The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-14
BOUCK WHITE GETS
6 MONTHS SENTENCE
Socialist Minister and I. W. w.
Follower Must 10 to
the WOrkhOuse.
APPEAL Is TO BE TAKEN
Magistrate Declares Pastor Is
Less Entitled to Leniency
Than Tannenbaum.
APPEAL Is TO BE TAKEN

MaGlstrate CampbelI sentenced BouCk
White yesterday afternoon to six months
In the workhouse for trying to speak last
Sunday during the services in Calvary
Baptist Church, where John d. Rockefeller
worships.
Tho pastor of tho Church Of the Social
Revolution took the sentence with cheer
fulness, announced that he would appeal
at once, said that his church would 60 on
In any case and added that under like
conditions his people might repeat the
"neighborly visit that caused riot in
Calvary Church.
|. In sentencing White tho Magistrate
compared his case with that OF Frank
Tannenbawn. TO Whites disadvantage,
saying:
"A case In many respects similar was
recently decided against an agitator not
as dangerous to the community as this
defendant and ne was sentenced to the
penitentiary for a period OF one year and
to pay a fine OF $500. He was an alien
and Ignorant this defendant is a native
and highly educated. Instead OF comm
into this court in a spirit OF humility and
acknowledging his wrong he Is defiant and
attempts TO Justify his actions by talking
foolishly and egotistically about the right
of free speech
Conduct Called Incomprc h e N BILE.
"As n university graduate and an or
dained minister of the gospel his actions
and conduct. all things considered, are
simply incomprehensible. STILL IN lay juds-
ment, he should not be sent to the
psychopathic ward at Bellevue for OBJ
seryation. He knew perfectly
well that he and his followers would not
be welcomed by the pastor and the con
gregation of the Calvary Baptist Church.
lie Of all men should have been the last
TO profane the house OF worship and TO
use IL as means OF advertising himself
and his views"
The probation officers report on White
showed him to be a graduate OF Harvard.
go and Union Theological Seminary. o.
He was first pastor OF a church at Clay
ton, y. Y. and then at Thousand Islands
from 1903 to 1907. lie became assistant
pastor OF tho Lewis Avenue Congrega-
tional Church. Brooklyn, but left there
in 1905 to go TO Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church, Brooklyn, as assistant to the
Rev J. Howard Melish In the social work
OF the parish. MIR. Melish let him go be-
cause he insisted on preaching socialism
White was arrested about year ago be-
cause when "A policeman tried to stop his
speech to garment strikers lie called the
policeman "a scab"
Miss Martha Rembaugh. Whites lawyer.
said last night that she would go at once
to the Supreme Court and ask for writ
OF habeas corpus. This IL preliminary TO
an appeal, but on just what point has not
yet been decided. White will he taken
over to Blackwells Island this morning.
The seven besides White convicted of
making Il ,uble at the church Jared much
better, with Il single exception.
Milo II. Woolman. whose record showed
that he was in St. Alphonsus's Roman
Catholic Church the night Frank Tannen-
baum was arrested, was sentenced to six
L. hA la
only prisoner shown to b: In touch with
the I. w. w
His wife. Mary wooman. was put on
probation for six months. SO were Dom
aid Croker. Robert Loan. Edward A
Ames and Charles G. Morrison. Emman-
uel Lopez who was beaten outside the
church for shouting ''murderers, got ten
days in the worknouse.
Mias Rembnugh's Com ment.
while do not want TO appear 10 cr.ti-
else the court II seems to me that the SEN
tence inflicted on my client, Mr.. White.
was unnecessarily severe" said Miss Rem
baugh. In the West Side prison White
said
This has seemed 20 me traves:y or
Justice. We are going to appeal because
We want this case tried-really tried,
THAT'S the main reason. l went INTO
this fully realizing the danger OF being
misunderstood. but relying on the courte-
Gus explanatory letter sent 10 DIR. Woeif-
kin. l wouldn't have gone to that church
without sending that letter. wouldn
have felt justified in lifting my voice had
| IL not been sent. Our whole case rests on
| that.
II am sorry that Or. WoelfkIn and
others have prejudged me- That others
do not take their view l have two fresh
! instances 10 show.
III Magistrate Campbell and those back
| Of him think that this sentence Will be 4
| camper on our Church OF the Revolution
| they will fnd themselves mistaken. The
church will go vigorously forward. \
committee has already been agreed upon
| to act in my absence. The workhouse has
no terrors for me, I shall learn more
about life there
Part OF the membership Of Whites
| church thinks he made n mistake in try
ing TO appeal TO DR.. Woelfk!n as lie aid
Frank L. Sheldon. next IN authority 70
| White said yesterday
Il felt from the first. and SO did Others
| In our congregation. that our pastor ought
not TO go to Calvary Church and attemp,
TO speak. II was purely a question of the
best tactics"