The sun., 1919-02-26
IA RADICALS SEEK
FREEDOM IN WRIT
Aliens Taken in Alleged Plot
on Wilson's Life to Face
Court To-day.
NINE NAY GET LIBERTY
Five Likely to Be Deported-
Detectives Connect 2 With
Red Activities.

heu ACTIVITIES.
The fourteen allen radicals arrested
here by secret service men and the police
last Sunday. or at a time when the
secret service was convinced that an
attempt upon the life of President Will
son was to be made when he arrived
at Boston. will be brought from their
cells at Police Headquarters this morn
ing to tho Federal District Court on
writ OF habeas corpus taken out In
the prisoners behalf yesterday after
noon.
Counsel for the men, Harry wein-
berger, 281 Broadway, went to Judge
John c. Knox In the Judges chambers
yesterday and obtained the writ, which
Is returnable at 3 o'clock this morning.
Attorney Weinberser personally served
the writ upon acting Detective Sergeant
Cornelius J. Brown OF the bomb squad
and simultaneously a certified copy OF
the writ was served upon Capt Peter
A. Rubano of the secret service In his
Office at the Custom House.
wine huy ne rEccu Io-unys
1t is probable that nine of the four
teen radicals will be liberated to-day
after the habeas corpus proceedings
The remaining Ave, however, almost all
of whom freely admit they are anarch-
lists. will have to face strong opposition
on the part OF the Federal authorities
in any attempt to free them from Gus
tody. II was predicted last night that
" aarN.tNa mn
produce evidence OF plotting against the
Ave the immigration authorities viii step
In and ask that the five be held for de-
portation.
Who retained Attorney weinberger-
who has represented notorious anarch-
lists and kindred radicals in the past
to look after the interests OF the four
teen radicals arrested last Sunday could
not be learned. not even from Attorney
Weinberger lie had been retained. he
said. by individuals representing an or
ganization."
No Proof, Says Appeal.
The chief paragraph OF Attorney
We!nbergers appeal for his writ OF
habeas corpus runs as follows:
The cause and pretense OF the i'm
prisonment and restraint OF the said
men. according to the best knowledge
and belief of your petitioner Is that II
is claimed the said men were guilty OF
a conspiracy TO kill the President OF the
United States. and further inquiry as
to their right by said secret service to
be In this country: and that II 10 your
petitioners belief that the said alleged
conspiracy has no basis In fact and
was merely an excuse to arrest go
called radicals. and that the United
states Secret Service has admitted that
they have no proof OF a bomb conspi-
racy against the President. and that at
the present time they are merely ques-
t!oning the DEFENDANTS and putting them
through what is commonly known az
the third degree TO obtain information
from them"
No doubt remained in the mind of in
reviewers yesterday, after talking with
secret service men and others interested
In the arrests here and In Philadelphia
Sunday, that the secret service men were
and still are convinced that q plot
against the President life was in the
making during the days that the George
Washington was heading from Brest &c
Boston. Other Government agents adj
mitted yesterday they were convinced
the local developments of the plot were
a part of an international movement. di.
rected from Barcelona, TO rise violently
against various rulers and Ministers OF
state now interested in the international
, peace conference in Paris
Now that President Wilson is safely
in Washington the secret service mer
seem to take almost no interest In the
| nine prisoners here, who, 1t is predicted
will be liberated to-day In fact there
was more than a possibility late yester,
1ar of that the nine might hf
| freed at any moment. Attorney Vein.
! berger said at Police Headquarters, after
| talking over the telephone with Capt
| Rubano OF the secret service. that tho
! local head of the service had given per
| mission to let the nine go scot free forth
with, or at least after certain necessary
release papers had been signed.
| Captain Gone, Nothing Doing.
| But when the lawyer for the radicals
hurried down to the captains office a.
the Custom House Capt Rubano hac
| gone for the day" 1t was said by othel
secret service men in his office The law
yer took the hitch In the affair philo
| sophically and headed toward dinner
lat the City Club" he said--and a show
saying that he had done all that he coulC
| for the present and would call II a day
| But very radically inclined radica
! young man. well dressed and seemingly
an American, insisted violently in al
outer room of the secret service Office,
| that Capt. Rubano had not left tn,
offices. The young man. who said hi
name was Flint and represented vari
ously Socialists of Philadelphia and tn,
! Philadelphia Welfare League" grew 81
| noisy in his denunciation OF things a!
they were that secret service men ha(
| TO threaten him with an anarchist,
election from the Office II he dida't ge
| out.
YaiSS Mr.. Flint ETw-abusve
| secret Service operative advanced upol
| Flint, the secret service man peeling hi
coat for action as he jumped forward
| Whereupon Flint hastil~ retreated to
cold corridor, where. with white face an,
trembling voice, he told the world tina
he was "a citizen" and knew his rights.
But his declaration got him nothinJ
and he faded finally into the rainy night
still all in one piece.
Held for Secret Service.
The fourteen prisoners, It was sal,
at Police Headquarters. were not beini
detained by the Police Department. bu
were held at headquarters merely as al