Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-05
WARE MAN HELD
ON DRAFT CHARGE
u. S. Commissioner Puts
Deutsch Supporter Under
$4,000 Bail
FIFTH WARD SENSATION

Andrew IT, Rosenbaum. Of i29 Pine
street. n guard at the Independence Hall,
was held under $4,000 bail for the United
| States Court by United states Commits
sioner Long today on charge of obstruct-
| ing the recruiting and enlistment service
! of the United states by promising certain
| persons called for service that they would
| hn discharged or rejected from service II
! they supported Isaac Deutsch candidate for
! Select Council, at the coming primaries,
This ease is the first big development IN
| a rcd.hot political fight in the Fifth Ward
! between Deutsch. "a Ware supporter. and
| James A. Carey, McNichol candidate
| against him for Select Council, for political
control OF the ward.
Assistant United states District Attorney
r.. Henry Walnut asked Commissioner Long
70 continue the case until tomorrow, in
order that he could produce additional wit
nesSes, and in making the request asserted
that he believed there would be n Grand
Jury investigation of the case 1t was also
stated that men from the Department of
Justice have been in tho Fourth Exemption
District. where. it is charged. RosenOaum
made this offer To get men exempted, and
that the Grand Jury had material before
it at the present time against Il politician
lsadore Stern. state Representative and
Carey supporter. who sat with Mr.. Walnut
during the hearing today. objected to $4,000
bail when Mr.. Walnut suggested that
amount he fixed by the Commissioner. lie
also asserted:
we have hundred cases like this down
there"
referring to the bail. Commissioner Long
said it should he higher than $500. We
are holding these Socialists in $4,000 bail
for distributing literature" he said, 'and
| tn.s is IL serious charge because it also in
wolves the draft. II is not only n despicabls
! thing, but criminal thing as we'll
Tho two men on whose testimony the de-
fendant was held were Frank Brown, of
ESQ South Fourth street, and Walter Dona-
hue, of 315 South Sixth street L. Irwin
jackson. representing the defense. cross
examined them carefully, but did not call
witnesses and the defendant did not take
the stand.
Frank Brown was the first man called TO
testify. lie said when he was called for
examination by the CUnsCrption board on
August 20 Rosenbaum came TO him and
told him that If he would turn in for
Deutsch he would get him exempted. lie
said he did not hear this offer made to
others, but that Rosenbaun, went TO many
others and had confidential talks with
them. lie said he also the defendant
collect ten or twelve envelopes, in which
notices TO appear had been sent to the
men, and take these into the Office OF
Lieutenant Bennett who is charged by the
Carey faction with using the police on be-
half Of Deutsch.
was he going TO do TO you?' was asked
| by the Commissioner.
Pass u.s. was Browns positive answer,
Brown was asked If Rosenbaum Old not
. know that che and his family were for
Carey first last and all the time" and said
that Rosenbaum certainly did know.
Donahue testified virtually the same as
Brown regarding what Eosenbaum did in
the room. He was asked IL he knew what
business Rosenbaum had in the police sta
ton when men were being examined. and
said he did not know. Roth young men
said they passed the examination for ser
vice.
The affidavit on which tile warrant was
issued was sworn out by j. =. Cassel, spe-
cial agent Of the Bureau of Investigation Of
the Department of Justice, who is supposed
to be only one Of Il great many investi-
gators who have been working in the dis
trict
DEUTSClf EIDICCLES CHARGE
Following the hearing Deutsch ridlculed
the statements Of tile young men as being
political.
This is purely political frame-up." said
Deutsch. The falsity of the charge is evil
dent the face of it. 1t is apparent that
Rosenbaum would not go to one Of the
strongest Carey workers if lie wanted TO
| make followers for me through this
method"
Eosenbaum was one Of the witnesses be-
fore Magistrate Coward, Monday. when
eight young men We're held under 5000 bail
each to keep the peace after they had been
arrested on charge of corner lounging
Rosenbaum charged at this hearing that the
young men insulted him every time he
passed the D0olroom Of Harry Cohen at
sixth and Lombard streets. calling him
zone of the peutsch rats" The hearing at
which the young men We're held under bail
resolved itself int" a political tilt In which
! it was openly charged that Carey workers
were insulting every one connected with the
| Dcutsch faction.
POLITICAL "PCLL" DENIED
Norton Q. Harris. chairman of. the local
hoard, emphatiCally denied that pull
could influence the boards decision.
Il hope and feel that IL is not necessary
/ for me TO refute statements made ire
! sponsibly,' lie said. We have strlven for
| three months to. keep politics out of our
work, and have been successful in so doing
only one man, So far sS we know. ever
dared to attempt pressure, and he was a
/ mere excited boy. If / had believed that
/ political pull could get into the selection Of
men for the army would not have served
But" he continued the idea that poll
tics can control such a matter as exemp-
/ ton strikes me as nrcposterOus. Some have
| tried it. unqucstiunably. But those who
| have attempted To bring such pressure have
| made themselves marked men, whose every
| movement Is subjected to closer scrutiny
! than they would undergo had they not made
/ the attempt"
The other members Of the board are 4
| Niedelman, an optlcian, of G28 South Fifth
! street, and Dr. s. +. Levin, Of Gl9 South
Tenth street, who is the medical examiner.