The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-11-13
Men Fined For
DisIoyaI Talk
VIM. MUELLER AND FRED DEL
KE PAY FINES OF $500 EACH
FOR UNPATRIOTISM
TWO CASES CONTINUED
PETER ZIMMER FINED 500 FOR
TALK AGAINST LIBERTY
BOND SALE.

The men charged with dihloyalty
and indicted by the grand jury were
tried before Judge Olsen last week
with the exception of two, John Haas
of Lamberton and Carl Struckman
of Morgan. These men were both il
and their cases were continued IN
til next term of court.
William Mueller of Morgan plead
ed guilty to a charge Of uttering Sc
ditious statements and paid fine
of $4,000. Mueller, who is a resi-
dent of Morgan was charged with
having made the following statement
in the presence of ]. G. Jackson and
E. P. Grabow on or about January
3, 1918.
s'It will be a hell of long
time before we lick the Kaiser;
The United States will not be in
the war by February /, the Ger
mans will hove us all licked by !.
that time and I'll bet five to one
on it,.
1t is particularly regretable that
Mr.. Mueller has taken the attitude
expressed by these words and which
We'll hllOWH ClIlLcIlo VI CIIS CNlillIlN-
lity in which he lives states has
been expressed by his anti-war and
anti-American talk throughout the
past year. He is man o. consider
able wealth, man who came from
Germany many years ago to avoid
the militry service, he has fine
family of children who were all born
and educated in this country and one
son, we believe, holds federal posi-
! ton. Like many others in Redwood
County, Mr.. Mueller with an excel
lent opportunity to have been a lea
de-, and helper for the right cause
allowed himself to be led by the ira
ditions of his ancestors until he be-
came traitor to his adopted cou.l-
try. The fine is the least serious
part of his punishment as he will
learn when he realizes how complete
| ly he has lost the respect of the CT
tizens among whom he lives.
Fred Deike who was tried on q
similar charge of sedition was founo
guilty and fined $4,000 and sentenc-
ed to sixty days in Jail, the jail sen
tence being suspended on conditions
O good behavior and of Mr.. Deike
Immediately resig.lilg from any pub
lie office he holds.
Mr.. Deike's seditious statement
was made after his return from g
visit to one of the training camps
and was made il the presence OF
Leon and Emer Lighfoot July Il. He
was found guilty of having said,: .
"The soldiers at Camp Grant
do not have anything fit to eat;
they do not have white bread
but all black bread that isn't fit
for dog 20 eat; that they have
beans that are hard and soured
that all other camps are the same
way; that the reports that we get
in the American papers as to
the war are not true; that he
himself has a paper printed in
| Wisconsin that has the news right.
from the front over a wireless
that every time 10000 German
soldiers are killed $4,000 Am
erican soldiers are killed, that
the German Lutherans have, con-
troll of the wireless reports"
Mr.. Deike has been a resident O.
RSuWOOu SOuuIy IOI UndIy years dIl(
a citizen of the United States Ions
enough to have been thoroughly aw
are of how utterly false such state
ment was and how particularly mis-
chievous it might become in wa
time.
A third seditionist was Peter Tim
mer of Vesta who pleaded guilty t,
"a charge of having made unpatrio. il
statements when solicited during tn,
Fourth Bond sale. Mr. thinner wa
fined $1,000 and also bought hi
quota or bonds. Hell made the follow
ing statement to the bond solicitors
"Boys there is no use to talk
about bonds because this is no
Liberty Bond at all. The gov
erlment does NOS want this mo-
1ey' and no track has been kept
of the money subscribed to the
} Liberty Bonds"
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