The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-08-10
Is Charged With Being a Rep
resentatiye of the Krupps, a
Spy and DeSerter
VISITED FRIENDS HERE RECENTLY
Federal Authorities Believe HOlIweg Re-
sponsibIe for |. W. W. Activities
Is Much Wanted Man

The Seattle Star Of Wednesday con-
tanned a first page news story about
the arrest in Seattle of Louis Hollewig
Won Bettenhausen on Tuesday, on the
charge of being a deserter from the U.
S. army. It appears, however, that he
is also a spy and an agent of the Ger
man cannon maker Krupp.
About three weeks ago this man
visited a German family here and went
by the name Of Louis Holweg.
Whether he was active while here does
not appear.
While here Louis Holweg stated that
Bethman Won Holweg, the Ex-German
Chancellor was his uncle. His wife is a
niece of Mrs. Conrad Harding.
Following is part of the Stars story
as it appeared in Wednesdays paper:
A nationwide search for Louis
Hollewig Won Bettenhausen, agent for
the Krupps OF Essen, Germany, United
States army deserter, and suspected
German spy, ended in Seattle late
Tuesday, when he was identified by
Howard Wright, in charge OF the
bureau OF investigation for the federal
department of Justice.
Following a career OF international
adventure, Won Bettenhausen is now
in custody OF United States army
officials at Fort Lawton. He will be
imprisoned at Alcatraz, CAL, pending
his trial.
Technically, he is charged with de-
sertion from the United States army.
Government secret service in
vestigators have discovered his tracks
in China, the Philippines, Vladivostok,
Borneo, Java, Australia, Hawaii,
Mexico, and finally in the little town
of Leavenworth, Wash, on the sum-
NIT of the Cascades. Large numbers
of I. w. w. have been passing thru
Leavenworlh in the last few weeks, en-
route to and from Washington agri-
cultural centers.
Federal agents are endeavoring to
connect Won Bettenhausen with recent
I. w. w. disturbances in that district.
They are investigating trip he made
to Leavenworth from Seattle, three
weeks ago.
Orders to proceed with the arrest
came direct from Washington.
Won Bettenhausen arrived in Seattle
January 80, using the name Louis
Hollewig. Federal agents Immediately
placed him under surveillance on
suspicion of his being Won Betten-
hausen.
Only 81 years Of age, an expert
mechanic, and former lieutenant in the
German army, he obtained employ
ment first with the Puget Sound
Machinery depot and later in the
Duthie shipyard.
That he threatened to blow up
United States ships, and paid visits to
Germans in Eastern Washington,
possibly to secretly distribute German
money and stir up industrial terrorism,
are developments now under in
vestigation.
Government agents, tracing Won
Bettenhausep, have uncovered bits OF
information concerning his career in
Germany, the Orient aud the United
States, which dovetail with the few
admissions he made TO Special Agent
Wright in Seattle since his arrest last
Friday.
The son OF Baron Won Bettenhausen,
of the German diplomatic corps, young
Hollewig was born August 9, 1886,
and. at the age Of IL, was brought to
the United States by his father on an
educational tour" Wright says.
They stopped in all principal cities,
and later went to India and Africa,
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