Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-26
YEAR IN JAIL FOR TWO
REGISTRATION SLACKERS
Dramatic Incidents Mark Trial,
of Men Who Refused to
Register

Steven Stanley, twenty.nine years ola :.
127 West Allegheny avenue, sef.,,,,..
revolutionary Socialist" and Frank ot,o
thirty years old, of 1924 Tackawanna s,r...
were sentenced in the United State, ma.
trlct Court today to one year each IN a..
Bucks County Jail in Doylestown for fauu.
to register.
Two dramatic incidents marked IN. ,,,.,
Of Stanley, who r. the first Stacker - ~
convicted after pleading not guilty TO N.
charge Of evading Uncle Sans Registrars.
law in Philadelphia
one was the collapse Of Mrs Ida cI,,u
with whom Stanley boarded, under a ssv.,'
grilling by Henry ]. Nelson, Stanley, a.,
torney, after she had identified star,,r
under cross-examination by Assistant pI..
trict Attorney Henry T. Walnut. ana a..
other was the identification in a storr, ~, =,
tears Of the prisoner by his mother M.
Margaret Stanley.
Both Of the cases were heard by Judr.
Thompson. e'
After Stanley had been identified nj, a..
seemed to depend on a question that wss
put to him in the Office of United sts,..
District Attorney Francis Fisher Kss.
y.
to the PostoGlce Building 'A
In the cross-examination of the Govspc.
ments witnesses, Attorney Nelson saar..s
to indicate that the defense OF stsnIs'
would be one of mistaken Identity. but mi.
theory was knocked fiat when Mrs, stanis.
Identified the defendant as her son. II was
difficult to see upon what theory Stani.s
expected TO overcome the charges for ~.
only other testimony he gave was a dental
that he had stated TO Mr.. Kane IN the J.,,
ters office that the reason he didn't registsr
was because he was a revolutionary Social.
list. Stanley's version Of the conversatIou
was that Mr. Kane had asked him II he val
Socialist, and supplementing his adnlssos
that he was, added, II am revolutionary
Socialist"
At the hearing today Frank Garbarlno
and Joseph McDevitt testified at the ,ma
Stanley was brought to the Federal ofscs
the following questions was put to him bv
United States District Attorney Kane:
why didn't you register?"
Because l am revolutionary Socialist
and ! stand for the overthrowing of tha
capitalistic system of production" is tba
answer Garbarino testified that STANLEY
gave.
On the stand today the Stacker aEr..6
that this was his answer, but that Il was
to the question, Are you a socialst?"
In cross-eXamination District Attorney
'N'''io N''SAi oSheu now ne StOOQ'
the laws of the United States Government
Stanley refused to answer
The jury was out exactly ten minutes,
when 1t returned with a verdict Of guilty
District Attorney Kane drew particular
attention to the fact that this was the first
case of its sort to be heard in PhiladelphIa.
John r. Clemenger, of Media who re-
FUSED to comply with the military registrs.
ton laws, was found guilty by Jury in
the United States District Court today.
Judge Thompson announced that he would
not sentence the prisoner until he had been
examined by alienists, and sent him 10
Doylestown for observation.
Frank Otto. the other Stacker, pleaded
guilty TO the charge. Conscientious OBJ.
Jections were given as the cause of his
failure to register. Judge Thompson told
Otto that his objections had no weight
whatever in the present situation
In imposing sentence on the men the
Judge included in his order that they shan
be duly registered after they have finished
their sentences