The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-26

New York, Feb. Richard Peter
Stegler, the young German reservist
arrested by Government agents on
Wednesday night on "a charge of OBJ
tanning by fraud a United States pass
pc TT. repeated and amplified today MS
assertion that he was acting under the
direction of Captain. Boye, naval at
tache of the German Embassy. lie
told his counsel. Charles Il. Grifhth,
that during his interviews with Cap
tain Boye and his talks with persons
he met at CAY tain Boyes room at the
&c rman consl late here. he had heard
much talk Of an organization work
ing to secure fraudulent United States
p6 ssports foc German reseryists ana
spies and that Captain Boye was the
director of all these schemes.
He told me also. said Mr.
Griffiths. that Or. Fuehr, whom he
met while going to see Captain Boye.
had informed him that Captain Boye
had directed the plans by which Carl
Hans Lody secured a United states
passport ami was sent TO England"
I Carl Hans Lody was the ex-naval
lieutenant who lived for time in
Omaha, Neb,, and married an Ameri-
can wife. He went to England was
accused OF being spy and executed
in the tower of London on November
10 last
Stegier's wife, young Southern
woman whom he married last De-
cember. Joined her husband in accus-
Ing the Germ an naval attache of at
tempting to secure Steglers services
as a spy and to send him to England
Mr.. Boye vas the leader she said.
IF my husband needed any money,
RI gardless of the amount, II he went
to Mr. Boye and said. i need 500,
the money would be forthcoming.
| All of these allegations were denied
by Captain Boye, who said that most
OF them were too ridiculous 10 merit
reply. Early In the day he did, now
ever. give out a formal statement con-
corning Stegler's charges and tonight
ne added to II is by saying that he had
known nothing about Carl Hans Lody
teycept that he understood that he had
CT me from Germany to this country 70
sell airships and had married here. Il
am surprised" said the captain. TO
Eear that Stegler has asserted that
Dr.. Fuehr ted such thing about
me-" He added that Dr. Fuehr Is not
connected with the consulate and that
he knew him merely as a German
journalist who wrote for American
publications.
Makes General Denial.
Captain Boye's statement contained
general denial of the knowledge OF
any organization havirg for its pur-
pose the securing OF fraudulent pass
Ports, but ii IS known that the Depart
Ioent of Justice has what 1t believes
to be evidence OF something more
than sporadic attempt to misuse
United StNes passports, and while II
l., not believed that there was any con-
ne ction between Stogler's case and
that of the six men arrested on Janu-
tary for alleged passport frauds. it ts
Lx1 hot tr,fh at Mt and her1
were directed from the same source.
Assistant United States Attorney
Wood, who has charge of the cases OF
Stegler and Grstave Cook, Hoboken
waiter, and Richard Madden. Ho-
boken laborer arrested in connection
with Stegler's Gaze. was reluctant to
discuss the mttter. When asked If, as
trail nigh lead up to high German
officials. he would only say.
MY lips are sealed 1t would be
Lr fair for me to state
When 1t was suggested that inter-
national matters connected with the
passports charges were so delicate thrt
pt rhaps the prosecution officers might
not be very keen about pursuing evil
lcence beyond the men personally In
lvolved In the frauds, Mr. Wood said:
This department viii get to the
Very bottom Of whatever there Is to
get to the bottom of The rest OF the
work, II there is any to be done. is up
to Washington
Another statement of Stegler's
which. Will, only tending to make
r,ore obscure the tangle of motives
limited at in this passport fraud case.
was interesting when taken In connec-
ton with the assertion that there is a
passport conspiracy. when secret SER
wee men had been ret on his trail by
certain German officials" Stegler' 5
counsel said.
There ts reason to believe that the
secret service agents got.theirs first. tip
about Stegl sr's efforts to secure q
United States citizens passport
4 rough Germ an oficials, who feared