New Britain herald., 1917-09-17
PEACE IN HARTFORD
 BUT NOT GOOD WILL
LoquaCiouS Widow Of 55 Leads
 AnG-War Demonstration
THEN POLICE LEAD HER

Enthusiastic "Fans" Gather at Police
 Station Today to Attend Hearing But Case Is Continued-Rude Bluecoats Stop Meeting.
 Hartford, Sept 17.-Mrs. Annie Riley Hale of New York, anti-war agitator, and Alfred E. Whitehead of Hartford, chairman of the meeting in Socialist hall at which Mrs. Hale spoke, Sunday afternoon, until stop pea py the police, are still at liberty, bound in the sum of $500 each to answer in police court when their case is called to charge of having committed breach of the peace. On motion of Acting Prosecuting Attor- ney Creedon. the case was adjourned by Judge Edwin c. Dickenson, this morning until Tuesday morning. Neither of the accused was called to the court room.
 On the police record Mrs. Annie Riley Hale is noted as a widow, 55 years of age. of New York. Alfred E. Whitehead, according to his state ment, is 26 years of age, a native of England. at present residing here.
 As Mrs. Hale left police headquar- ters where she had gone expecting to be called before the judge for trial this morning, score of her sup porters were waiting on Market street to learn how her affairs were going. Others had pressed up the sairs to see if she would be called into the court room, among them Professoor H. w. l.. Dana, who was to have spoken at the meeting after she had finished. He said he thought he would not so back to New York today as he had planned but would wait to see what turn events would take.
 Cheers and Kisses.
 Long before Chairman Whitehead opened the meeting the hall was crowded, many apparently being drawn to it by the agitation of the past week seeking to forbid it. Ere quent cheers and some misses greeted the speaker during the part of her speech that she was permitted to de- liver. When she was ordered to stop the audience made an excited rush for the platform, chairs being overturned and benches thrust aside, while
 
 the din. For a few moments the sit and federal agents working together, kept the situation we'll in hand and succeeded in clearing the hall
 As soon as this was done, Mrs. Hale and Whitehead, who had been arrested, were taken to police head quarters, where they were charged with breach of the peace and held for a hearing in $500 bonds each. As they left the hall more cheers and misses greeted them, and large crowd followed them to the police station, but there was no disturbance.
 Police action was taken after a conference between federal agents and local officers at the meeting. Later it was said that the matter had been turned over to the city authorities and it was not expected that fed eral charge would be made.
 The meeting had been announced as in commence oration of the 130th an- niversary of the drawing up of the constitution of the United States. In the course orf her address Mrs. Hale said she felt she had g. right to lad monish'' the president out of the scriptures, because she had worked for his election. Now she did not know whether to apologize for having done so or to be proud of him. One of the best things he had ever said in her opinion, was his remark about being "too proud to fight. She said. she claimed her constitutional right to criticize the president for turning away from the peace vote of the Reichstag", which she said repre- sented the German people, adding that had this government received thls vote as it should the world would now be very near peace. The presl- dent, she said, had not answered any peace proposals until there came one from that greatest off all spiritual s.utocrats m Christendom-the Pope.'
 War" she declared, "is born of cowardice and based on craven inn aginings An individual is made to kill another individual with whom he has no quarrel in a conflict brought about by the trader behind the lines It is stupid and shameful. and it is time for the world to make common cause to end this travesty. It is about time for the people to tell their rulers to stand aside and that they them selves will make the world safe for democracy Government must have rebirth."
 Champion of Germany.
 Referring to Germany she said that the kaiser was frightened of being attacked when he went into Belgium but that does not justify this country in going over to fight Germany be- cause of a belief that fifty years hence Germany may make war on this coun- try" Germany, she asserted is not trying to Gernlanize the world, and said that although Germany had JNrance absolutely beaten in 1870 yet that country has continued to live it's life and prosper.
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