New Britain herald., 1916-06-06
BIRTH CONTROL GETS
 LAWYER INTO COURT
Editors Wife Also Arrested for Distributing Prescribed Literature

1 New York, June 6-Bolton Hall, an
 attorney at 29 Broadway, and Mrs. ! Ida Rauh Eastman are under arrest
 on charges of distributing pamphlets on birth control at 8 public meeting at Union Square on May 20. The ] charge is a misdemeanor. MT. Hall 1 was arraigned in the Yorkville court i and released on bail for examination. 1 Mrs. Eastman was arrested in the 1 office of her husband, editor of The l Masses, weekly paper, at West | Sixteenth street. She was not taken 1 to court but was released in $500 bail 1 for examination in the Yorkville court.
 The warrants on which the arrests were made were issued by Chief Magistrate McAdoo at the request of police officials, who had received re- ports from the detectives assigned to attend the Union Square meeting. Several other prominent men and
 women who took part in the meeting and in the distribution of the printed
 matter will either be summoned to
 court or arrested on similar charges. Chief Magistrate McAdoo said last night that the names of those at the meeting were called to his attention last week, when application for sev- eral warrants was made by the police.
 District Attorney Swann did not ap- pear in the case, the chief magistrate said.
 Among the men and women men toned as being at the meeting were Leonard D. Abbott, Bolton Hall MISS
 Jessie Ashley, Miss Ida Rauh East-
 man, and Mrs. John Sloan. Emma
 Goldman, who had finished sentence
 of fifteen days in the workhouse for
 featuring on birth control was also
 active at the meeting.
 It was announced at the meeting
 that. as District Attorney Swann had
 said he would not prosecute persons
 who distributed birth control infor-
 nation at properly regulated meet
 ings, arrangements would be made
 for opening a headquarters for the
 distribution of this information. Miss
 Goldman at that time said @ com
 mittee of 100 had offered their ser
 vices and would work in relays, so
 that if some of the members of the
 committee were arrested others
 could continue the work.
 Before this meeting took place 1t
 charged that discrimination seemed to exist in the prosecution of those advocating birth control. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, who had requested her name to be placed on the program of speakers, said Miss Goldman had not been prosecuted for giving out sim liar printed matter at a dinner in the Hotel Brevort and subsequently, at Carnegie hall.
 Mrs. Eastman, accompanied by her husband, was taken to the West twentieth street station. where East man potested when Lieutenant Ivoy asked for s1.000, as it was then after court hours. Policeman Schilling, who made the arrest, finally took Mrs. Eastman to the West thrtieth street l station, where bail in $500 was ac- cepted. A surety company signed the 1 bond. The warrant mentioned the | defendant as 'Ida Rauh."
 After the bond had been disposed | of Eastman wrote a letter to Police Commissioner Woods, it was said, complaining of the treatment accord ed his wife by her arrest Mrs. Eastman, who is a sculptor, was one of the organizers of the company of Square, but now have home at Croton-on-H Hudson.
 Bolton Hall is well known for his advocacy of returning the land to the people, his activity in various so- ciaI reforms, and his work in promot- ing the vacant lot gardens for the un- emplOved He is a university exten- sion lecturer, and the author of seV- eral books. He was born in Dublin in 1854 and went to school there. He was also a graduate at Princeton university in 1875 and received a de- gree from Columbia university in