Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-12-19
COVE ERNMENT ENDS
CASE IN TRIAL Of.
SOCIALIST LEADERS
DEFENSE BEGINS Bl CALLING
ADOIPH GERMEE TO
STAND
.LANDIS 0VERRliES MOTION
Judge Refuses to ] .iniss jury and
Discharge Dcfo nnts -- Re
serves Decision ADOut Ia
Guiding TC7 ,lmonl

CHICAGO. Dec The govern
ment closed It's case today iu The trial
OF Songressman-eleci Victor L. Ber-
ger Of Milwaukee ald four other
Socialist leaders chs ged with con-
spiracy 10 violate a., espionage law
After Judge Lands 1yerruied "A mo-
tlon 20 take the cas- from the jury
and discharge the defendants. the
Socialists began theii case by calling
Adolph Germer. secretary OF the Ma
tional party. one o. he defendants,
as the first witness
Counsel for the ense asked TO
have certain COVER ment testimony
bearing on the quest of conspiracy
excluded from the record Judge
lands reserved his ecision
Germer did not s. much further
than giving his early nersonal history
before court adjourn o
lie said he was b. IN East Prus-
STA, Germany. SO yea ago and was
brought 70 this courry by bis par
ents In December. iNSS la 1912
he was a delegate 90 he World Con-
ference OF Miners hol at Amsterdam.
Germer said he bee me Socialist
n 1909 by joining n Socialist Dem-
ocratic party.
Elected General Secretary.
He was elected 3 neral secretary
of the national Sor alisi party IN
1916. lie described the details OF
the partys organic lions at length
and told OF John sr rgos resigninl
from the executive ommittee after
the ST. Louis con, lti1u In May
1917. when the pa adopted IN,
reclamation a. SO 4 .Qe'ag whicl
taasJl acDou.tsMeA,a ,bro-l-r
} imti0n
In closing It's case The -0vcrumen
recalled Arnold schiller soldier
! formerly q clerk u the office OF th'
national Socialist party offices iI
Chicago. Ue gave testimony iu re-
gard TO John k Bleischmdt I
0rother-'u-law %. Nut kruse,
! defendant who had charge uf thO
making 0ut of conscientious ohiec
tors afudavts az SOCIALIST heaaquW
tprs iu Chicago. The evidence show
ad that BloischmIIt registered .u
ths drlt at his home boz Jersey CIiH
buf disappeared when called inr u.l
tary duty and Was classed a- DE-
sertcr from the army
Paul W Rothiuhurg. an employ.
1f the Illinois state food dopartmeu.
and Max Burlov "a printer told 0
| laU.rgd tuti.war sentiments express
ed by Adolph Gormer at meeting
held u Chicago Angus, lO. lHlE
which auervard resulted iH Grr
mOr arrest
Tell, Of Conversation.
". O. HanIey. formerly chi %
Investigators Tor the American Pro
tectye League % Chicago, told %
a conversation he had with Germe
when Doe was brought % the fedora
building after his illegal anti-wa
,peech the night of August 10. 1917
q asked him. said Hanley. ID
ne intended Co continue 20 make uc
! speeches He said he expected {
continue 20 deliver speeches on th
subject. He said be was not the onl
person who held those Views abou
The war lie said Col Roosevelt ha
expressed similar opinions Ia stat,
ments published in the newspaper
| denied the truth oi this statemeu
land there was considerable tai
| about a. Gcrmer said this countr
was dragged into the war 20 hel
| out England
J r Harris former managing ed
lt0r of the Milwaukee Leader an
Lac present with the Milwaukee Joui
lual was recalled fOr further crosI
.yamination by the defense tie wa
shown an article published in Oh
milwaukee Journal In which the M
Waukee Leader was attacked for a
legged disloyalty