The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-07
LETTER WRITER
HINTS AT DEATH
North TarrytOwn's President
Threatened in l. w. w.
Disturbances.
ELEVEN STILL IN JAIL
Berkman, Hunting Bonds
man. Fails to Return
to Comrades.
ASK PERMIT FOR MEETING
Village Fathers Agree to Con-
slider Application, but Prob
ably Won't Grant 1t.

TARRYrowN. June 6.-Tarrytown got
rid at 10 o'clock tonight of its eleven
anarchist prisoners and went soundly to
sleep Immediately afterward, although
Pietro Allegro. one OF the livest OF Alex
ander Berkman's anarchist crowd. was In
the village, and his whereabouts were un-
certain.
Arthur Caron. Reba Edelson and the
nine others arrested last Saturday for
trying to hold a street meeting here were
taken by motor back to the White Plains
Jail after Berkman had failed to show
up with $4,000 bail for the lot.
All had been held for trial next Fri
day morning after a short session before
Justice of the Peace William Il. Moore
Mouse this morning.
Upton Sinclair came to Tarrytown to-
dsy to see II he could do something to help
the imprisoned anarchists. lie had talk
with Village President Frank X. Pierson
with the upshot that Sinclair appeared to-
night before the village trustees and urged
them to give a permit for a street meeting
here early next week.
Sinclair told the trustees that the viii
lage had made a serious mistake in ar
resting Caron and his associates before
they had said anything vicious.
THE proper course would have been
TO let them speak and then hold them re-
sponsible for anything they said" the So
cialist told the trustees. That Is the way
they did In New York with Marie CAM
They let her speak. She threatened
Rockefeler's life and was arrested--very
properly.
But II you are going to deny the RICH,
free ~, ,aph haiOra knnw VIVA 70
be said the village Is counting grave
trouble. Such an attitude, IL persisted
In. may lead very easily to rioting and
even bloodshed."
The trustees were somewhat impressed
and IL was finally agreed, at Sinclair's
suggestion. that they meet Monday night
in executive session to see IL permit Tor
d meeting cannot be arranged. The proc
ess Is swathed in red tape and appears
To involve getting the consent of all prop
erty owners in the neighborhood OF the
place where the meeting Is to be held.
Many Tarrytowners would like to let
the anarchists have their say and then
arrest them II what they said was griev-
GUS but no one here believes that the
street meeting will be held. Not only
will there be trouble getting property
owner5' consents. but IL is pretty certain
that the District Attorney. Frederick F.
Weeks. ana certain village officers will
fight the concession to a finish.
The eleven prisoners were brought over
from White Plains by motor this morn
ing. Sheriff Doyle came with them
They disembarked at the town hall sing
ing "Hallelujah, I'm Bum" and other
chants of the unemployed. The street
crowd gaped as 1t heard to the tune OF in
the Sweet By and BY" ballad abou,
long haired preachers whose reply to the
unemployed is, You'll get pie In the sky
by and by. "
Justice Moorehouse waved his hand In
q deprecatory fashion for things to pro-
coed. Immediately the District Attorney
and Justus Sheffield. counsel for the pris'
oners. fell afoul OF each other over the
question OF an adjournment. Sheifield's
sole aim was TO contrNe some way tC
get his clients before q Grand Jury the
District Attorney remarked that the time
for that had passed. Justice Moorehouse
put to the necessity Of rendering judgment
at last granted the adjournment, re-
marking,
81 try to be pleasant all the time"
story got about that anarchist sym
pathizers had given the Judge two year,
To live. The Judge was asked about 1t.
'H'm." he said. Back in 1889 they told
me that If | would go to the mountain,
and take the best of care OF myself
would be able TO live bout two years
well. I went 10 the mountains, but cam
really say took. care OF myself and In
here yet" 3" 81
The ten men were locked up in iror
cages In the brick shanty back OF the Y
NJ. c. A., that is Tarrytowns dungeon
keep. There they exchanged repartee will
the tennis players outside. while Berkmar
hurried downhlll TO get TO New Yorl
and the offices OF the Southwestern Sc
curity Company, where he was to get tn,
low ball of 5000 apiece. This was the las
seen of him in Tarrytown all day.
Israel Goldstein, Helen tHarris) of Tro,
and Marie Yuster. picketed the Jail an,
waited to bear the word of hope from
Berkman TO the Jailed. Ip the middle O
the afternoon Berkman called up got
hanger on at the town hall on the tele
phone and was laughed at for his pains
He wanted to ask II Arthur Caron an,
Becky Edelsohn would take bail leavin,
their comrades In the pen over Sunday
He wasn't allowed to communicate will
Caron.
Later Goldstein called up Berkman'
paper. Mother Earth, and was told tina
the anarchist had set out for Tarrytown
The faithful pickets waited for six NOR
incoming trains. Berkman was on nom
OF them' so at o'clock tonight they lef
for New York.
Meanwhile one OF the most energetic O
anarchist speakers had arrived In tow
and promptly dropped out OF sight
was Pletro Allegro, who once made
speech so bitter and so stirring tina
even Jane Est couldn't stand II and caIle,
on the audience TO "tsar that man down |!
Pietro gave quick smile and nod d
his friends at the railroad station an,
then slipped away. As Tarrytowners fl
general didn't know he was In their mids
(and would not have known who he wa
IL told OF his presence) there WAS nue.
speculation as to where Allegro had gon
and why.
Tho afternoon was made exciting b.
The issue of an extra OF local pape
giving news OF threats against Villagers
TO letters from Brooklyn. one to Presi
dent John Wirth OF the village OF Nort
Tarrytown, the Rockefeller home, AM
the other to Father Rudy of St. Their
esa's Church, had protested that the snar
chists were being unfairly treated. rh
letter to Mr.. Wirth was accompanied wit
q threat against his life
Becky Edelsohn and Caron, seen in iai
were In good spirits, but had nothing /
yak about New York detectiy
haunted the village all afternoon In tn
nope mat Miss Edelsohn would be free
on bail so that he might arrest her an
rake her back to New York where sh
AT present under n $500 bond to kee
'he peacs for .ix rscaths.