New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-05

The East Side is the East Side and
the West Side is the West Side, and
scioom the twain shall meet, Kipling
might have written II. But these two
social extremes foregsthered yesterday
az the birth control trial of Mrs. Mar
garet Sanger, in the Special Sessions
Court. Of Brooklyn.
American Realities in the defendants
arms, society and club women in the
front rows of seats and limousines
waiting outside made the trial take on
the color OF reception, with Mrs.
Sanger as the guest Of honor. She
looked the part. rather than that OF
lawbreaker, as she sat there, demure,
rather shy looking young woman, with
soft brown eyes and hair.
Women from six separate clubs were
represented in the courtroom, after
motoring over from the breakfast they
had rendered Mrs. Sanger at the Hotel
Vanderbilt
The other social extreme waited out
side m the corridors women of the
poorer sections for the most part, some
OF them with their babies in their arms
and others wailing of other children at
home who needed them. They were the
women to whom Mrs. Sanger had given
birth control information i'm her Amboy
street clinic. in Brownsville. and who
had been subpUnacd by the District
Attorney as witnesses yesterday.
Witnesses Angry and Hungry
Angry at having to testify against
her, distressed because they had to
leave their children at home uncared
for and because they had had TO spend
carfare, and frightened at the thought
Of appearing in court, they sat waiting
all day. Most OF them were hungry,
because there was no Kosher" food to
be obtained in the neighborhood. But
they still insisted that they believed in
birth control.
Jonas GoldStein. Mrs. Sanger's at
torney, asked that the case be post
poned. pending the ruling Of the APP
pellate Division on the appeal taken
from Supreme Court Justice Aspinalls
decision dismissing Mrs. Sanger's writ
OF habeas corpus This was denied.
lie then asked that the defendant
might have a trial by jury. and was
again denied. After that the case was
dismissed 10 wait its turn.
81 am sure OF the justice Of our
cause that's the chief thing" Mrs
Sanger said, as she waited. 81 feel
confident OF acquittal But If / am
convicted, | shall 20 on hunger strike"
Mrs. Sanger Called Heroine
81 think she's a heroine" said a
pretty, hufy-haired little woman in
brown fox furs, who had a lot Of
trouble convincing everybody that she
was the wife of scientist. n Vsssar
graduate and the mother Of two chill
dren. She was Mrs Newton Fassett,
and had come all the way from
Spokane, Washington, to give Mrs
Sanger her support at the trial
a new Committee Of One Hundred,
with Mrs. Amos Pinchot at it's head,
has been organized to give backing
30 Mrs Sanger, and 10 get before the
Legislature an amendment providing
that trained nurses and doctors may
be permitted to give out birth control
information. Its chairman repre-
scented il yesterday at the' trial, and
waited most OF the day, with the
others. for the case to be called.
The actual evidence given later in
the afternoon fell rather fat, from
the fact that the defence admits Civ
ing out birth control literature, which
was the point that the District Attor-
uey was endeavoring to establish.
Sergeant John Mooney made the only
contention not admitted by the de-
fence i'm the afternoon, when he said
that Mrs Sanger had told him that
the whole clinic was only bluff, but
that she thought she could get away
with it with the Jewish people
"She charged 10 cents for every
registration" he said
Sergeant Barry and Sergeant