The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-27
K. P. Stegler Charges He Was Asked to Go to
 England as a Spy
TYPEWRITTEN LETTER
 IS GIVEN AS EVIDENCE
German Attache Denounces Charge as Absurd, But Editor Con- firms the Testimony
 of Stegler

New York, February 2E.-ChsrIes H. 6riffitbs, attorney for Richard P. ctexler. the German naval reservist arrested here Wednesday on charge of frsuduIeutly obtsining an American passport, announced tonight that he weald place In the bands of the federal svthorit1es tomorrow an anonymous kyrewrfttcn letter received by Mrs. steslex. which would be compared with letters alleged to have been written to Stesicr by Captain K. Boy-Ed. naval attache of the German embassy at Washington. stegler. according to MT. Df1es that Captain Boy-Ed wanted him to 90 to England as . spy.
 The letter, which Captain Boy Ed today denied knowing anything about, read:
 Reading today's New York American, allow mo to tell you that it was your fauit that your husband has been ar rested and will have to go to jail for many years, and will be always looked ss scoundrel. Accept the advice to keep
 
 you at first consult lawyer. Besides you put your country in bad position because your case will only increase the iil feeling of the Germans against and the Americans and you know that a war with the Germans would be the geratest disaster for the Americana
 Letters Similar
 Griffiths said that both Mrs. Stegler and StegIer himself had declared certain char acteristics of the typewriting and other pecularities resembled the letters Steg- Ter. 1t is alleged, had received from Cap tain Boy-E now in the possession of the United States district attorney.
 This thing is too ridiculous to answer Captain Boy-Ed said. "All the letters that have gone out of this office have oeen addressed by my stenographer, and suppose there must be thousands of y.typevriters like the one she uses. have feer accvsed of 50 many rlsings that I would not be surprized if they tried to fix the Rosenthal murder on me or the responsibility for the next subway acci- dent"
 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 position.
 Stegler repeated today, Griffiths said his declaration that Captain Boy-Ed had wanted him to go to England as a spy. As told by the attorney. Stegler was In- formed by the naval attache that the British admiralty was fitting out mer- chantmen which were to be sent, dis gnised as German boats, to the mouths of tho Elbe and Weser rivers and sunk to blockade German ports.
 Tells of Duties
 T was to go and get all the informa- ton I could about this,'' Stegler was quoted by Griffiths as saying. q also was to watch all shipping movements in the Mersey. was to try to locate the strength of the English fleet, supposed to be in St. Georges channel. I then was to go to the German border where l was to meet German officers and give them a secret password. was to go to Berlin and deliver my information to the head of the German intelligence bureau" George Sylvester Vierick, editor of a German newspaper, declared today that Stegler sought his assistance in obtain- | ing an American passport. vierick said Stegler had represented that he was en- gagged in confidential worK TOT German officials. and had mentioned Captain Boy-Ed's name.
 "I told him. said vierick, that I was an American citizen, and would not lend myself to any such proposition as pro- curing passport"
 Dr. K. A. Fuehr. head of the German publicity bureau here, who Stegler says told him that Captain Boy Ed was respon- sible for sending to England Carl Hans | x4cdy, the German spy shot in the Tower Uf London, denied today that he had made any such statement or knew anything ' hatever of the matter. He said StegIer came to him sometime in January with Ia letter of introduction from Captain Ecy-Ed. requesting a position. Having m position to offer him, Dr. Fuehr said he sent him to vierick.
 Confer on Charge Washington, February 26.-Results of