The sun., 1919-02-01
TESTIFTES O'LEARY
WAS BULLS CENSOR
Former Stenographer Helps
Government Fix His Respon-
sibility for Quips.
HE ORDERED POEM CUT
Prosecution Offers Evidence to
Show His Anti-Ally
Attacks.

In a poem captioned The River OF
Fears" printed in the August. 1917, Is
cue Of Bull, there appeared these lines;
and truly twas httins that ono should
weep .., -,
when our mob. ''boys' were sent like sheep
To the shamb!es or like shackled slaves,
In letters who's. links are forged by knaves,
Far Over the sea to night gsinst those
Who were not and never have peen our
In footnote there was offered the
Information that the poem was written
by an American lady. aged so. with an
American ancestry of 2S9 years"
Much OF the procedure in the FIRST
days examination of witnesses In tho
trial OF jeremiah a. O'Leary and his
codefcndants before Federal Judge
Augustus N Hand yesterday had to do
with the responsibility for the publica-
ton OF the foregoing excerpt. O'Leary
and Adolf Stern. one time business
manager OF Bal, together with the Bull
Publishing Company and the American
Truth Society, of which O'Leary is
president. are defending themselves
against a Federal indictment alleging
conspiracy to obstruct and retard the
operation of the draft.
O'Leary Ordered Lines Out.
Mrs. Klara Zwil,nger, formerly a
stenographer employed by the Bull Pub
fishing Company, identified copies of the
publication in which the poem appeared
She was called by the Government but
on cross-examination said that Jeremiah
O'Leary, after he had seen the first
issues Of the magazine, had ordered
that the above lines be stricken out
Mrs. Zwillinger said that she had tele-
phoned the printers. but was unable TO
say OF her own knowledge whether the
presses had been stopped and OLeary's
order actually carried out.
On redirect examination James w.
Osborne I'd. acting for the Government
asked the witness whether O'Leary had
said in effect that IL those lines are
printed we'll all go TO Jail" Mrs Twill
linger replied that OLeary had used
some such language.
The poem in question. tho witness
said, had been written by the mother
Of Luther S. Bedford. former asso-
ciaie of O'Leary in the Bull Publishing
Company Bedford was Jointly indicted,
but subsequently, got separate trial.
The Government officials felt last night
that in establishing O'Learys assump-
ton OF the role of censor for what was
and was not safe to print in the maya
zine the prosecution scored strongly.
At the suggestion Of Arthur O'Leary
OF counsel for the defence Judge Hand
permitted jeremiah to ask Mrs. Zwillin-
ger some questions about the organiza-
ton and routine OF the Bull Publishing
Company's offices. jeremiah conducted
at ,,,. e 70 ,ta
in the course of which he got on the rec
ord her statements that she had over
heard him tell numbers OF young men
who came to him for advice regarding
their duties In the draft registration that
1T would be better for them as Ameri-
cans to register"
The Government introduced in evil
oeDce copies Of Bull for June, July, Au-
gust and September OF 1917, and also a
volume entitled Fables OF John Bull"
by jeremiah A. O'Leary. On the fy leaf
of this exhibit there appears the follow
ing inscription autographed by O'Leary:
To my friend AdoIph Pavcnstedt. with
the compliments and best wishes of the
author. also in grateful appreciation OF
kindly interest and assistance in and TO
the efforts of the American Truth Society
to rectfy the injustice of a false Ameri-
can public opinion
Pavenstedt I'm Internment Camp.
Pavenstedt is member OF the bank
ing firm OF q. .tms!rck 4 Co.. and acted
rs intermediary between Count Won
Bernstorfr and Bolo Pasha. He is at an
.nternnent camp NJ Fort Oglethorpe. Ga
Among some of the matter published
in Bun TO which Mr.. Osborne directed
the attention of the jury was cartoon
depicting King George OF Great Britain
entering a nawpshOp nv
upon the door OF which hung a placard
reading. American independence ex-
changed for royal bunk and junk"
King George was represented as some
thing OF mendicant. and the caption
quoted him as expressing n desire to
hook his crown.
A paragraph In the same issue read
-Four reasons why the United States
should never have entered the war The
submarines, the Atlantic Ocean, the
world food situation and unprepared-
ness"
Others were:
with the Kings Of Serbia, Rumania.
Montenegro and Belgium driven from
none and the Car dethroned and in
prison the question may he raised. Is the
Kaiser trying 10 make the world safe for
democracyT
America first in cow feed. England
FIRST in real food
Other matter upon which the Govern
ment bases its charge of attempting to
obstruct the operation Of the draft APP
pears under the general heading Our
Constitutional Rights" in which the edi-
tors OF Bull claim the right under the
guarantee OF the freedom OF the prest
10 discuss "the necessity OF repeating the
selective draft law and the ACCESSIBILITY
OF sending troops to France"
'Terrorizing" HeadIines.
In another paragraph captioned Tho
Reign Of Terror" B,dl quotes what pur-
ports to be headlines In various American
newspapers as follows:
death for Treason Awaits Anti-rraft
Plottefs."--Los Angeles Times. NET
Drawn Throughout Nation on PIotters
1nA Slackers'-Denver Post War
@'lotters Curbed by Fear"-San Fran
r!sco Examiner. Round Up Anti Draft
Plotters."-Chicago Herald win Ar.
rest All Who Hamper Working OF
Draft New Orleans Times Picayurc
Subjoined to the headline quotation f.
this observation by the Bun editors;
These are samples OF headlines used
TO terrorize the people into 'approyipr