The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-06
Martens Chief of Staff
Taken Into Custody at
New York Embassy" Of
Russian Soviet Govern
ment by Secret Service.
SEEDY LITTLE MAN
TAKESIT COOLLY
Stufs Bible and Volume Of
Schopenhauer's Studies
In Pessimism' Into His
Pocket, Then Departs for
Ellis Island.

New York, Jan. 5.JUncle Sans
long arm reached out today and
gripped the master-mind of the
Red movement in America.
Gregory Weinstein. an inofensive
looking. shabby little fellow of about
40 years of age. is the man. He
was nabbed by Department of JUS
tice agents at the soviet embassy,
headquarters of Ludwig c. A. Mar
tens. self-styled ambassador from
Soviet Russia.
The closest pal" of Trotzky
when the latter was in America. the
chief aid to Martens. and the power
behind Martens, Federal agents say,
Weinstein was bundled into an army
automobile an brushed to the Ellis
Island ferry by a squad of plain
Jclothes me nwho feared radicals
might attempt to release him.
Takes It coolly.
Wcinstein took his arrest with
the GOODNESS of desperate. Later
it was learned he had been ar
rested in Russia under the old
Czaristic regime, sent to Siberia
for life and escaped to this coun-
try after killing two guards with
the heel OF his prison shoe, used
as q bludgcon. That he broke
a Siberian jail is a fact vouched
for b. his counsel
at is nothing more than what
| expected" said Weinstein as de-
tectives broke into his Office and
seized him at his desk.
wait a second, gentlemen"
The slight stuter in his speech
was due to an inhrmity, not ex-
citement.
The seedy little man arose, ex-
changed his reading spectacles for
another pair and stuffed two vol
umes into his pocket One was
4 an old edition of the Bible, and
the other was "Schopenhauer's
Studies in Pesimism."
Il am ready" he said quietly.
Raid Long Planned.
The only reason we have not
arrested Martens himself Is because
we have not yet got the goods on
him." tonight declared George F.
Lamb, division superintendent of
Department of Justice agents IN
New York. This man weinstein is
the coolest bird I've ever seen. We
Grilled him and got little out OF
him. Anyway. it's a weight OF our
minds to know We have him under
lock and key. This raid upon the
Soviet Embassy was planned for
months"
Division Superintendent Lamb
hinted there might be IAN interest
ing outcome" of the fact that two
of his special staff left for Wash
ington directly after weinstein had
.bCen seized and red papers and
documents found in his Office.
In solitary Confinement.
Martens Is said to be in Wash
At Ellis Island tonight weinstein
was put into solitary confinement by
Deputy Immigration Commissioner
Uhl, who refused to let him COM
municate with the 1000 other Boil
shevists. anarchists and Socialists
held there pending deportation pro-
ceedings.
"weinstein is a philosopher. He
cares little whether the government
deports him or whether he gets to
Russia of his own accord SAID
Charles Recht, counsel for weinstein
and about 200 more Reds held on
Ellis Island. Il am not going to fight
his deportation, once / get govern
ment assurance that 1t Is to soviet,
and not white Russia, to which he
will be sent. Tomorrow / shall bail
him out for $1,000 pending trial.
~As for weirstein himself, he is
the most harmless looking little
fellow you ever saw. A recluse,
ever buried in his books. he made
few intimate friends. He never
had a sweethear and I doubt IL he
ever wanted one.
Karl Marx is his god. and he
reads Schopenhauer to cheer him up
when he's over blue"
I Recht said that In the case of
Eugene Newall. editor of the Hun
garian daily paper here. and also
arrested today. there would be a
hight against deportation.