The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-14
SEMENOFF JAILED
 WHEN EFFORTS ID
 MAKE BOND FAIL
Surety Company Cancels Bail Because of Charges of Atrocities Against Amer
 ican Soldiers
By Associated Press

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 New York, April 13.-Gen. Greg orie Semenoff, ataman of the Cos sacks, was locked up in Ludlow street jail tonight after a day of frantic efforts by several lawyers to get bondsman who would give $25,000 bail to Sheriff Nagle, Sem enoff was arrested last week on a civil warrant and freed to bail, but his original bondsman refused to continue as surety.
 The general gave himself up to sheriff Nagle in the latter's office at 2:s0 in the afternoon and from then until o'clock sat watching with eager eyes every person who entered the door. But as each new person turned out to be anything but a prospective bondsman, the cossack' 8 countenance fell. Even the military mustaches which adorn his face seem ed to droop as the time drew near for him to enter the sheriffs automobile for his trip to jail.
 Madame Semenoff, his young wife. was courageous during the afternoon. She had been i'll, she said, worrying about her husband and she begged the sheriff to take her jewels for the bond. But he couldn't, he explained, although she could offer them to a bonding company as collateral.
 Very Exciting Day.
 The day had been one of excitement for General Semenoff, his assistants and friends. This morning, the gem eral went to his lawyers office for a conference, and found there a rep resentatiye of the surety company which had furnished his bail. He was told that because of the notoriety his case had brought and because com pany officials thought 1t unpatriotic to act IS bondsman for man charg- ed with atrocities against Amer tean soidiors. they were going to surrender him at noon,
 Just before noon Col. George kroup- skey, who was Semenoff's chief aide in Russia and Is now helping him here, was stopped by policeman on Broadway and searched Kroupsky had revolver and narrowly escaped going to jail himself, He was held until he finally understood what was required and showed a permit.
 Just after o'clock General Sem enoff and two or three friends, law yers and interpreters, started for Sheriff Nagle's office. M. NJ. Brcher, counsel for the surety company, was there and after Madame Semenoff had counted her chain of pearls and Ia .,xf,f hald as collateral he turned the general over to the sheriff
 Proceedings Delayed
 Meanwhile the proceedings brought against Semepoff by the trustee for the Youroveta Home and Foreign Trading company, a bankrupt New York concern, were called before Peter B. Olney, referee in bankruptcy, and David ". Glaze, a Semenoff at- torney, was compelled to ask an ad journment because Semenoff was held by the sheriff.
 The hearing will go on tomorrow afternoons and General Semenoffl presence will be sought on a subpoena which was prepared for service in the morning on jail attendants. Imme- diately after the hearing. W. B. Rou3- stone. another of the cossack's at tOTneyB, plans to ASK TOT an or0cf from the state supreme court vacat- ing the arrest of the general. General Senenoff while he was waiting for the bondsman who never came, declared that he was guiltless of any atrocities In Siberia or any where else.
 T fought against the bolsheviki,' he said, through an interpreter. and 1t is possible my men may have gone to excess in some cases. But I never countenanced any such things. and stories that I knowingly permitted my men to attack women and chii- dren or shoot American soldiers are foolish"
 The general told of seven bullet l wounds in his shoulder and knee which he said give him great pain, And he said he was worrying about spending night in jail because of l them.
 l He was also worried about Madame Semenoff. he said. because she had | been III.