The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-15
is AMERICAN NOW
Civil War Veteran Had Lived in
U. s. for 81 Years.
Then Discovered He Was a
Subject of Germany.
mi AAu NARlInnIHTrn HIIAA
POLLOCK NATURALIzES HIM
Four British Subjects Also Are
Made Americans.
Memorial Services Held for
Four Departed Lawyers.

After serving three years in the
Union army in the Civil war and liv-
ing 81 years in the United States, John
Hitezman discovered that he was
subject of Germany, he told Judge
Pollock in the federal court here Mon
day afternoon. He was admitted to
citizenship, under the federal statute
providing for the admittance of hon
orably discharged Civil war veterans
without the filing of a declaration of
intention.
Hitezman is a resident of Leaven-
worth county and is 80 years old. He
said that during the war a neighbor
brought up the subject and accused
him of being German, which Hitze-
man Indignantly denied.
Il have lived here siXty-two years
and fought three years in the Civil
war, receiving an honorable dis
charge" he said he told his neighbor.
IF that don't make me a citizen, what
WILLY" But upon investigation. he
said, he found that his father with
whom he came to America when a
child, had failed to take out citizen
ship papers. He said he did not regis
ter as an enemy alien because he was
not aware that he was one at that
time. He declared himself an Ameri-
can at heart and the court made him
one in law
Britishers Naturalized.
King George v of England lost four
subjects during the naturalization
hearings Thomas Beggs Stewart, OF
wamego, who has lived in Kansas
twenty years, was admitted Percy
Longley DwinneA was born in Wis
consin, but went to Canada and be-
came British subject. He came
back, applied for American citizen
ship again and was admitted. The
court also admitted Henry stephen
Cornelius, a material man for the
Santa Fe, living in Topeka; and Percy
Ross Atkins, a minister of Alma, Kan,
when went to France with the Y. M.
c. A.
Andrew G. Carlson, swede and a
mail carrier at Eskridge, who had
lived in the United States for thirty
six years, was also admitted to citi-
zenship.
When court convened at 2 O'Clock
for the afternoon session, memorial
services were held by the members of
lon, Paul Walker, James d. MacFar-
land and Harry T. Bone, former dis
trict attorney. Resolutions apprecia
tive of the four lawyers were adopted
and ordered by Judge Pollock to be
spread upon the records of the court
Blair, Luther Burns. q. F. Carver.
Fred Robertson and others. Judge
Pollock himself spoke feeIingIy or the
departure of the four men, with all of
Nhom ne was intimately acquainted.
Arrest Draft Evadcrs.
Fred Robertson, district attorney,
announced a new policy with refer
ence to the draft act. and declared
his intention to arrest and try every
man who left the country to evade
tho draft act in case of their re-
turn. He is now investigating nearly
a thousand cases of draft evasion,
h says. Edward Froelich, Joseph
Froelich and Thomas Rost were in
dicted and scheduled to be tried at
this term of court, but have left the
United States according to Robert
son.
]. Clyde Sauvain, of Kansas City,
charged with selling morphine to SOL
diers at Camp Funston, stepped out
in the hall to take a smoke. While
there, his case was called in court
and when he failed to answer, his
$500 bond was forfeited. He surren-
dered to the marshal last night and
will attempt to get his money back
and appear for trial, it was said.