The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-15
RAYMOND ROBINS In
BOLSHEYIST CASE
Former Progressive Leader
Gets Writ to Appear for
Molly Stimer, 10.
ACTION BY U. s. MARSHAL
George w. Wickersham Facili-
tates Service Of Paper
on the Chicagoan.

United States Marshal Thomas D..
Mccarthy rang the bell OF an apartment
on the fourth floor Of 40 Fifth avenue
late yesterday afternoon. Behind him
squad OF deputy marshals waited for
orders to break down a door which had
barred since Saturday the service of a
subpoena upon Raymond Robins. chair
man Of the Progressive National Con-
yention of 1915.
The door opened unexpectedly and
George w. wickersham, former Attor-
ney-General of the United States. APP
peared. He invited the Marshal inside
and introduced him to Mr.. Robins. who
was served with a writ of attachment
ordering his seizure and presentation in
court forthwith.
Mr. wickersham promised that Mr..
Robins would appear In court to-day to
tell what he knows OF the papers OBJ
tanned by Edgar G. Sisson In Russia
which indicated that the Bolsheviki were
the tools Of Germany. The Marshal
called Francis G. Caffey, United States
Attorney. on the telephone and was au-
thorized not to arrest Mr.. Robins.
Wanted as q witness.
The former Progressive leader was
subppnaed as a witness for Molly
Stimer. an eighteen-year-ol leader Of
the New York Bolsheviki, and five men
who are on trial in the Federal District
Court before Judge Henry d. Clayton
charged with conspiring TO violate the
espionage law. The group was arrested
at and near its headquarters at East
104th street on August 20 after a parade
OF Bolsheviki which began on the lower
East Side and ended in a riot at Lex
ington avenue and 1l1th street. Pamph-
let's in Yiddish and English attacking
President Wilson and the Governments
policy toward Russia, which had been
circulated in quantity on the East Side,
were found on the defendants.
Harry Weinberger. counsel for the de-
fence, subppnaed Mr.. Robins as wit
ness for the defence. Herbert Cohen.
clerk in Weinberger's office, was sent to
the apartment at 43 Fifth avenue. where
Mr.. Robins. whose home is in Chicago,
has been staying with his sister-in-law.
Miss Mary Z. Dreier. a social worker
and former member OF Senator Wagners
factory investigating commission.
Cohen camped outside Of Miss Dreier's
apartment all day Saturday He re-
ported to Weinberger that Mr.. Robins
was in the apartment. but refused to
come to the door. Weinberger applied
yesterday to Judge Clayton for writ OF
attachment. The court signed the writ
and gave It to Marshal Mccarthy.
Mr.. Robins refused to see newspaper
reporters and Miss Dreier said that
neither he nor she had anything to say.
Explanation by Lawyer.
Mr.. weinberger explained that Mr..
T...l
Commission to Russia. which was In
Petrograd when Sisson was obtaining
documents tending 10 prove that Trotzky
and Ienine directed the Bolshevist move
ment In aid OF Germany. He said that
after Mr.. Rohins returned TO America
he was quoted in newspapers In way
that gave the impression that he could
tell much about the Slsson exposure II
he would
The lawyer added that he would make
the Sisson papers an Issue in the trial
and prove them to be spurious. He said
that his efforts to discredit them would
be part OF an attempt to prove that a
Rolshevist L. not necessarily pro-Ger-
man.
Mr.. weinberger said that he had
written to George Creel. chairman of
the Committee on Public Information,
who gave out the Sisson papers. and re-
quested him to appear as a witness with
out being subp9naed, The lawyer an
nounced that he would also call on Sec
rotary Baker 70 testify.
With the courtroom we'll guarded by
deputy marshals. agents OF the Depart
ment Of Justice and the Military lntelli-
gence Bureau. the taking of testimony
at the trial of Molly St!mer and her as
eociates began yesterday. All OF the
defendants are Russians who have been
only few years in this country, The
Stimer girl is rather pretty. The men
are understood and are of the familiar
alien Socialist agitator type. Tho trial
will be continued to-day.