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Show Stegler Denounced as Traitor antl Coward Defendants In Pass port Case Deny Charges Made by Government Govern-ment Witness Now York, Mareh 17. Testimony in tho trial of Itlchard Madden nnd Gustavo Cook, accused of nldlng Itlchard Itlch-ard P. Stegler, Gorman naval reservist, reserv-ist, to procure a falso American pass-port, pass-port, was completed today. Tho caso will go to tho Jury tomorrow after tho government Bums up Its enso Madden and Cook each took tho Bland today in hia own defense Each covered genoral denial to tho material mate-rial allegations In tho government chnrbfifs and swor0 that tho toatl mony glen against them by Stog-ler, Stog-ler, ns tho government's witness, was untruo. Madden, who was accused by Stegler Steg-ler of furnishing him his birth certl flea to to emib'o him to procuro the passport in Maddon's namo, denied ovor having seen Stegler. Ho sworo that tho certificate In question had boon stolen from him by threo (lor-mans (lor-mans named "Hen, Goorgo and Oscar," Os-car," whllo ho was Intoxicated. Ho had procured tho certlllcuto for his own uso, ho said. Summing up for tho defonso, coun-sel coun-sel characterized Stegler as a traitor trait-or to his country, who had an ambition ambi-tion to bo n spy, but who had lost courage nt tho last momont nnd h;iJ tried to profit by tho situation by selling sell-ing his story to newspapers. Ho do-clarcd do-clarcd (hat H was "to bad that Stegler Steg-ler was not allowed to bocomo n spy and get caught by tho right people." |