New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-10-21
". E. WAJLLNG IN JAIL
HELD BY RUSSIAN POLICE.
Wife and SiSter-in-La5o also Taken
-Wmrant for j. u. James.

81 Petersburg oct 2O-WilIiam English
WaIling Of indianapolis. his wife and his sister
in-lav. Miss Rose Stransky were arrested in
this city tonight by a force Of gendarmes be-
cause of their association with members of the
Finnish Progressive party four of whom were
also taken into custody. The prisoners We're
sent To gendarmerie headquarters A represen-
tative Of the American Embassy went there.
but he take action until tomorrow
morning
After much telephoning by the authorities
places We're found for the prisoners The three
Americans We're separated. Mr.. WaIling was
sent 10 the detention prison, his wife 10 the
women's prison, and Miss stransky, who ap-
parently is regarded the most important
captive, 10 the new jail recently built for the
Third Section. or the Secret Police
Kellogg Durland another American and a
friend Of Mr.. Walling's, who has been in St.
Petersburg gathering material for a series of
lectures. also was arrested. but later he was
released. No evidence on which TO hold MI
Durland was found
Mr. Walling is a wealthy socialist He is a
grandson OF the late William H English who
was candidate for Vice-President in 1850. when
General Hancock ran for the American presi-
dency- For several years Mr.. walng has
taken an active interest in the Russian strug-
gle. and this is the third time he has visited
Russia
The Finnish prisoners with whom the Wall
ings have been associating are three men and
one woman The woman is the wife Of Profess
sor Malmburg Of Helsingfors University. The
Firms have been in St. Petersburg for several
days. They have been under close police OBJ
ssrvaton all the time. Yesterday and to-day
the Firms, Mr. and Mrs. WaIng and Miss
stransky dined together. and tonight the entire
party was taken into custody.
Il was impossible TO learn tonight what the
charge was against the four Firms. This will
determine the accusation against Mr.. Walling.
but a member of the Secret Service who ac-
compan:ed the gendarmes who made the arrest
said the order of arrest had originated in his
section and that the Secret Service had been
shadowing Mr.. Waling constantly for the last
two years.
The police have been instructed to look also
for James NJ. James, a New York newspaper
man. who has been over here for New York
weekly paper and several socialist papers. Mr..
James left St Petersburg several days ago, and
has not yet returned. He has been taken into
custody twice in raids on revolutionary gather
tngs in this city, but was released upon prov
ing that he was present in his journalistic ca
pacity only.
The arrests were made at the Hotel de
France, one Of the leading hotels Of this city.
The rooms of the Walling party and the Films
were thoroughly searched by a colonel of gen.
darues and several assistants This search
lasted several hours. All the baggage and ef-
.ects Of the Walling party and the four Firms
we're opened, and the gendarmes took posses
sion Of a large quantity Of books and docu-
nentary material.
Mr. walling and his wife who is known to
the literary world as Anna Stransky, and Miss
stransky we're taken TO gendarmerie headquar-
tiers. because all the prisons are overcrowded
and no other place Of confinement could at first
be found.
Mr walling has just returned TO st. Peters
burg from attending the Socialist congresses in
Germany and France. He also spent sew
eral months recently in Geneva, where he fire.
ouented the headquarters Of the Russian revo-
lutfonists He is intimate with many leading
revolutionists and Liberals. Mr.. Walling is
accused by the police Of furnishing financial
aid to the revolution. though this charge is not
the foundation for his arrest tonight.
The arrest Of william English Walling in St
Petersburg night recalls reports Of his arrest IN
the Russian capital in January, 1906 which origi-
mated with the editor of a Jewish newspaper in
New York but which were at once denied from St
Petersburg.
Mr. WaIling is thirty years old. He is a Of
Dr. Wiuoughby WallinR, Of Chicago. formerly
United States Consul at Edinburgh. h IS grad
tate - the University Of Chicago He inherited a
considerable fortune from the estate OF his grand
father William H. English, Of indianapolis, and
after working among the poor OF Chicago and New
York City Ne associated himself with the Uni
yersity Settlement at Rivington and Eldridge
streets. He lived there for two years, and was an
intimate associate Of J. c. Phelps Stokes and Rob-
ert Hunter
Mr. Wauing is described as having been a quiet,
reserved man until he aroused on the subject
Of child labor Then he forced himself to the front
an aggressive champion against children work
ing IN factories. His energies and his means were
enlisted IN this cause. At one time he was state
factory inspector IN Illinois.
Mrs Waning who Miss Anna stransky. is a
graduate Of Leland Stanford Junior University,
California. She has done considerable literary work
She is q Jevgess, twenty-six years old. and
horn IN Russia She has lived in the United States
Since childhood Her father is business man in
San Francisco.
DIsPATcA From MR DuRIANn