The sun., 1917-06-03
Authorities There Make Ac-
cusatiol As.io.ainst Charles
Kronenberg, Socialist.
THREE ARRESTED HERE
Columbia Students Held in
$500 Bail-Four Other
Prisoners Arraigned.

bon plotters in the East to be charged
With treason Is Charles Kronenbere. q
Socialist, OF 4Si Central avenue. jersey
CITY. He was arrested In Monticello
avenue there on Thursday while dls-
,ributing handbilis asking men TO ignore
next Tuesdays registration on the
sround that the draft was unconstitu.
uonal.
Yesterday Judge Leo sullivan in the
First Criminal Court, Jersey City. held
the prisoner for the Federal authorities
On the accusation that ne did TREASON.
ABLY obstruct or attempted to obstruct the
speraticn OF the law concerning the reg
ttration Of males between the ages or Il
| and 81 by distributing literature ca1cu-
lated to arouse antagonism and opposi-
ton to the laws OF the United states,
thus giving aid and comfort to the en-
| enies Of the United States"
There were two arrests in Paterson
Yesterday. Six members OF the Fed
Grated Union for Democracy also were
arrested when they attempted to speak
seainst registration and conscription In
| Cuitenburg. n. J.. last night, and pa
trclmen and National Guardsmen ar
rested two women and one man In New
York city.
Police Act Quickly.
The meeting in Guttenburg was not
permitted to get started by the police
patfbmsn seizing the first speaker.
Anthony Nodak of sac Seventh street.
and dragging him down from the plat
form when he tried to talk against
compulsory military service. Five other
Speakers then tried to talk. but they
were arrested. They gave their names
as Abraham Rubin OF 1857 Third ave-
nue., Alfred Levitt OF 50 East 103d
street Alexander Schwartzfeld of III
West liJth street. Robinson Vernon OF
i.S East Twelfth street. all Of New York.
snd Ernest Meyer OF 457 West street,
Hoboken. They were held In $500 bail
each for appearance before Recorder
Bschotf In Guttenburg next Tuesday.
TIE arrests in New York involved the
distribution of anti-conscription litera-
ture Of the sort prepared by Emma
Goldman and other anarchists. Martha
Gruning "a. and Rose Spaniar. %, both
Of los Leroy street. were arrested In
Madison Square by Fatrolman Edward
NcAvoy yesterday Afternoon upon COM
plalnt Of Louis Horowits, . salesman
Of 1904 Marmion avenue, The Bronx.
who said they had tried to hand him
zone OF the literature. They were ar
ngned In the women's night court last
night, and being unable to furnish ball
we're locked up in the East Twenty
second street police station
Alexis Sartorious. 10. of 81 Hughes
tlreet, Brooklyn, was arrested late last
aight on complaint of Private John Cas-
sidy OF the Twelfth National Guard
pevitpxDt tflh tho r,n1tca that
sartorious was standing in front Of the
recruiting station at So West l25th
rreet handing out anti-conscription
literature He was discharged In night
court for lack of evidence, but was i'm
mediately rearreeted on a charge OF dis
orderly conduct.
The three Columbia students arrested
Thursday we're held by Commissioner
Hitchcock In the New York Federal
Building in sl,50o bail for the Grand
Jury, The four men arrested In Madisoa
Square Garden Thursday night were also
held. The woman taken at the same
time, Mrs, Jennie Dierner, was dis.
charged on the recommendation OF As
,stant United States Attorney Content.
Who said there was considerable doubt
her having intended to break the law.
Antis Mass MeetiaG.
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk-
nan say there has been no change In the
programme for the mass meeting' OF
the No-Conscription League. which Is
to he held in Hunts Point Palace
Monday evening Miss Goldman's paper
1other Earth. and Berkman's paper. the
S'dst, were issued yesterday. Both oi
them avoid saying In SO many worda
Refuse TO register" but they skate AL
around this phrase. Berkman says. foi
Example, THE consistent objector to
human slaughter will neither register mol
De conscrlpted"
Mother Earth In an article signed by
baxe Commins asks why there should b<
no militant objection" to registration
says registration is the first step ovel
he precipice into the bottomless pit ol
eoascription" and advises, do what youl
conscience dictates on June and there
after"
Eleanor Wilson Parker. the Barnart
college senior charged with conepirint
WIN owen Cattell and Charles f. Phil
UPS, Columbia students. was accom-
panied by her mother and her aunt. Mrs
Mary Wood, when the three young re
Ermers were examined before Commis
"oner Hitchcock yesterday morning.
one OF their lawyers quoted from thu
argument Of Speaker Champ Clark II
ms opposition 10 the conscription bill II
u.y'ng to Justify his clients In preparing
Tor publication a pamphlet urging col
iege students not to register next Tues
gay The Commissioner ruled that tn
epeaker's Views expressed. before the bill
Eas passta had no bearing on Its en-
'orcenent after passage.
for thu Government, Mr.. Content sal
.nat the action Of the three students wa
unreasonable, seditious and rotten" .
Wen as wIlful and deliberate. Nose
spegel, president OF the Graphic Presi
" Cooper Square. testified that the thre
eefendan,s gave orders for 1000 pamph
Nu on May l6. depositing $40, on &C
count and that the manuscript and prod
May "a.
Appeal for Prisoners.
William b. Matthews OF the Depart
ment OF Justice testified that Miss Pal
xsr, at her home on May 2s.. Adnitte
wa, she helped to prepare and eign IN
manuscript cattell and Phillips mad
me same acknowledgment. the witnea
sah' and told him they had known whs
sh' he' were doing and were willing TO tai
'ne consequences.
IN behalf Of the prisonsrs Wsre ise1
uoned their youth ana thA strejudice
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