New-York tribune., 1909-04-09
EMMA GOLDMAN'S FATE
NAY NOU1 BE DEPORTED.
Buffalo COurt RCTOEcS Citizenship
If First Husband

Pittsrurg April S-A decree handed down by
. Judge Hazel in the United states Court for the
Western District Of New York to-day closed
proceedings which have been under WaE by the
gove1 nment authorities at Pittsburg for almost
a year with the a,owed purpose of deporting
Emma Goldman. the anarchist from America.
The certificate of citizenship of Jacob Kersne~.
formerly Of Rochester, alleged husband Of
Emma Goldman, was annulcd charges Of
fraud in obtaining il He viii he deported
when found. and It is claimed by the local au-
thorities, who worked the case up under the
personal direction - Secretary Bonaparte, that
the wife VIII also come under the ban and he
deported once outside the country. ii is not
thought likely that Miss Goldman would he
permitted to return.
Emma Goldman. il is understood, claims TO
be the wife Of August Berkman. the anarchist
who attacked II. G. Frtck in Pittsburg some
years ago. asserting that she was married 20
him on his recent release from prison. Accord
ing To the Pittshurs officers who carried their
data into the Buffalo courtroom to-day Emma
Goldman is a higamist. never having separated
legally from Kersaei- 1t is admitted that she
was separated according to Jewish custom from
kersner ia lSS9 bat it Is alleged tina; sic
afterward returned and lived with him
CASE WORKED JP ~ pITTSBCRG.
Palmer : Chambers. ~ PIttsbuIg, assistant
United States attorney Tor the Pittsburg dis
trict and also special assistant United states
attorney FOR the western district Of New York,
worked up the entire case assisted by J"hn
Gutenberg inspector OF the Department OF
Commerce and Labor at New York. and the
Chicago police who aided materially. II IS also
said that for more than year the Department
Of Justice at Washington had worked on the
case.
Last fan Mr. Chambers received special orders
to take his best man aud go 10 Rochester. 20
work on new line in the ersner-Goldman
case Gutenberg was called in and in eight
DAYS the data which resulted in to-days de
cision were laid ol! the desk OF Secretary Bona
parte at Washington
The first suit calling on Kersner t. show
cause why his papers Of citizenship should not
be aunulled was entered quietly In the courts
at Buffalo last September. and the time limit
when the accused man should have answered
expiring to-day. the case vas brought up in the
FuffaIo court and the decision rendered by
Judge Hazel KersDer is now supposed to be
in San Francisco, as are both Berkman and
Emma Goldman.
DIVORCED UNDER JEWISH LAW.
It was found by the governments secret ser
vice men that kersner married Emma Gold
man In Rochester in 1881 and that in 1889 fhe
pair were divorced under the Jewish custom.
Two months after the divorce. it IS asserted
they lived together again man and wife.
This it is claimed would tnvalIdate even the
Jewish divorce did the United States recognize
this divorce as legal ! short time later Emma
Goldman took up with Berkman. living with
him In New York When ne was released from
the penitentiary here after his sentence for at
tempting TO kill II. c. Frick she married
to him in New Jersey. The government. in com
pleting its case, claims the woman is
Eigamst
Kersner was born in Kamnitz. Podalsk, Rus
sia in April 1865 and in June. 1888, he ad-
Initted to the United States through the port
of New YORK. going To Rochester where
October Is. 1854. he naturalizeG in the
Supreme Court of Monroe County swearing
falsely t. his age and to the length of time he
had been in America. II is charged