The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20

The youthful Swift sue
ceeded to leadership of the
conspiracy a year ago, police
said. after the original chiefs
had been nearly trapped and
fed from France.
His confession disclosed that he
met agents of the international spy
syndicate in the United States,
where he and his wife were hired
for the comparatively minor fee Of
5000 a month and were sent to
France.
There Switz directed activities,
furnished by the psymsster of the
organization, Benjamin Bercovits, a
Rumsnian.
Police still sought the secret
model of an automatic rifle stolen
last year from Chatellersult, which
Ingrid BOstron. arrested with a
Finnish spy group. insisted she saw
at the home of Lydia Stahl. arrested
last December with the Switzes. She
is q Russian who has been in the
United States.
Dig Up Old Law
Lawyers for the Switzes dug up
an old law today and may ask inn
munity for them under a provision
granting freedom in exchange for
the voluntary denuncistion of per-
sons guilty of espionage against the
state.
Switz, an aviator, and his wife. a
Vassar graduate, held in separate
prisons for three months, were taken
last night before Magistrate Ernest
Benon. who is in charge Of the es-
pionage investigation.
They were questioned for nine
hours. without food Police said
they involved themselves in contra
diction after contradiction.
As a result. armed with names of
persons never before suspected in
the long inquiry Surete Generate
agents raced through Paris in the
early hours of today and gathered
in five new persons to add to a score
already under arrest or suspected
~ Five Under Arrest
Those arrested today were:
Colonel - Du Moulin. also
called CharraS, a grand officer of
the Legion of Honor by virtue of
distinguished army career and con-
nected with the important military
revenue "Armee ct Democratic"
VatroSlss Reich. native Ru-
msnian naturahzed as Frenchman
IN order 10 obtain q position as as
sistsnt at the Biological institute.
where he knew the most intimate
secrets concerning poison gases
being tested for army use.
Auhry, an engineer at
tached 70 the army powder service.
Mrs. Aubry.
Mrs. - Davldovici. A Ru-
manian dentist, charged with CEN
Trailing the gangs mail service.
Documents Are Seized
Raids we're conducted at homes
of the five persons arrested. The
secret service disclosed that mem
bers of the espionage wing gathered
secret documents and photographs
at the home of Mrs. Davidovici
The documents, it was said, were
taken to Switzerland duplicated
and sent on to Moscow and Berlin.
Books seized. it was asserted, pur-
ported TO disclose that Colonel Du
Moulin received 5000 francs 1880
a month from a foreign power in
exchange for secret documents from
the war college.
Aubry, they said. received a like
amount for documents passing
through his hands as an expert at
national powder plants.
Reich. they charged. received 5000
francs 5000 a month for providing
documents relating to gas produc-
ton and research regarding gas
masks and other anti-gas material.
BeSSarabian Woman Sought
It was announced that acting on
information obtained from Mrs
Swift. the secret service sought
Mrs. Anglard. a native of Bessars-
bis. who apparently escaped from
France when eighteen persons
charged with membership in the
gang were arrested Dec 81.
Information obtained from the
young couple led police TO announce
that the espionage gang with great
thoroughneSs concentrated on Sc
oret military information touching
navies, airplanes. poison gas. artil-
lery, powders and automatic weap-
CHS,