The evening world., 1913-05-22
RICH IMMIGRANT
. TO FIGHT AGAINST
!. !. his Deportation
Axel Foenss, Young Danish
Engineer, Seeks Freedom by
Writ Of Habeas Corpus.
SUES STEAMSHIP LINE.
Asks $4,000 Damages for In.
juries Received at Sea on
rii Way Here.
SUES STEAMSHIP LINE.

On Ellis Island. detained for deports-
tion to-day, Is Axei roenss, q young
Danish engineer and inventor. whose
Aght for entrance into this country,
the high seas and on the hospitaole
shores Of America has rarely been
rivailed. A writ Of habeas corpus
10 being sued out for him to prevent
NE steamship company which brought
Mn here from deporting MIN TO Den
mark.
An Evening World reporter came
ae oss him by chance. lie did not look
like the ordinary immigrant His
clothes were new and of a fashionable
cut. His face. intelligent. developed. and
Alert under a mass OF neatly cut. wavy.
blond hair. in the fashion OF his Viking
forefathers, compelled attention. HIS
steady. sray eyes and perfect, scholastic
English bespoke a youth different from
the types whith surrounded him. The
story he told was corroborated In the
main essentials by the immigration men
HAS ouED STEAMSHIP COM.
PANY FOR $4,000.
"They were going to send me back"
he began, with a smile, but have taken
an appeal and there will be writ o:
habeas corpus issued for me some tim >
to-day, according to the message wnich h
l received from my counsel. have beea
in this country eight weeks. seven OF
them in . hospital and one OF liberty,
when took q room in the Twenty.third
-
business. which 10 designing automobiles
Tha. one week has decided me In my
night to remain here. Also. the fact that
I have q $4,000 suit for damages against
the Scandinavian.Am American Steamship
Company helps In the decision to remain
ia nght. cannot afford to he de-
ported. after what has happened.
EARLY In March. after leaving the
Polytechnic Loreanstait. . scientific
college In Copenhagen. my mother. who
y wealthy. gave me half Of my years
allowance and I set out for America
Intending to study the constructio OF
American automobiles Tor the purpose
Of establishing an agency and manu-
factory In Denmark. I had designed
several engines at horae.
''On the steamer Tietjen. March %
while at sea. a wave came over the side
and dashed me against a stanchion.
breaking my right leg In three plac ~
was put in bunk. wrapped In a
blanket and I suppose a doctor would
have set my leg in splints, II We had
not encountered the steamer Texas In
distress and lain by four days trans
ferring passengers
by that time had suffered greatly,
and the leg was knitting in bad shape
When we arrived at Hoboken l was
taken from the ship without being
passed at the immigration Depart.
ment and placed inst. Mary's Hos.
pital. Hoboken. where the doctors broke
my leg again and reset II. Seven weeks
later. with my leg an inch shorter.
vas discharged after paying the bill
GAYS HE'LL RETURN IF HE Ia
DEPoRTED.
81 had read in the papers of Joseph
Shea, a lawyer. and wrote to him
He started suit against the steamship
company and took room
u the Twenty-third street Y
n. c. A. After the suit was
entered, an official of the steamshiI
company called on me and showed m,
oabiegrams signed with my mother.
name. asking me to return homo a.
once. ! cabled tho situation to m,
mother and refused to return.
Yesterday the same official called {
little before 10 o'clock and asked m,
To accompany him. l was assured 4
was necessary for me to surrender my
self to the Government, as l had no
been passed. but was told I would prob
ably be released almost at once. Their
was a hearing at which II war decide,
was likely to become a public charge
and l was ordered deporfed. Well, !
] must 90. ! can assure those re
sponsibie that ] will return with what
ever amount of money Is considere,
necessary to prevent me from becoming
. public charge and will fight 70
entrance here"