The Sentinel=record., 1915-02-27
GERMAN NAVAL ATTACHE AT WASHINGTON IS ACCUSED OF
 BEING IMPLICATED.
SPY SYSTEM IN CONNECTION
Man Arrested Claims He Was to Go to England and Get Information Re. gardns Shipping and Report His Findings to German Officials.

New York, Feb. 26.-,charIes II Griffths, attorney for Richard P stesler, the German naval re.eryist arrested here Wednesday on the charge of naadu'enty obtaining an American passport. announced tonight that he would place in the hands of the federal authorities tomorrow an anonymous typewriter letter re. ceived by Mrs. Stegler which would be compared with letters alleged to nave been written to Stegler by Cap tain K. BoyEd naval attache of the German embassy at WashingtoY. StegIer. according to Mr. Griffitbs has told the federal authorities that Captain BoyEd wanted him to go to England as a spy.
 The letter which Captain Boy,Ed today denied having written or know ing anything about read as follows:
 Reading today's New York A.merl. can al ow me to tell you that 1t was your fault that your husband has been arrested and will have to go to jail for many years and will be always Iooked-a. scoundrel Accept the ad- Vice to Keep your month shut and do not open it before you at first consult 8 lawyer
 Besides you put your country in a bad position because your ease will only increase the ilfeeling of the Germans against the Americans and you know that war with the Ger. mans would be the greatest disaster for the Americans
 Nlr Griffiths said that both Mrs Stegler and Stegler himself, to whom he showed the letter today in the Tcmbs prison. have declared that cer- tain characters of the typewriting and other peculiarities resembled the let. | ters Stegler had received from Cap tain Boy-Fd, now in the custody of the United States district attorney Tie letter was mailed in New York | terday and was addressed 10 Mrs. l Stogler at her home. No 25 St NichO | las terrace Mr Griffiths said that
 St Nicholas" was spelled St Niko- l as,' as in the letters sent by Captain | Boy-Ed. and that it bore the stamp of | the same postoffice station
 This thing is too ridiculous 10 an- swer" Captain Boy Ed said when | asked today if he wrote the letter | "All the letters that nave gone out of 1 this office have been addressed by | my stenographer and suppose there | must be thousands of typewriters like l the one she uses"
 Captain Boy Ed strongly reiterated 1 his denial that ne had had anything | to do with Steeler other than 10 try | to help him get a position.
 Stegler repeated today, Mir. Grif- | fiths said, his declaration that Cap tain Boy-Ed had wanted him to go to | Eng and as 2 spy As told by the at. | torney Stegler was informed by the | naval attache that the Britisl admir- | alty was fitting out at Belfast a num- | Der of merchantmen which were 10 be 1 sent disguised as German boats to the | mouths of the Elbe and Weser rivers and sunk there in order to blockade 1 CuXhaven, Bremershaven and other | German ports.
 "I was to get all the information | about this latter" Stegler was quoted | by Mr Gnffiths as saying. T was also to watch all shipping movements | in the Mersey. I was to try to locate | the strength of the English feet sup posed to be in St. Georges channel ! was to make absolutely no notes but l to depend entirely on my memory
 q was then to go to Rotterdam and then to the German border, where was to meet German officers and give the ma secret password l was to go to Berlin and deliver my information to Herr Isendall head Of the German intelligence bureau"
 That stegler had sought the assist ance of George Sylvester Vierick editor of a German. newspaper in ob. taining an American passport was as sertetd by Vierick today.
 MT Yierick said Stegler had come to him and represented that he was engaged in very important confiden tial work for certain persons high in German official circles and had men. toned Captain Boy-Ed's name.
 '''l told him. said MT Vierick. that ] I vas au American citizen and would