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Show rjPASSPORTS FRAUD All but Two of Talesmen Are American born Citizens. STEGLAR TAKES STAND j Tells of Paying $100 for False Birth Certificate Cer-tificate KT YORK March 16 Before a Jury selected beca thev had neutral opln tons on the European war and al but two of thetn merlcan born Rl hard Madde and Oastavft Cook ?er placed on trta In the federal court todtij charged 1th aldinfc Richard P Stegler a German na al ' reeervlet, to obtain a false n erican passport egler who also la under Ind rtment. took the stand and testified against them Hie oae iU be called for trla ater but owing to the fa t that he ha a become the governments witness and confessed toda that he had sought to obtain an American passport fraud lantly and had employed Cook and Madden to aid him the charge against Mm In the belief of A W attorney s will not be pressed I It had been rumored that tecrler would repeat on the stand that part of his con fession to the ro eminent authorities in "which he Is alleged to ha e said that he had been urged by Captain K Bov Ed Oarrnan naval attache at Washington to fro to Bngland as a Garros n spy and had obtained the paeport for this purpose. Neither on direct or cross examination, however, did Captain Boy Bd s name en ter into his testimony TeIL of Troubles Stealer ald that In January he had met Cook In Ho token and asked his aid In retting the papers necessary for him to obtain an American passport paying him $10 in advance for his services. Cook he said procured for him naturalization papers of a German born citizen These he said he told Cook would not do whereupon Cook Introduced him to Mad den. I told Madden. saM the witness, that I the people whom I represented would pay JlOO for the papers I needed. Madden, he said, procured hi (Mad dn s) baptismal certificate for him but this also waa not the paper needed. Gladden then secured a certificate of his blrti from the bureau of vital sta tlstlcs In Hoboken and with this teg ler said he succeeded In the name of j Klchard Madden In obtaining the pass port. He paid Madden 5100 he said Admits Perjurj k He admitted that he had sworn falsely in making his application On cross examination Charles F Ober "wager attorney for the defendants after attempting to attack tester's character brought out from the witness that previous pre-vious to his arrest he had told his storv to a reporter of a "New York newspaper and had been put on the paper's pay roll He waa asked if he had not said to Cook that It was the purpose of the paper's owner to show up Mr Bryan tegler denied having made such a Statement, also a statement that he could get money from other sources for repudiat ng his story Mr Oberwager eald he wanted to chow that ctegler,a i motives were purely mercenarv 3tgler 'adltrtled thairne had- gone wftlr his story to the editor of another paper and had been gtven a Job at P 60 a da teglers examination will be continued tomorrow |