Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-01


American passport falsely. Stegler is
German naval rescrvist. Two others
were indicted with him, Richard Mad
den, III whose name the passport was
issued. and Gustave Cook Of Hoboken.
who. il is charged. participated in OBJ
tanning the passport. The three men
were to be arraigned later in the after
noon.
Tale Told by Mateiket.
Mrs. Stegler spent the night in 4 cell
in 4 police station. AIateiket. who ap-
peared against her, told the court that
she had attacked him III a room at the
hotel with settler bottle and then had
beaten him over the head with a care.
He showed no marks of an encounter,
however The testimony brought out the
fact that AIateiket and another man had
accompanied two women to the hotel one
Of them being Mrs. Stegler; that the party
had remained in the hotel parlor for some
time and afterward had obtained adjoin-
ing rooms. where they remained until
80 O'Clock.
Mrs. Stegler testified that the party
remained together during the entire pc
Rod they were at the hotel and that the
two men had tried to disrobe her. At no
time. she testified. were she and Nateket
against her 'frame-up."
In dismisSng the complaint the mag
istrate announced that he would be IN
clined to send Mateiket and his male COM
panion to the workhouse if the testimony
concerning their alleged attempts to dis
robe Mrs. Stegler We're more definite and
clear.
In Passport Fraud Charges.
NIrs Staole- hoe .n,oor.a .os.z;-..,
in the passport fraud charges in the
defense of her husband. 1t was through
her influence. she said. that Stegler
gave up the idea of being q German
spy and caused him to make a confess
sion in which he alleged that Capt.
Boy-Ed. the German naval attache,
was behind his activity for the Ger
man cause.
At the hotel it was learned that Mrs
Stegler and Mateiket went to the hotel
about o'clock last night They ar
rived in an automobile and We're ac-
companied by another young man and
woman.
Both men carried suitcases. which
according to the hotel people, they
guarded carefully, even refusing to al
low bellboys to carry them to adjoin
ing rooms, which were assigned to the
two couples after they had registered
at the hotel desk.
About 80 o'clock this morning d 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 COM
panion. Detective burgess says the
woman was fully clothed when he en-
tered the room to make the arrest
Made Appointment With Friend.
Mrs. Stegler told the matron at the
police station that a woman friend of
bers had called her up by telephone and
made an appointment to meet her in
the evening, as she had something i'm
portant to communicate. When they
met her woman friend was accom-
panied by two well dressed young
men. who invited her into their auto
mobile, and later she said they went to
the hotel for dinner. 1t was later when
Mateiket, it is stated began question:
ing her regarding the passport fraud
case. that the row occurred.
The police when they heard the story
of the carefully guarded suit cases
We're inclined to believe that they shell
tered telephone devices for recording
conversations. The men carried the
grips with them when they left the
police station. The police learned that
during the night Matsket several
times called Il German newspaper on
the telephone and held conversations
with some person in German.