Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-03-03
Naval Attache Boy-ed at WASH
inuton Mentioned In Connec-
ton With Passport Fur
nished Noted Spy.
ACCUSED BY SPY SUSPECT
Stegler Said to Have Charged
Kaiser's Representative Ne
gotiated With Him to
Go to England.

New York. Feb. 27.-Federal authorf-
ties today were investigating a state
ment made by counsel for Richard p.
Stegler, the German naval reservist. ar
rested in this city Wednesday night,
that Captain Boy-ed: naval attache of
the German embassy IN Washington,
had furnished an American passport to
Carl Hans Lody. the German spy who
was put to death in the Tower Of Lon
NAL of Stegler's statements. involving
him. Captain 3oy-ed referred to his
allegation as trash
Charles H. Griffiths. former United
States attorney who was assigned by
U. S. Commissioner H%oughton to defend
Stegler, linked the names of the Ger
man naval attache and Lody I'm a state
ment. given out after a conference With
Stegler in the Tombs.
Behind Lody Plot?
"Stegler told me- Mr.. Griffiths said.
that on one occasion. while he was on
Captain Boy-ed. "a DIR. Fuehr told him
that Captain Boy-ed had carried
through the scheme that made 1t pos
sible to obtain an American passport
for Lody and that ,Boy-ed sent Lody
to England. where he was executed.
Stegler also said that DR.. Fuehr had
told him that Boy-ed was the only per
son who knew all the details of the
Lody plot because he had planned the
whole thing
statements We're corroborated by Mrs.
Stegler. the young Georgia woman at
whose suggestion Stegler abandoned
his alleged plan to go abroad.
Another Takes Risk.
According to Mr.. Griffiths Stegler
vas fa 1,a va cnilo1 fn,. IHrrr1o,,l IN -,,.
for the German government in obtain
Ing Information as to the whereabouts
of an English fleet of dreadnaughts,
supposed to be in ST. Georges channel.
Stegler was to have gone on the steam
er Franconia. according to the lawyer,
and when he decided not to go a young
German-American, whom he knew by
sight. but not by name. was assigned
to the perilous task and sailed on the
steamer with a bogus passport in his
pocket. The Franconia is due to ar
rive i'm Liverpool within a day or two.
Stegler was quoted by Mr.. Griffiths as
having, said that his negotiations with
Boy-ed had progressed to the point
where they had discussed money that
was to be paid to Mrs. Stegler while her
husband Was in England.
Would Pay Wife.
According to the lawyer. Captain
Boy-ed. i'm talk with Stegler at the Ger
man-American Hub had agreed to pay
Mrs. Stegler $3.50 a month while Steg-
Ter was in England and had further
V his mission INC he met the same
fate as I.odv to pay Mrs. Stegler $3.50,
a month so long as she lived.
Captain Begged denied all the state
ments alleged to have been mad by
Stegler. The naval attache said he had
tried to obtain employment for Stegler
count of travelling expenses because he
thought he could place him with IL
friend in Germany. who wanted to an
ploN a good linguist. Later Captain
Boy-ed continued. he had decided that
Stegler was not a suitable person Tor
the position he had i'm mind and had
asked Stegler to re>urn the money ad-
vanced. This Stegler had not done,
Captain Boy-ed said.
Denied BY Boy-ed.
The impression that Stegler wishes
to create Captain Boy-ed added. that
act as a spy for the German govern
ment is false"
Roger B.. Wood. the assistant United
States district attorney, who is pre-
senting the case to the federal grand
jury said:
This department will get to the bot
tom of whatever there is to get to the
bottom of. The rest of the work.. if
there is any to be done. is up to the
authorities at Washington"
Afraid He Mas Goat"
Mr.. Griffiths gave out this afternoon
what he said were further details of
Stegler's confession. He said that
Stegler az refused to accept the mis-
sion which Begged had asked him to
undertake in England as spy because
he learned he was to be made use OF
as Il dummy to deceive the English
and that the real spy in the case was to
be another man. Stegler's original in
Structions We're hat he was to find out
the number of British ships in ST.
Georges ann and all the informa-
ton of the naval situation that he
could. then take II boat to Rotterdam
proceed to the German border there
meet some German officers to whom
he was to make himself known by a
secret number deliver his information
and then return to America.
Stegler said he had received explicit
instruction in the case from Boy-ed.
Upon discovering that a second man
was to follow in his footsteps and hav-
ing learned that Carl Lody met his fate
in the operation of this two nan spy
system he refused to go.
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