Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-02

] to the WorkhouSe.
New York, March IA young WON
an, who, according to the police, gave
her name as Mrs. Annette Stegler and
Is described by them as the wife OF
Richard P. Stegler, q prisoner in the
Tombs in connection with alleged
passport frauds, was arrested early
today on a charge of felonious assault
made by Arthur Mateiket.
The arrest was made In the Hotel
Grenoble. Mateiket, who Is said by
the police to be reporter On a Ger.
man newspaper, charged that the
woman attacked him with settler
water bottle and also beat him with a
cane.
Mrs. Annette Stegler has appeared
prominently in the passport fraud
charges In the defense Of her hus-
band, Richard P. Stegler. It was
through her influence, she said, that
Stegler gave up the idea OF being a
German spy and caused him to make
q confession in which he alleged that
Captain Boy-Ed, the German naval at.
tache, was behind his activity for the
German cause.
At the Grenoble hotel 1t was learn
ed that the woman who describes her.
self as Mrs Stegler and Mateiket
came to the hotel about o'clock Sun
day night. They arrived in an auto.
mobile and were accompanied by. an
other young man and woman. Both
men carried suit cases, which. accord
ing to the hotel people, they guarded
carefully, even refusing to allow the
bell boys to carry them to adjoining
rooms which were assigned to the two
couples after they had registered at
the hotel desk.
Police Are Summoned.
About 1 o'clock this morning a call
for the police came from the room to
which Mateiket had been assigned
and when Detective Burgess arrived
he was asked by the man to arrest his
companion. He charged that the
woman had thrown setter bottle at
him but that he had lodged It and
that the woman had then beaten him
over the head with a cane. Accord
Ing to the police Mateiket showed no
signs of the encounter but the police
had to enter the complaint and
they locked up the woman in the West
Forty-seventh street station In care
Of the matron. Detective Burgess says
the woman was fully clothed when he
entered the room to make the arrest.
The young woman, who claims to be
Mrs. Annette Stegler, according to the
police, told the matron that she con-
sidered she had been trapped. She
said that a woman friend of hers, An.
ma Hoffman by name, had called her
up by telephone and made an appoint
ment to meet her in the evening as
she had something important to com.
municate. When they met her woman
friend was accompanied by two we'll
dressed young men who invited her
into their automobile and later, she
said, they went to the hotel for dinner.
It later, when Mateiket, 1t is stated,
began questioning her regarding the
fraud case, that the row &C.
cured.
The young woman requested that
Charles Griffith, who Is counsel for !
Richard P. Stegler, be sent for and it
s believed that he will appear in court |
ater today when the young woman Is !
lrraigned.
The police, when they heard the
tory of the carefully guarded suit |
,ases, were inclined to believe that
hey sheltered telephone devices for
ecording conversations. The men
.arried the grips with them when they
eft the police station. The police
earned that during the night Mattel
let several times called German !
on the telephone and held
with some person In
German.
Report is Submitted.
Washington. D. c., March 1.-The
1erman embassy's communication to
he state department on the Stegler
'assport case, which has involved the
ame Of Captain Boyd, the naval at
ache of the embassy was laid before
Councillor Lansing today at the de-
artment.
Count Won Berstorff, the German am
assador, in a statement given out at
he embassy today, characterized the
communication as one giving the
aain facts of the Stegler affair, SO far
s the naval attache Is concerned"
According to deed filed in the coun'
v recorders office, Iva l.. Arthur has