife stated: “I cannot believe he would'have left me like this: of his own free will. 1 honestly do not know whether my .husband is alive or dead. When he left me near the pier he said: ‘1 will be. back in half an hour. 1 have an appointment with some one on the North German Lloyd pier.’ 1 never saw' him again.” Shot added that her husband severed his connection with the Friends 1 of New' Germany several years ago.