New Britain herald., 1915-02-27
ANONYMOUS LETTER
 SENT TO MRS. sTEcLER
Warning German Naval ReStTVIsrs
 Wife 10 Stop Talking.

New 4Ork EeD. Zf.-1hdIltS IL
 Griffiths, attorney for Richard F.
 Stegler, the German naval reserVlst
 arrested here Wednesday on the
 charge of fraudulently obtaining an American passport. announced last
 night that he would put in the hands
 of the federal authorities today an an
 onymous typewriter letter received by Mrs. Stegler which would be com
 pared with letters alleged to have
 been written to Stegler by Captain K.
 Boy-Ed, naval attache of the German
 embassy at Washington. Stegler, ac-
 cording to MT. Griffiths, has told the federal authorities that Captain Boy Ed wanted him to go to England as n spy. The letter, which Captain Boy-Ed yesterday denied having written or knowing anything about, read as fol- lows:
 Reading today's New York Ameri- can, allow me to tell you that it was your fault that your husband has been ! arrested and will have to go to jail | for many years and will be always | looked at scoundrel Accept the ad- 1 vice to keep your mouth shut and do
 not open it before you at first consult
 a lawyer. Besides you put your coun- | will only increase the ill-feeling of the 1 Germans against the Americans and | you know that a war with the Ger mans would be the greatest disaster for the Americans"
 MT. Griffith said that both Mrs. Stegler an American, and Stegler him. self, to whom he showed the letter yesterday in the Tombs prison, had declared that certain characteristics
 of the typewriting and other peculiar ities resembled the letters Stegler had received from Captain Boy Ed,
 now in the possession of the United
 States district attorney. The letter
 was mailed in New York Thursday
 and was addressed to Mrs. Stegler at
 her home, 25 St. Nicholas terrace. NJ.
 Grifiths said that "St. Nicholas" was spelled "St. Nikolas," as in the letter sent by Captain Bqy-Ed, and that it bore the stamp Of the same post office station. He added that Mrs. Stegler was called up on the telephone last night by four persons who advised her to make no efforts to get her husband out of prison.
 Ridiculous Says Boy-Ed.
 This thing is too ridiculous to an- 1 swer," said Captain BoyEd when i asked yesterday if he wrote the letter. | "AII the letters that have gone out Of | this office have been addressed by my l stenographer and l suppose there i must be thousands of typewriters like | the one she uses I have been accused i of so many things that I would not
 be surprised if they tried to fix the
 Rosenthal murder on me, or the re- sponsibiIity for the next subway ac- cident"
 Captain Boy-Ed strongly reiterated his denial that he had had anything to do with Stegler other than to try to help him get a job. ....
 That Stegler had sought the assist ance of George Sylvester Vierick, edi- tor of a German newspaper in obtain ing an American passport, was assert ed by Verick yesterday. Mir. Verick sair that Stegler had come to him and represented that he was engaged in very important confidential work for certain persons high in German official circles and had mentioned Captain Boy-Ed's name. l
 ''I told him." said Mir. Verlck, "that I was an American citizen and would not lend myself to any such proposi- tion as procuring a passport. asked [ him if he represented such important $ persons, where his credentials were. , He said he had destroyed all written matter. I refused to have anything $ to do with him. l. did not believe i him." T
 Uody Case Brought In. g
 Dr. K. A. Fuehr, who Stegler says ! told him that Captain Boy-Ed was responsible for sending to England l ! Carl Hans Lody, the German spy, who was shot in the Tower of London, de- ned yesterday that he had ever made I any such statement whatever of the matter. He said Stegler came to him i, some time in January with letter of z from Captain Boy-Ed. re- : questing a place in the German trans , lation and publicity bureau. of which 7 pr Fuehr is the head Having no r position to offer him. Dr. Fuehr said he 3