Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-26
City Council of t,---4dn Capital Goes
on hCcU-l Against tae
Tx ss1 e5.
WOULD PR0IE HE INNOCENT
judicial Wrong Done to q Group Of
Miners is RI htcd.
TWO OF TIE s LIS ARE lead
Wro1ged Men GeA. - Prison By Ter
i1red Tcstincny.
SINGER WAS &C. CsT EUT0G1AT
Dcrth of tho Nost leader cf Ger nnn
socI-7Ista Rccp,l. the Trirls of
Other Vc~r----ITonors for
p7~-',1,er,
PRoIE- HE INNOCENT
SINGER WAS ec -sT AUToo2AT

] NOtAa' aANtN AffNt o. AAN AA-Af'
Other Yc-r-----ITonors for
p7--',rer.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
BERLIN. Feb. 25.-Cspecinl to The Bee)-
curb Is to be placed on the city police,
who are accused OF having initiated the
police Of New York City recently. consti-
tutlng themselves captors, judges and exc
cutioners.
At It's last meeting the city council unan-
imously passed a resolution calling on the
government to adopt suitable measures to
prevent the excesses OF the police in any
action it may be necessary for them to take
to restore public order, and especially in
jury to the persons and property Of inno-
cent people.
This shows what Berlin thinks Of the out
come OF the Boabit labor strike trials,
judicial Wrong Righted TOO Late.
What has long been considered even by
government officials as a monstrous Judi
cial wrong has in a measure been undone,
though its baneful consequences can never
be made good in this world. as two OF the
victims are dead. Fifteen years ago six
miners were sentenced, at Essen, TO poani
servitude for perjury. Uneeo- the accused.
"a man named Schroeder, had only a short
time previously been received as a mem
Der of the miners deputation by the en-
porer. He had, however. Joined a socl0listic
trade union. and became its president. In
this capacity, he attended at meeting which
was being held in connection with the for
nation OF a Christian organization among
the miners of the district. He was, how
ever. told that the gathering was not pub
lie, and ordered to leave. As he was de-
manding his penny back from the man al
the door he Was seizei by a policeman
named Munter. and flung to the ground.
What appears to have been truthful
account OF the incident was published in the
socialist paper, and Munter prosecuted the
editor for libel What ne said had hap
pened was that he had accidentally brushed
against Schroeder, and so caused him tc
fall.
, All sent TO Prison.
He called a number Of witnesses who
however, could say no more than that thes
had not seen Munter fling him down. Or
the other side were Schroeder and many
! witnesses. who concurred exactly in their
/ evidence Schroeder and his comrades wer,
+ put on trial for perjury convicted and
r sentenced to terms Of two and half, thre'
4 and three and "A half years penal servitude
The editor was convicted, also.
The six men, who had protested theii
innocence, served out their severe punish
J., ments and refused to sign an appeal fol
3 the remission of the whole or any part o.
I II. AS soon as released they set to worl
TO secure the reopening OF the case. Al
e these years they have been accommodating
s evidence to diseredit the testimony OF Nun
= ter, and at last they established so over
d towering case that the higher courts or
8 dered a retrial II was proven that Mum
y ter, who, like two OF his victims, is nov
dead, was disreputable character who's,
2 word was not TO be trusted, and 50 wha
was the whole foundation on which tn,
conviction had been based collapsed.
: When the time came for the crown coun
: sci to address the jury at the rehearing h
Is astonished the court by announcing tina
il he did not attach the slightest impoiPane,
o TO hunters evidence, and, asking for al
}. acquittaL The jury did not waste mucl
e time in acquiescing in his demand.
d These deeply -wrOnged men will have to b
d satisfied with their moral clearance Their
: is no legal machinery for furnishing then
with pecuniary compensation for the In
Justices done TO them and their families an
their loss of wages for years.
Paul Singer Had Troubles.
r The late Paul Singer, the socialist leade
in Parliament, was prosperous bushes
man when he was elected to the municipa
3 council twenty-seven years ago. Later n
was elected to Parliament. In 1855 he wa
expelled from Berlin under the law agains
socialism. He gave up business altogethe
to devote himself 10 politics Although tn
y Berlin order OF expulsion was repeated a
- Frankfort and at offenbach. Singer re
- NAMED a member Of the Reichstag, o
which, as the president. IN announcing hi
death, remarked he was one of the Oiaes
members. He returned when the la,
against socialism was dropped, and 10
twenty years he had controlled the des
- tinies OF the socialist party, and was re
- sponsihle In q high degree Cor its eN
," traordinary expansion. He was an extrem
radical but a typical bourgeoise, fearles
!, In strong measures. and yet a caution
N leader who achieved not the least OF hi
successes by discipline. which made hi1
= an unrivaled authority on Parliamentar
procedure. Abuse. based largely on IN
fact that he remained "a man OF property,
did him little harm
,e HOnOrs for n Plumber.
Harry Plate. a master plumber, OF HAND
YER has been honored by the kaiser, VIII
has conferred on him lifelong membel
ship OF the Prussian upper chamber HeI
Plate ia one Of the leading labor leader
he was for years chairman OF the Hanov,
Chamber OF Commerce and also OF the Ma
tional Association OF Artisans Chamber
A Plate has lived In many European couI
= tries while working as a iourneyma
plumber and speaks several Languages. n
Cologne Gezette says Germany Is gratifls
az Herr Plates elevation 70 the upp,
house Of the Prussian Parliament
Heavy she'll ON Lat.
"a Inspection Of the new list OF guns issue
~ by Krupp shows that the new Seine
n weapon which appears IN that list weigl
Ne 1,9l pounds. II is thus heavier BY
pounds than the shell OF the new Britir
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