The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-03
RUSSELL BOND
 FIXED AT S1O,O00 Oneonta Attorney Bound Over to Grand Jury for Violating Espionage Act

T. B. Russell of Oneonta was bound over to the grand jury by Judge Ken neth Charlton, United States comms- sicrer. following a preliminary hearing yesterday afternoon on charge of vio- lating the espionage act, and his bond was fixed at $10,O0O, which he made.
 MT. Russell is an attorney of Oneonta and was arrested several weeks ago on a charge of making seditious utterances about the government while at war and' attempting to cause disloyalty
 F. A. Hearn of Oneonta was the first witness called and he testified that the defendant had said, "Hearn, you are whipped right now, and deservedly so. We had no business getting into this war and We haven't shown Germany the re- spect that we have other countries" Tho above statement is alleged to have been made in the store of Bynum Bros, and in the presence of number of people.
 Dr. w. C Miles of Cleveland stated Mf. Russell had declared in his presence that the German form of government was more democratic than ours, as Pres
 dent Wilson has more power than the Kaiser and Wilson didn't have the sense Of a baby. When he was warned not to talk like that, the defendant is al- legged to have said, T am only express
 ing my political opinion and I'd do that even if l had to go to Jail.
 w. D. Cowden of Oneonta testified M-. Russell had made some remarks about Red Cross nurses during the recent drive.
 The next witness called was t'. D. Jcnes, special agent of the department of St who StltpJ That Mir RnSpell had said ''The draft law was unconstitutional and the United states had no right to send soldiers to France to fight" When warned he must not say those things. the defendant declared he was entitled to his own opinion.
 Paul Brasher. pastor of the Oneonta Fl iscopal church, stated lie and the de- fendant had had a number Of arguments regarding the war and the defendant had stated: We as a nation had no right in th's war.
 z. A. Bellah, postmaster at Oneonta testified that MT. Russell had stated the Red Cross business was graft. anyway, and he could prove it. ue further stated the officers of the Red Cross had grafted s70oO during the first Red Cross war fund drive. The witness stated the defendant said he had nothing to do with gettins into this war and he was not going to do anything to get out of it; and the draft was all wrong and the United States had no business going over there to fight Germany
 Mir Bellah stated he had not sold MT Russell any Thrift or War Savings Stamps. when asked this question by thv judge He further declared the defend ant had taken no part in any of the pa triotic mass meetings and he had never heard the defendant make one remark favoring the United States government. At the conclusion of the testimony by the witnesses for the government the defendant declined to introduce any tes- tiniony and Judge Charlton bound Mr. Russell over to await the action of the grand jury.
 Owing to the prominence of Mir Rus sell large crowd attended the hearing and much interest was manifested in the testimony. Ralph Quinn, assistant dis trict attorney prosecuted the case for the government, while O. D. Street of Grntersvlle represented the defendant.