Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1915 — Young German Man Charged As Being a German Spy. [ARTICLE]

Young German Man Charged As Being a German Spy.

Gustav Kopsch, a young German employed as an instrument maker by the Carnegie institute in Washington, was arrested Wednesday by agents of the department of justice charged with violating the federal law for protection of the national defenses by making pictures of military reservations. He will be tried in Norfolk by the U. S. district court. According to officers he had in his possession photographs of the fortifications and guns at Fortress Monroe and of the reservation at Cape Henry, Va. Kopsch returned last week after a vacation of twenty days. He had been under surveilance the latter part of the time. The arrested prisoner made no explanation for taking the pictures.