Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1915 — Stegler Sentenced. [ARTICLE]

Stegler Sentenced.

Richard P. Stegler, German naval officer charged with conspiracy to obtain a passport to Germany, was sentenced to serve sixty days in jail. Stegler charged that a representative of the German government in the United States, who on account of his position is immune from arrest, was the arch conspirator in the plot to obtain the false passport. Madden and Cook who were sentenced with Stegler, were given a ten months’ sentence. Stegler wished to get a passport in order to go to England as a spy, representing himself as an agent for an American firm.