New Britain herald., 1917-05-22
.MUNITIoN PLl)1TERS
 GIVEN YEAR EACH
Four Others Will Be Tried Again
 in the Fall

Won Rintelen, David Lamar and H. B.
 Martin, who were found guilty on Sum-
 day night of violating the Sherman
 Anti-Trust law in an attempt to pre- vent the shipment of munitions abroad, wore yesterday ssntenced to one years Imprisonment eaoh by Judge Cushman in the Federal Dds- trict court. The judge directed that Lamar and Martin be confined in tho Mercer county (New Jersey) peniten- tiary, and that Rintelen be held there Tor in such other place as the attor- ney general may designate" This qualification of the Germans sentence left the attorney general free, if he should so decree. to grant Rintelen's request that he be incarcerated in military prison. Tho sentence imposed on each man is the maximum allowed by law so far as Imprisonment is con- cerned, but the court could also have fined each prisoner $5,O0O.
 Before sentence was passed upon Lamar his attorney. Michael Martin Dolphin, announced that on Saturday night he obtained writ of habeas corpus from Supreme Court Justice Ford directing the government au- thorities to appear in the supreme court before Justice Blur at II o'clock this morning to answer La mar's charge that he had been ''kid- mapped" from the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, where he WAS serving a term for impersonating a congress man. and brought to New York H. legally for trial just ended. Lamar sought to have the verdict against him set aside by Judge Cushman on this 1 ground, but his motion was denied.
 Rintelen yesterday gave out state ment in which he charged that the itself was to blame for his 1 not taking the witness stand and tel ling all he knew Nof the activities of Labor's National Peace Council. The statement. as written by Rintelen, read:
 The government offlcials have to l blame themselves If more light has l not been brought into the activities ! of Captain Rintelen in reference to Labor's National Peace Council. In | MT. Massey's presence 1t was stated ! to Captain Rintelen by one represent | ative of the government that If he 1 would be prepared to go on the stand l there should beIa gentlemen's agree ment that no questions would be put 1 to the captain in regard to other ac- tivities of his during the summer of l 1915. Suddenly (mmediately before Captain Rinte1en was to take the stand) other government officials de- clared themselves not bound by this gentleman'ss agrGAsient and stl1cesl Captain Rnitelens cannot be expected to explain under oath matters that might have political bearing-now Yri corrnanx- are unfortunately at war-Captain l Rintelen Twill not again expose him. { self to such chaotic kind of handling l of affairs by government officials. Ho l definitely decided not ot go on the stand, much as he would wish to help l the cause of his own government thereby
 No Agreement With Rintelen.
 Special Assistant District Attorney Raymond H. Sarfaty was the govern ment representative who talked with Rintelen before the trial but he em- phatically denied that he had entered into any "gentlemen's agreement" with the prisoner. Other government officials denied knowledge of any such Arrangement.
 Assistant District Attorney John c. Knox announced in court yesterday that Rintelen would be tried soon.
 probably in June on two indictments
 pending against him. one for conspir-
 acy and the other for perjury. MT.
 Knox did not specify what these in-
 dictments charged but it was said in
 the federal building that they were
 based upon Rintelen's activities in
 fraudulently obtaining 8 passport by
 which he tried to get from this coun-
 try into Germany.
 Ex-Judge Isaac R. Oeland, one of
 the government attorneys who pros-
 ecuted the case against the seven de-