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Show FEDERAL Hi JURY WILL REPORT TODAY Stegler, Alleged Spy, Will Likely Turn State's Evidence Evi-dence if Prosecuted NEW YORK, Feb 28 The federal grand jury s expected to report tcjmor row the result of its Investigation in the cases of Richard Peter Steg er Gus tav Cook and Richard Madden wl o are held in $15 000 eacl charged with coo splracy to defraud tho government thrOUoh fraudulent passports Stegler has indicated a des re to assist the govern n ent s Invest gat on It was lea ned today tl at in his ef forts to secure a passport Heg er V sited Mr Hans Heine Ewers a local phys c an to w horn he is al e0ed to 1 ave repre sented that he (Steg er) was employed by Captain Boy Ed the German aval attache and the German government as a spy and that he had a letter from tl e Ge man intelligence department In Ber 1 n ordering him to get a passport and do esp onage wo s abroad Dr Ewers stated ton ght that he cal ed Captaln Boy Ed o er t e phone after Stegler s vis t and the atter told 1 im that Stegler was an in poster I had noth ng further to do with Stegler after I ta ked witl Captain Boj Ed Dr Ewers said WASHINGTON Teb 2S A statement ssued todav by the German en bassv n tbe name Of Co nt von Bernstorff the embassador announced that the main faets in the Steg er passport case with which the came of Captain Boy Ed naval attache of the embassy has been con nected have been communicated to the state department Tl e staten ent follows The main facts of the Steg er af fa r as far as tl e na al attacl e is concerned have been communicated by me to the state department. I must refrain from dealing in any deta 1 with the false statements and fantastic allegations of Steg er and his wife which are u tip y ng f om day to day and are of a patho oglcal character T ere may be other notlves In question but in any case the whoe matte looks vers much like an at tempt of b ackmall w c failed It Is up to the ludges and tl e pub lc op n on to form the r own judgment of the re ab 1 ty of Stea er |