New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-06
Lawyer and Mrs. Eastman
Arrested as Outcome of
Goldman Defiance.
BIRTH MEETING
CAUSES ACTION
Wife of Editor of Masses" Goes
TO Cell Before Husband Ar
rives with Bond.

Bolton Hall, wealthy lawyer and sin
gle tax advocate, and Ida Rauh, wife
of Max Eastman, were arrested yester-
day, when the police accepted the chal-
lenge made May 20 by Emma Goldman
and other sponsors of the birth con
troll movement at mass meeting in
Union Square.
That meeting planned as a protes:
against the conviction of Dr. Ben l..
Reitman--was also intended as a taunt
to District Attorney Cwann. who failed
to arrest Rose Pastor Stokes for dis
tributing birth control literature in
Carnegie Hall. Twenty plainclothes
men attended the Saturday afternoon
open air forum at Union Square. Be
cause they took notes quietly the
speakers did not notice them. Word
went out to the radicals and reformers
that the condemned circulars, entitled
"Why and How the Poor Should Not
Have Many Children" had been passed
out under the very noses of the police.
Hall Taken on Warrant.
Bolton Hall met Detectives Thomas
A. Smith and Thomas A. Price at
Forty-third Street and Madison Ave.
nue. yesterday afternoon. They showed
him a warrant issued by Chief Magis-
trate William McAdoo containing a
technical charge of violation of section
l142 of the Penal Code. which pro
hibits the distribution of Indecent lit
erature." He furnished $500 cash bail
for appearance in the Yorkville court
at 10 o'clock this morning.
When the police called at Ida Rauh's
studio, West Sixteenth Street, IN
Greenwich Village, they found the wife
of the editor of "The Masses" at work
on a statue She was taken TO the West
Twentieth Street station house, where,
after an argument, she was transferred
to a cell. Within two hours her hus-
band appeared with $500 bail. She will
be arraigned with Bolton Hall this
morning, charged with the same offence.
Ida Rauh has been Identified with
the Washington Square Players, is a
sculptor Of considerable talent, and has
been admitted to the bar, although she
has not practised law for the last few
years. -.
1--WE were looking for her arrest,
Mr. Eastman said, at the Brevoort Ho-
tel, Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street,
/ last night. "My wife and Jessie Ashley
sister of Dean Ashley, of the New York
University Law School. passed out sew
/ eral thousand birth control circulars al
/ the Union Square meeting
Eastman Writes Protest.
Mr.. Eastman said that he had writ
ten a letter TO Police Commissioner
Woods protesting against the language
used by the lieutenant at the West
Twentieth Street station in the pres
ence of Mrs. Eastman and a half dozen
patrOlmen.
81 have nothing to say--all / know IS
that ! am TO appear in court In the
morning." said Bolton Hall at ms
home. 80 East Sixty-frst Street. He is
the son of the late DR.. John Hall, pas
tor Of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
| Church.
In a letter to The Tribune recently
/ Mr.. Hall said that he was more inter
/ ested in the cause of free speech than
he was in the birth control movement.
Miss Jessie Ashley, who assisted Ida
/ Rauh in distributing the circulars, is a
lawyer with an Office at p Cedar
Street. Leonard D. Abbott, president
Of the Free Speech League, another
speaker at the mass meeting, was re-
ported to be out of town.