New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28
MYSTERIOUS Robbery OF
$50 Pounds from Arsenal
Alarms TarrytOWn.
POLICE GUARDS
FOR COURT TO-DAY
Becky" Edelson to Adjourn
Workhouse Hunger Strike
Until She Testifies.

,oriouslv stolen from the Greenburg
ARSENAL Of the Du Pont Powder Com
nanv Yesterday. found its way into the
hands of [. W. W. agitators, nine OF
whose friends will go on trial at IL
o,clock this forenoon at Tarrytown, Is
y question which faces Judge Moore
house and the court attendants.
Fvorv precaution has been taken IN
making arrangements for police and
dctec,ives Pressure has been exerted
on President Pierson and the village,
trustees for convictions and suspended
sentences. but nothing has been prom
ised friends of the accused.
The powder incident became known
last night. when the Du Pont company
informed Judge Moorehouse OF ITS sus-
picions. .L
Bcckv Edelson will leave the work
house to-day. but not as martyr nor
under a $500 peace bond. as she nag
MANNED. She will leave under Writ
IF habcas corpus, obtained by ner
counsel. Justus Sheffield, to have ner
present at the trials in Tarrytown.
Her lawyer had read Of her great
desire TO get out of the workhouse'
He returned from his vacation yester-
day 10 see her. 1t had been her plan
70 get released under peace bona ara
then make fiery speeches denouncing
DR.. Davis for robbng her OF her pup
licitv martyrdom by refusing 10 let the
nublic take her hunger strike seriously.
MIR. Sheffield told Of the writ Of ha-
beas corpus as means of temporary
freedom. and she decided to give up
bcr other plans. Mr. Sheffield then
consulted with Or. Davis whether she
would permit her 10 go upon service
Of writ. Under the law if the phys
zeal condition of a prisoner is such
that in the opinion Of her prison phy-
stefan she should not be permitted out
n writ calling for her appearance IN
court in another action need not be OBJ
served.
DR.. Davis talked with DR.. Ernest
Bishop, consulting physician at the
worknouse Dr.. Bishop said he thought
it would be all right for Becky TO GO
to Tarrytown this morning. Then Or.
Davis assured Mr.. Sheffield that the
writ would be honored. Becky will be
taken to Tarrytown in custody OF a
workhouse keeper and brought back as
soon as the proceedings there are over
Meanwhile Becky is still hunger
striking. Aside from eating food when
nobody is looking and also thankfully
swallowing raw eggs and sherry gwen
her by the prison doctors, she IS nun
ger striking with all her might, and
says she will keep it up.
Becky, however, demands that she be
forcibly fed. She even specifies which
OF the prison physicians shall do IT.
If DR.. Katz attempts il. she told Com
missioner Davis. she will commit sui,
eide. but il DR.. Ebling does il she VIII
f,,1l oil kp n rnt
feeding they want 10 give her.
Meanwhile she is taking the eggs
and sherry. she explained, to keep her
in good shape for hunger striking.
The "immoderate and profane" Ian
cuage used By George II. Swasey, an
English silversmith. who took a speak
ing part in an open air discussion on
religious and capitalist questions pro-
NOTED by the Harlem Educational Al
lance in Madison Square yesterday.
caused him 70 be arrested and taken
TO the Essex Market court, where Mag
istrate Nolan found him guilty. He
will pass the next sixty days in the
workhouse. Swasey is said TO have
taken a prominent part in !. W. W.
meetings and demonstrations. The
Englishman was not member Of the
Alliance, but was permitted to make
a speech.
Pending a decision on writ of ha-
beas corpus the Rev. Bouck White
yesterday enjoyed a day OF freedom
outside the walls of The Long Island
City jail, whore he was sent on May
Is for term of six months for dis
turbing worship in Calvary Baptist
Church. Fifth ay.. Manhattan
Miss Bertha Rembaugh. attorney for
White. obtained the writ. and he was
taken before Justice Maddox in the
supreme Court, Brooklyn. yesterday.
where argument was heard. II was
contended that White should not have
been convicted of disorderly conduct
because the facts presented before
Magistrate Campbell showed that he
was guilty of misdemeanor. which is
4 higher crime.
Then your client got off mighty cas-
ily." remarked Justice Maddox
Assistant District Attorney Stanley
J.. Richter. Of Whitman's Office. in NOV
ing to dismiss the writ. said it was ri
diculous for 2 man TO object because he
was convicted of lesser crime than
the one Of which he was really guilty
and be permitted TO walk the streets a
free man because the law did not reach
out far enough for him.
Justice Maddox directed counsel 10
submit briefs this morning.