The San Francisco call., 1908-05-15
BUWALDA DECLARES
HE'S NO ANARCHIST
Private Soldier on Trial at Pre-
sidio Contradicts Testimony
of Policemen
Excuses Attendance at Goldman
Meeting as Due to Study
of Shorthand

Private William Buwalda, United
sidio yesterday to extricate himself
from the plight in which he placed him
self by his association with Emma Gold
man while she was delivering her an
archistic speeches in this city two
weeks ago. He admitted before the
of her meetings and that he had shaken
hands with her on the stage. He de-
nice. that he had any affiliation with her
cause and said that he only went to her
meetings because he was studying
shorthand. and the language of Emma
he would listen to her speeches to see
If he could take them down.
The court martial convened at $50
o'clock yesterday morning, with Colonel
Frederick Marsh as president of the
board
TESTIMONY OF POLICE
Captain II. Gleeson of the San Fran
cisco police department testified that on
April &c he attended the Goldman meet
ing at Walton's pavilion and listened to
the speech. which he considered to be
of the most anarchistic order. He saw
Buwalda sitting in the audience and
saw him applaud Emma Goldman's re-
marks twice, and noticed him particu-
larly as he was the only soldier in the
audience. Later Buwalda walked upon
the stage and shook hands with Emma
Goldman, much to the surprise of
everybody in the audience. Gleason
added that the whole of Goldman's
speech was in a spirit of rebellion
q or a Ia ufr,I
there was not one remark that could
receive any applause from any sup
porter of the constitution of the United
States
Detective A. f. McPhee testified in
the same lines as Captain Gleeson.
QUOTES BUWALDA'S WORDS
Police Officer J. w. Boyle. who is
stenographer to Chief Biggy, threw
sort of bombshell into the court when
he said that he heard Buwalda say to
Emma Goldman, Il sympathize with
you while Buwalda was shaking
hands with the woman on the stage
Boyle read excerpts from his notes
taken at the meeting, quoting Goldman,
one of the remarks being to the effect
that the army and navy were legalized
murderers" Boyle added that he was
so incensed at the remarks of Goldman
that If he had had his own way he
would have pulled her off the stage.
BUWALDA STATES HIS DEFENSE
Buwalda then took the stand in his
own defense. He said: II went to EN-
ma Goldman's meetings simply because
L am studying shorthand and 1 wanted
to see If l could take down what she
said The reason 1 went UP on the
stage to see her was because I wanted
to see her at closer range. As I went
upon the stage Emma Goldman came
forward and held out her hand, and I
shook hands with ker and said, How do
YOU do? I did not say I sympathize
with your cause
Il did not realize at the time what
was doing, but I realize now my posi-
ton. l did not applaud her remarks.
as was taking down notes and could
not do so. | have no sympathy with
the spirit of her remarks. I went to
four of her meetings. At the first one
l happened to be passing by Walton's
hall and went in. 1 was struck with
her peculiar vocabulary, and so 1 went
again, just to see If I could take it all
down correctly. / have taken down a
speech of Judge Lindsay, and some
times l have been to churches to try
and see If l could quote what I heard
there correctly"
QUESTIONED BY COURT
AT this point Colonel Marsh said: 4Do
you think that Emma Goldman's speech