The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-19
.DISLOYALlSTS
ON TRIAL HERE,
HELDFORJU
Neelyville Farmer Furnishes
$1,000 Bond and Rev.
Einig $4,000.
ACCUSED OF TALKING
AGAINST GOVERNMENT
Henry Engelmeier Said Kaiser
Would Rule U. 5. better than
President Wilson.

Henry Englemeier, a farmer of
Neelyville, and Rev. FIR Charles E.
Einig, a priest of Belgique, Perry
County, were held for the federal
grand jury which. meets Oct. Ia, on a
charge of disloyalty in the prelim-
airy hearing before United States
Commissioner Russell DearmOnt, in
the U. S. court room IN the Fedora.
Building yesterday. Englemeieris
bond was fixed at $1,000 and that of
the priest at $4,000. =.
Several neighbors of Englemeier's
swore that he had said that "the Kali
ser would rule this country better
than the we had
in" or something to that effect and
other remarks of like nature. The
government witnesses were H. ].
Sneir, ]. r. hurry, ]. f. Pierce, Sam
J. Sanders, and J. P. Tidwell The
defendant had a witness, one Mark
Richardson, to impeach the evidence
of the government witnesses. The
witness was very uncertain in his tes-
timony but was of the opinion that
the witnesses for the government
were not very much for truth and
veracity. A man named Kittredge
also appeared for the defendant. Pop
lar Bluff attorneys represented En-
glemeier.
The hearing of FIR. Charles E. Einig
was held in the afternoon and con-
sumed several hours, He was repre-
scented by Chase Morsey, st. Louis
attorney, and o. A. Knehans of Cape
Girardeau. Several priests attended
the hearing, among the number being
Frs. Huber of St. Boniface church, at
Perryville, Rev. Collins of Jackson,
the priest at Claraville, Perry Coun-
ty, Rev. Walsh and Rev. Pruente of
Cape Girardeau.
Attorney P. B. Hood of Perryville,
government appeal agent for Perry
county, was present to assist Charles
P. Williams of St. Louis, special as
sistant to District Oliver, represent
ing the government.
One of the principal witnesses for
the government was J. G.. Reddick of
Perryville Mr.. Reddick has five sons
in the army, three of whom are vol
unteers and two drafted men. Mr..
Reddick testified that he swore out
the information against the priest
and sent in a list of names of those
who had heard him make remarks on
which the hearing was based. A
special agent for the government af-
forwards visited the Belgique COM
munity and interviewed those hear
ing the remarks and obtained signed
statements to that eft.
One of the remaE.;s uadc by the
priest, as testified TO by some of the
witnesses was that the more money
that was furnished the longer the war
would last, and the more boys would
be sent over and killed.
Witnesses said the trouble started
when Archbishop J. ]. Glennon sent
out letter to all priests asking them
to preach a patriotic sermon on a
certain day The Belgique priest said
the church was no place to preach on
such a subject as that, witnesses said.
Witnesses also testified that the
priest said that if this country got
whipped the Liberty bonds would not
be any good On another occasion he
said that Germany is our mother and
that it did not look right for a child
to fight its mother. There were
many remarks along this line made
by the priest, according to several
witnesses.
Several of the Belgique witnesses
suffered cold feet when they got on
tn witness stand and were attacked
", roianse of memory. One of
them 2t::-;t.a1 that he had been
talked to about tha matter. Several
Of them seemed re;u,,~7t to testify
or were not familiar with court pro-
cecdings. All of them claimed to be
Americans when questioned by the
government attorney.
One witness answered, when asked |
woh got him to sign state
ment of what he had heard the priest !
say, that he did not know what the |
name of the man was, that he said