The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-27
WOLF OF WALL
ST. SAYS GOVT
KIDNAPPED HIM
Brought From Federal Prison
j. To Be Tried With Spy.
Two of Seven Americans on
Trial Are Ex-COngressmen.
MASTER SPY, KAISER'S FRIEND
"COunt Max" in Fantastic
Scheme to Overthrow U. 5.
Then He Intended to Lead an
Invasion of Canada.
Brought From Federal Prison
. To Be Tried With Spy.
Two of Seven Americans on
. Trial Are Ex-COngressmen.
MASTER spy, KAISER'S FRIEND
"COunt Max" in Fantastic
Scheme to Overthrow L. ;.
Then He Intended to Lead an
90. Invasion of Canada.

New York, April 27.-The alleged
impossibility of holding in war time
a fair trial in which both Americans
and alien enemies are Joined as de-
fendants charged with seeking to aid
the cause of Germany was ineffectu-
ally advanced today by counsel as
reason for delaying the federal trlal
of Franz Won Rintelen and seven otn-
ers accused of conspiring TO GRIPPE
The manufacture and export of NUM-
"tfons for the entente allies Judge
'C'ushman overruled this objection, as
he did also a plea by the American
.defendants that "as loyal American
.citizens' they should not be torced TO
stand trial with an alien enemy.
e.. .Tbc WoIr's" Plea Disregarded.
Charging that he had been pracu-
..calIy kidnapped from state federal
prison and removed to New York by
force, David Lamar delayed the trlal-
Imm ediately after Judge CushnaI
called the case, Lamar strobe forward
and cried: :.
. .If the court please. My name IS
David Lamar If it appears that !!
was practically kidnapped here, VIII
this court claim to have Jurlsdlcton
over me? l was removed from At
lanta prison by force and brought mere
against my will. 1 object to further
proceedings
/ The court room was guarded by a
squad of secret service men. Lamar,
who is now serving a sentence for I'M
.personating federal official, an
'nounced he would refuse to stand trial
until he had been taken before the
Judge who issued the habeas corpus
writ for his transfer here.
q Attorneys for the other defendants
also offered various objections but
were overruled and selection of a jury
was started.
He Was Chum of Prince Henry.
New York. April 27.-Seven Ameri-
cans, including two former congress-
men, sa* with Capt. Franz Won Rim
felen of the imperial Germany navy.
alleged master spy, in federal court
today for trial on charges of conspirinS
with him to start strikes in this coun-
try's munition plants
Won Rintelen. known as friend of
the kaiser and chum of Prince Henry
of Prussia was determined to stand
BY his plea that he had a right to act
as he did against munitions plants
which were making shells for the
enemies of his country.
Americans Want Delay.
g. The Americans were prepared to de-
mand a delay in their trials, on the
ground that public sentiment now is
inflamed against Germany and Ger
man agents. The Americans were
Frank Buchanan, Chicago, former Hi
nois congressman; H Robert Fowler.
Monnett, former attorney general of
Ohio; David Lamar, known the
"wolf of Wall street." Henry B. Mar
tin. once member of the Antitrust
league of Washington; Herman Schll-
tets and Jacob c. Taylor.
They are former officials of Labor
National Peace Council. The techni-
cal charge against all these men is
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law, but the government will seek to
prove they fomented munitions and
ship yard strikes in violation of Amer
lean neutrality.
Won Rintelen is alleged to have
been the man with the money sup
piled originally by Germany
Operated Thru Labor Peace Council
The men are said to have operated
thru the medium of Labors National
Peace Council whose headquarters
were in Washington and whose os-
tenslble purpose -7as pacifist propa-
ganda
When Max Lyndar also known as
count Lynar-LOuden. applied for
release on parole yesterday from the
prison where he is serving = sentence
for bigamy, representative of the
department of justice opposed the ap-
Plication Judge Rosalsky in an.
nouncing that ne would refuse the an.
nlication said he had been told that
Iyndar made arrangements to seize
the president of the United States
hold him for a hostage and organize
an army for an invasion of Canada
At the end of his prison terms here
Lyndar VIII be taken to Newburgh
gerry.