The evening world., 1917-06-02
ANARCHISTS HELD
WITH STUDENTS IN
ANTEDRAFT PLOT
Five Bound Over to Grand
Jury-"Reds," Defiant, De.
nounce Government.

Two leaders in the anarchist move
ment in New York and three students
OF Columbia University were to-day
held under bail for a Federal Grand
Jury on charges Of conspirIng to vio-
late the military conscription law.
Sneering and contemptuous Of the
legal proceedings through which they
were forced TO go before United
states Commissioner Hitchcock, the
Anarchists-Louis Kramer and Nor
ris Becker-declared they were op-
posed to the existing Government Of
the United States, were against Amer
ican participation in the war and
would refuse TO obey the law for reg
istration on June 8.
What do care for the President?
He would be better off II he were
dead" Detective Sergeant James J..
Finan testified Kramer had declared
at an anti conscription meeting at
Madison Square Garden Thursday
night. It was at this meeting that
Kramer, Becker and three others were
arrested in the act of distributing
circulars urging Americans to refuse
to register.
The two Anarchists were held in
$500 bail each. an increase Of $500
over the amount fixed for their ap-
pearanco at the hearing to-day. Mrs.
Jennie Deimer OF No. 1856 Fifth Ave-
nue., Brooklyn. one OF the three others
arrested at the Madison Square Garden
meeting, was discharged upon the rec
ommendaton Of Assistant United
States Attorney H. A. Content as hav-
ing been unjustly seized. Louis Stern
berg OF No "a Rutgers Street and
Joseph Walker Of No. West Thir-
teenth Street we're held in $500 bail
for q further hearing.
Miss Eleanor Wilson Parker, owen
Cattell and Charles Francis Phillips,
the three Columbia students, we're
held In bail OF $500. The arrest OF
this trio was entirely separate from
that of Kramer and his crowd, but
Miss Parker took every opportunity
at the hearing Of fraternizing with
the Anarchist leader.
Prosecutor Content finally in
formed her attorney, A. Bertram
Samuels, that further conversations
between Miss Parker and Kramer or
any OF the other defendants would
result in her re-arrest and increa Sc
OF her bail to $4,000. Content ad-
vised Samuels to take the girl from
the room.
Winter Russell, OF counsel for the
three Columbia students, asked
that they be discharged. He quoted
| Champ Clark's ntl-conscriptior
/ speech in the House OF Representa-.
tives as more violent and antagonlstiC
TO the Government policy than IN,
pamphlet circulated by the students
These accused" said Mr.. Russell
ARE virtually children"
Moses Spiegel. a publisher, OF No
GO Cooper Square. and Special Agen
Mathews OF the Department OF Jus
tice were the Governments witnesses
Splegel testified that Phillips an,
Cattell contracted for the printing o
1000 OF the circulars in evidence
Mathews testified that Miss Parke
said she aided Phillips and Cattel
in writing the pamphlet and tha
they knew what they were doing an,
realized the possible consequences o
their act.
No more defiant a prisoner thai
Kramer has appeared in tho Fedora
Building in years. Small IN stature
with large head covered with thick
closely cropped hair, he refused to an
, swer questions on grounds Cf "indl
vidual right" He even refused t
give his age and address.
IL am an anarchist" lie testide,
u am opposed 10 all forms OF soclet
and government that are based on
upheld by force"
Are you a citizen OF tho Unite
States?"
"I am citizen OF the world
, When the question was repcatc
and a direct answer demanded, h
=, refused to give IT, Finally he state
70 he was born in Russia and came I
[ America in 1894. Contemptuously h
c declared he was against conscriptloi
p. tho law and war.
Becker preceded him on he stan
q and gave similar testimony though
a less defiant manner. The polio
:. records give their addresses as n
p EOS Second Avenue for Kramer an
- No. IS west one Hundred and scl
d enth Street for Becker, The tN
Joined in testimony tending to exor
crate Walker and Sternberg. TT
former declared that he had on,
served in the United States Army.
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