Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-21
Treason Witness
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Sbert, relative to the authorship OF
4 certain articles in the Tageblatt ana
sountagblatt which Is the Sunday issue
y OF the Tagebatt.
Herbert had identified various copies
of the papers in which the alleged overt
/. acts were alleged to have been commit
2 ted by the defendants. He testified that
he ss a reporter covered the carvings
q <on Of German societies--their meetings,
( balls and SO forth"
The witness said Werner wrote edi.
toriaIs, while Darkow clipped papers
4 and translated the stories into German
Z and wrote war and foreign news. lie
testified that sometimes Werner and
4 sometimes Darkow wrote the headlines
that ran all the way across the top of
Fthe front page" Captions to stories, he
said, were written by the men writing
the stories He said the papers were
tnot furnished with news of any of the
press associations or bureaus and had
no Washington correspondent.
W. Government Held Down
4 Assistant United States District At
ttorney Ernest Harvey then tried to have
the witness testify as TO the authorship
OF the articles appearing in the various
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c,s,,,.,, ane;soa ,ta, ,t,o ,,,i,nass oo,,,1
4 1.s'.'am -, 80. -. ..rn., a.. 20 ,yh.shs,.
he knew of the authorship. The wit
4 ness answered no"
There then followed struggle on the
part Of United States District Attorney
naue shu tni "a Wy " .,' ~, ~
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sn's ques'ioh' nc, NJ o,i ,Il,.. '''"e
ne nao no posl'Ne hnoM,s ,,t ,,..
& N"ne was - ,,,o wy on,,.io,, op ~.
w'tness nau a.. II, ~. ena' a.
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we're sus.a'neu ny sne -, w pVH'-
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S~h.n NJ IJerbsr, identified cor,,,ctions
- handwriting on several sheets of
e .s,a.,,,,, ,anar JIa said they ,vare made
Nv DarIrow and Werner. These sheets
Ma wasted unon them clippines from
csher German napers TO which were
reade addenda or changes
Mr Kane Indicated yesterday in his
<sadress IN the Jury that these sheets
sre the most important evidence to be
D Introduced II is contended that Correc.
ttons and changes were made e., make
SJsnatches from abroad friendly to the
Z German cause and obstructive to that
~ the United states.
william Ferguson. a weigher at the
pbuadeIphia Po1toffice, testified as to
4 .ss,ghinq bundles Cf Tageblatts on cer-
tain dates complained of. Robert Kim
V c.id a letter carrier from Station j,
Nineteenth street and Fairmount ave-
nue. testified that Werner has lived at
: x9l8 Cambridge street for the last seven
f~sars He told of delivering mail TO
- ,ia f.n,iI,,
werner anu ne i,,n ,o,.o .,o
John b. Mcaii,ster' letter caLFie,
from the west am s'a,ion' 'es,'',eu ~
Ne delivered man 10 Dirhow anu MS
mmiiy at oi4o 5enersol street rom
sAugust. 1912 NO FEBRUARY. l'i' :; Nter
sfhAt McAilister rou'e "as shanseu,
On cross-eSarniiiation Ml. "lay Se asheu
the witness as 10 Darho" reputa.iol'
among the neighpors' put an opJectioh
was sustained
W Weighers OF mail stationed in the
Postoffice Building testified today that
between April and September 10, 1917,
they handled copies Of the philsdeiphia
Ia geblatt which had been mailed to out
ef-town subscribers. During that time
state of war already existed between
this country and Germany.
" l.. Bonner mail weigher, testi-
s ned that he had weighed copies OF the
e philadelphia Tageblatt which were
meant for out-of-town distribution. One
81 the dates on which he weighed copies
Of the German language newspaper was
August 6. 1917. II was on that d ~
that the Tageblatt published a dispatch
which was headed in German as follows
Professor Jenny Does Not Take the
f. YANKEE BLUFF
American Preparati tions for War
Seriously
Ambassador Page Assures England
That We Whl SEND zen
r,. covernmant .rtp" viii % contend that
xs,t ts,.na,ob ,yas ona NJ the many fax,
sSa.sstcrss which were "n,anufactured'
xnr sns sd,tors An their of3ces
& ~ o,hsr COMES nf The Philadelphja Tage
sb,stt containing LEGGED seditious articles
Member Z, 1917. On that date Two
1tae paragraph appeared IN that news
Il 1eper in which President wilson wa