New Britain herald., 1915-03-01

Grenoble hotel on a charge of felonious assa ult made by Arthur Mateiket, re- porter for a German newspaper, was discharged later in police court. Had certain evidence been more definite, the magistrate said he would have been inclined to send her accuscr tc the workhouse.
 Charged With Conspiracy.
 Almost at the moment of her dis charge in police court, the federal grand jury returned an indictment charging her husband with conspiracy against the United States in obtain ing an American passport falsely. Stegler is German. naval resefNlst. TWO others were indicted with him,
 Richard Madden, in whose name the Passport was issued, and GustaNe Cook of Hobollen, who, it is charged. parucipa ted in obtaining the passport. The three men were to be arralgned later in the afternoon
 Mrs. Stegler spent the night Tn cell in police station. Matelket, who appeared against her, told the court that she had atta cked him In a bedroom with seltaer bottle and tben had beaten him over the head with a cane. He showed no marks of an encounter, however. The testl- mcny brought out the fact that Mateiket and another man had ac- CCmpanied the two women to the hotel, one of them being Mrs. Stegler; that party had remained in the hotel parlor for some time, and afterwards lad obtained adjoining rooms, where they remained until 1:30 o'clock.
 Party Remained Together.
 Mrs. Stegler testified that the party remained together during the entire period they were at the hotel and that two men had tried to disrobe her. At no time, she testified, were she and Mateiket alone. She characterized the charge against her as con spiracy.
 In dismissing the complaint, the magistrate announced that he would be inclined to send Mateiket and his male companion to the workhouse if the testimony concerning their al legged attempts to disrobe Mrs. Steg- Ter were more defpite and clear.
 Guarded Suit Cases.
 At the Grenoble Hotel it was learned that the woman who de- scribes herself at Mrs. Stegler and Mateiket came to the hotel about , o'clock Sunday night. They arrived in an automobile and were accom- ranicd by another young man and woman. Both men carried suit cases, which, according to the hotel people, they guarded carefully, even refusing to allow bell boys to carry them to adjoining rooms which were assigned to the two couples after they had registered at the hotel desk.
 About 1 o'clock this morning a call for the police camc from the room to which Mateil<et had been assigned and when Detective Burgess arrived he was asked by the man to arrest his companion. He charged that that woman had thrown a seltzer bottle at him, but that he had dodged it and that the woman had then beaten him over the head with a cane. According to the police Mat eiket showed no signs of the en- counter. but the police had to en- tertain the complaint and they locked up the woman in the West filth St. precinct in care of the matron. De- tective Burgess says the woma" was fully clothed when he entered the room to make the arrest.
 Sends For Griffith.
 The alleged Mrs. Annette stegler, according to the police told the ma tron that a woman friend of hers, An ma Hoffman had called her up by tel ephone and made an appointment to meet her in the evening as she had something important to communicate. When they met her woman friend was accompanied by two Well-dreSSCd young men. who invited her into their automobile, and later, she said they went to the hotel for dinner. It was later, when Mateillet, ii is stated, be- gan questioning her regarding to the passport fraud case that the row oc- cured. The young woman requested that Charles Griffith, who is counsel fer Richard r. Stegler, be sent for.
 The police, when they heard the story of the carefully guarded Sult cases, were inclined to believe that they sheltered telephonic devices for recording converse tions. The man car ried the grips with them when they left the police station. The police learned that during the night Matcik- ct several times called German newspaper on the telephone and held conversations with some person in German.
 Prominent in Passport Case.
 Mrs. Annette Stegler has appeared prominently in the passport fraud charges in the defense of her husband, Richard P. Stegler. 1t was through her influence, she said that StcGlcr gave up the idea of being a German spy and caused him to make q confcs- sion in which he alleged that Captain Boy Ed the German naval attachc. was behind his activity for the Ger man cause.