The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-03-04
Woman, When Arrested, As.
SertS Newspaper Man and
Friends Sought to Trap Her
in a New York Hotel.
YIELDS CANE AND BOTTLE
New and Sensational Angle Add.
ed to Passport Row, Which
Involves Naval At
tache of Kaiser.

New York. March Mrs. Richard p
Stegler, arrested today at the Grenobls
hotel on a charge of felonious assault
made by Arthur Mateiket, reported for
q German newspaper, was discharged
later in police court. Had certain evi.
dence been more definite, the magis.
trate said. he would have been inclined
TO send her accuser to the workhouse
Almost at the moment Mrs. Steg.
lers discharge in police court the fed
eral Judge returned an indictment
charging her husband with conspiracy
against the United States in obtaining
an American passport falsely. StegleT
Is a German naval reservist. Two
Others were indicted with him, Rich
ard Madden. in whose name the pass,
port was issued and Gustave Cook. OF
Hoboken, who. 1t Is charged, partlci-
pated In obtaining the passport.
The three men were to be arraigned
later in the afternoon.
Lured to Hotel. Room.
Mrs. Stegler spent the night in a cell
in the police station. MGteiket, who
appeared against her. told the court
that she had attacked him in a bed
room with a settler bottle and Their
had beaten him over the e with q
cane. He showed no marks Of an en-
counter, however. The testimony
brought out the fact that Mateiket two
another man had accompanied two
women to the hotel, one of them being
Mrs. Stegler, h a the party had OBJ
tained adjoining rooms, where they
remained until 1920 o'clock. ,
Mrs. Stegler testified that the party
remained together during the entire
period they were at the hotel n the
two men had tried to disrobe her. At
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Mateiket alone. She characterized the
charge against her as "a frame up"
In discharging the complaint against
her the magistrate said he would be
inclined to send Mateiket and his male
companion to the workhouse Of the
testimony concerning their alleged at
tempts to disrobe Mrs. Stegler were
more definite.
At the Grenoble hotel it was learned
that the woman who describes herself
as Mrs. Stegler and Mateiket came to
the hotel about 9 o'clock Sunday night.
They were accompanied by another
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.
Stage Midnight Battle.
About 1 o'clock this morning a call
for the police came from the room to
which Mateiket had been assigned and
when Detective Burgess arrived ne
was asked by the man to arrest his
companion. He charged that the Wom-
an had thrown q settler bottle at Inn,
but that he a lodged 1t and that the
woman had then beaten him over the
head with a cane.
According to the police, Mateiket
showed no signs of the encounter. but
the police had to entertain the com
plant and they locked the woman up.
Detective Burgess says the woman was
fully dressed when he entered the room.
The young woman. who claims TO be
Mrs. Annetta Stegler, according to the
police, told the police matron that she
considered she had been trapped. She
said that a friend, Ann Hoffman by
name, had called her by telephone and
made an appointment to meet her in
the evening as she had something I'M
portant to
When they met, her woman friend
was accompanied by two well dressed
young men who invited her INTO their
automobile, and later, she said. they
went to the hotel for dinner. 1t was
later when Mateiket, she stated, began
Questioning her regarding the passport
fraud case, that the row occurred.
Sends for Attorney.
The young woman requested that
Charles Griffith, who is counsel for
Richard P. Stegier, be sent for, and it
Is believed he will appear in court later
today when the young woman Is ar
~raigne6.
The police. when they heard the story
of the carefully guarded suitcases, were
inclined to believe that they sheltered
telephone devices for recording con-
versations. The men carried the grips
with them when they left the police
station. The police learned that during
the night Mateiket several times called
a German newspaper on the telephone
ana held conversations with some per
son in German.