The sun., 1908-04-04
ANARCHIST BERKMAN FREED
NO GROUNDS TO CONNECT HIN
WITH BOHB THROWING.

CAn Ippltt, one OI the buspeeN ho Ethoo
GOT After the Union square AhaiF,
Ordered 10 he DepOrted Socialists
10 Meet 20 Protest and 10 Report
Alexander Berkman, the treasurer Of
the Anarchist Federation Of America,
who was arrested on suspicion Of having
had hand in the bomb explosion In Union
Square on Saturday last and who was
subsequently, released on $500 cash bail.
was discharged by Magistrate Drosgs
In the jefferson Market court yesterday
afternoon. Lieut., Wersansky Of the Head
quarters detective stan admitted that
the police did not have sufficient evidence
TO establish Berkman's completely In tho
deed Of Selig Silverstein, the mad jewish
boy who is now lying in Bellevue Hospital
A. the point Of death as ihs result OF the
premature explosion OF the homb IN hlA
hA IDS.
When Berkmans case was called and
the detective from Headquarters told the
Magistrate that despite their first sus-
pioions the police had been unable to
And anything In the letters taken from
siyerstein's room incriminatlng the an
archst leader Meyer London, his attorney,
seemed disposed to criticise the police
for arresting his client and the Court for
holding him. Magistrate Droege cut the
attorney short.
This man has served term IN prison
for deed Of violence said he, and now
that he Ia out Of prison he continues TO
profess the tcnets Of anarchy. just 80
long as he does this he will he no more
immune from the espionage Of the police
than ia a burglar who has served time for
his crimes and who is free again have
been advised that Commissioner Bingham
has given orders to all the police force to
keen strict watch over the doings OF all
avowed anarchists and suspected trouble
makers in the city. Berman comes within
this class The police are not 10 be blamed
for having their suspicious about him
Berkman had little TO say after the Court
had discharged him except TO reiterate his
former declarations that he was an apostle
Of peace and that he had been held un-
Justly.
A report was circulated yesterday to
the effect that the postal authorities were
inauguratng a campaign against anarchist
literature on orders from Washington,
but at the office Of the post Office inspectors
yesterday afternoon It was said that no
order directing special vigilance against
the passage through the mails OF anarrhistIc
publications had been received. .,
Carl Uppitt, the young Russian who
happened to be gathered in by the police
roundup Of suspects following the bomb
explosion in Union Square and who ad,
mitted to the police that he had deserted
the command Of a ship in the Russian navy
and fed the country because Of his COM
plioity in the pottings Of the revolutionary
party there WAS delivered over 10 the
immigration officials oi Ellis Island yes
terday for examination on an order Tor
his deportation.
Magistrate Herman sitting in the Jeiier-
son Market court yesterday morning re-
ceived teegraphed warrant from wash
ingtOn for the surrender OF lppltt 10 As
sistant Immigration Commissioner Joseph
Murray, who Is acting in the absence OF
Commissioner WatchOrn IN Europe, THIS
was the first application OF the new ruling
made by the immigration bureal TO cover
the deportation Of anarchists under. the
criminal prohibition clause. -
In a fearful plea made by Cppltt to the
Magistrate Of Jefferson Market court
several days ago the suspected anarchist
said that his deportation would mean
inevitable death as a deserter and plotter
against the Czars peace.
The executive 90 mmttee OF the New
York section Of the Socialist party. which
is 10 have a mass meeting in Grand Central
Palace this afternoon 10 protest against
police brutality at Union square on
Saturday, announced Yesterday that Com
rade Robert Hunter is preparing state
ment Of what happened at Union square:
MIR Hunter il one OF the committee OF
Socialist sleuths appointed to find out all
about the throwing of the bomb.
Mr. Hunter has been attending the meet
ings OF the committee at the headquarters
of the Socialist party on Elghty-lourth
street near Second avenue, conterHng
with the other comrades on the committee,
Of which Joshua Wanhope editor VI a
Socialist magazine, is chairman ana VIII
aid in getting up the printed statement
giving the testimony Of Hunter aud the
others as 10 the attempts to get up the
mass meeting the behavior Of the police
and the bomb throwing Secretary solo
mon Of the New York section OF the Socialist
party said lc9t evening thet charges NAV
be made against some Of the policemen at
Union square.
sThe mass meeting on Saturday after
noon" he said, is not called to denounce
the police. We certainly, however viii
not praise them. The speakers will describe
the object Of the gathering and those
who were at Union square viii descrlDt
what happened last Saturday before and
after the bomb throwing The speakers
will be Algernon Lee Joshua Wanhope
Morris Hilquit Robert Hunter and Thomas
j. Lewis Carpenters Union 800 sent
committee 10 us with a report that tht
union had authorized the use Of its funds
to prosecute the police in any charges
which may be made against them, Com;
Tade Hunter is now writing up the facts
AZ the meeting in Grand Central Palace
there will be lots Of police both in uniform
and plain clothes / suppose. We will b'
willing 10 provide a committee for every
policeman TO assist him in preserving order
We viii have stenographers there 10 TAXI
the speeches, not necessarily for publication
but Tor our own protection. u Is likely
there to report the proceedings, which viii
all he in English. Well. we will have ou
steAographers there so that the speaker
cannot be accused Of saying things tina
they never said