Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-21
JAILED BY THE GAR
William E. Wa||ing and Wife Are
 Cast Into Russian Cells.
GRANDSON OF w. H. ENGLISH

New York Settlement Workers Are Ar
 rested at St. Petersburg Hotel Charg-
 ed With Being Revolutionary Sym pathizers.
 St. Petersburg, Oct 21. - William English Walling of Indianapolis, U. S. A., his wife and his sister-in-law, Miss Rose Stransky, were arrested in this city by force of gendarmes because of their association with several mem- bers of the Finnish Progressive party. The three Americans we're separated, Walling being sent to the detention prison, his wife to the woman's pris- on and Miss Stransky. who apparently is regarded as equally important with the Wallings, to the new jail recently built for the famous third section, or 1 the secret police.
 Kellogg Durland, another American and friend of Mir. Walling's, who has been in St. Petersburg gathering ma terial for a series of lectures, also was taken into custody, but was released, as no evidence on which to hold him was found.
 James M. James Wanted.
 The police have been instructed to look also for James M. James, a New York newspaper man, who has been here for New York weekly and Eev- eral socialist papers. James left St. Petersburg several days ago and has not returned. He has been taken into custody twice during raids on re-olu- tionary gatherings in this city, but has won release on the ground that his work called him to the meetings.
 MT. Walling is a wealthy socialist and grandson of William H. English, who was vice presidential candidate in 1880, when General Hancock ran for the American presidency. For sev- interest in the Russian struggle, and this is the third time he has visited Russia. The Films with whom the Wallings have been associating also
  three men and one woman. The wom- an is the wife of Professor Malmburg of Helsingfors university The Films have been in St. Petersburg for sev- eral days and have been under close police observation all the time.
 In Leading Hotel.
 The arrest took place at the Hotel de France, one of the leading estab- lishments of this city. The rooms of the Walling party and the Films were thoroughly searched by a colonel Of gendarmes and several assistants. This search lasted several hours. All the baggage and effects of the Walling party and the four Films were opened, md the gendarmes took possession of large quantity of books and docu- mentary material.
 Mir. Walling and his wife, who is known to the literary world as Anna Stransky, and Miss Stransky were first taken to the gendarmerie headquarters because all the prisons were over CF0Nucu uiu HO OlLcL pldtc Nouiu bC found for the moment. Walling had just returned to St. Petersburg from attending the Socialist congresses in Germany and France. He had also spent several months recently in Ge- neva. where he frequented the head quarters of the Russian revolutioniSts. He is intimate with many leading rev olutionists and liberals. He is accused by the police of furnishing financial aid to the revolution. though this charge is not the foundation for his arrest.
 Young Walling was graduated from Chicago university and attended Har- yard law school one year. For two years he was resident worker at the university settlement. New York. There he was closely associated with Robert Hunter and J. G. Phelps Stokes (who married Rose PastOrl.
 Mrs. WaIIing an Authoress.
 Mir. Walling married in Paris Miss Anna StranSky. a Jewess. born in Russia twenty-six years ago. in Feb ruary. 1906. She is the daughter of Elias Stransky. formerly wealthy San Francisco merchant. now living here. having been ruined by the earth quake.
 Mrs. Walling is an authoress and q student of sociology of such advanced ideas that after her marriage she pre- ferred to be known as Anna Stransky, saying that to call herself Mrs. Wall ing would lose her in her husbands