Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-28
StegIer Says Captain Wants
Him to Go to England
for His Country,
DIVULGES ALL PLANS


NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Charles II.
~ Griffith, attorney for Richard T..
Stegler the German naval reyerist ar
rested here Wednesday on the charge
Of fraudulently obtaining an American
passport announced tonight that he
would place in the hands Of the fed
eral authorities tomorrow an anony-
nous typewriter letter received by
Mrs Stegler which would be COM
pared with letters alleged to have been
written to Stegler by Capt. X. Boy ed,
naval attaChe of the Germany embassy
| at Washington Stegler, according to Mr..
Grlfnths, has told the federal authori-
ties that Captain Boy-Ed wanted him
to. go to England as a spy
The letter. which Captain BQy-Ed
today denied having written or know,
ing anything about, read as follows:
Reading today's New York Amcri-
can allow me to tell you that II was
your fault thar your husband has been
arrested and will have to go to jail for
many years and VIII be always
looked-aS scoundrel. Accept the ad-
vice TO keep your mouth shut and do
not open ~ before YOU AZ first consult
a lawyer.
'Pesides, yOU put your country in
bad position because your case will
only Increase the ill-Geeling of the
Germans against the American and
you know that war with the Ger
mans would be the greatest disaster
for the Americans"
Letters Receivable.
Mr.. Griffths said that both Mrs.
Stegler and Stegler himself, to whom
he showed the letter today, In the
Tombs prison. has declared that Cera
tain characters of the typewriting and
other peCuliaritles resembed the let.
ters Stegler had received from Cap
tain Boy-Ed, now in the custody OF
1 the United States district attorney.
The letter was mailed in New York
Yesterday and was addressed to Mrs.
Stegler at her home, No. % ST
Nicholas Terrace. Mr.. Grniths said
that st. Nicholas" was spelled est
Nikolas'' as in the letters sent by
Captain BoyE Ed aud that II bore the
stamp of the same postoffice station.
This thing Is too ridiculous to
answer" Captain Boy.Ed said when
asked today IL he wrote the letter.
"Ali the letters thar have gone out
of this office have been addressed by
my stenographer and l suppose there
must be thousands of typewIiters like
! the one she uses"
Captain Boy.Ed strongly reiterated
! his denial that he had had anything
to do with Stegler other than to try
to help him get position.
Wanted Him As Spy.
-Stegler repeated today. Mr.. 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 informed by the naval
attache that the British admiralty was
fitting out at Belfast number of mer-
chantmen which were to be sent dis
guised as German boats to the mouths
OF the Elbe and Weser rivers and sunk
there in order to blockade Cuxhaven,
| Bremershaven and other German
ports.
81 was to get all the information
about this latter" Stegler was quoted
| by Mr.. Griffith as saying. | was also
to watch all shipping movements in
the Mersey. | was TO try to locate
the strength of the English fleet sup
posed to be in st. Georges channel
| was to make absolutely no notes but
to depend entirely on my memory.
IL was then to go to Rotterdam and
then to the German border where |
was to meet German officers and give
]
to Berlin and deliver my information
to Herr Isendall, head OF the German
| Intelligence bureau.
That Stegler had sought the as
sistance OF George Sylvester Vierlck,
editor Of a German newspaper I'm OBJ
tanning an American passport, was as
serted by Nierlck today.
Editor Refuses.
! Mr.. Vierlck said Stegler had come
to him and represented that he was
engaged in very important confidential
work for certain persons high in Ger
man official circles and had men
toned Captain Boy-Ed's name.
IL told him." said Mr.. Vierlck.
that | was an. American citizen and
would not lend myself to any such
proposition Az procuring a passport" q"
DR.. X A. Fuehr, who Stegler says
| told him that Captain Boyd was re-
sponsible for sending to England Carl
I Lody, the German spy who was shot In
/ the Tower OF London, denied today
| that he had ever made any such state
ment to Stegler or knew anything
whatever OF the matter.