New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Selllenoff STAYS
I'm [ Prison Amid
Jeel'i,lg Ghetto
East Side Rushes 10 Roofs
Commanding Ludlow ST.
Jail Yard 10 Hoot Chief
of Cossacks at Exercise
Court Refuses TO Set Aside
Order of Arrest; Counsel
Plan Habeas Corpus Move

Unable to obtain his release on bond
or through other legal means, General
Gregory SemenofF, described before
Senate committee by American officers
as an arch murderer and bandit, re-
NAMED behind prison bars last night.
By an odd atroke of fate the chief
tain Of l2,000000 Cossacks has been
immured in the midst of people of a
race which he IS declared to have per
secuted when he held sway in the land
of the red shadow. In the tenemeDts
around Ludlow Street jail, on the lower
East Side, live those who believe their
countrymen have suffered cruelty ut
the hands OF the man who headed what
he calls the anti-Bolshevik forces in
Siberia.
Hootcd From the Housetops
Pacing the yard of the jail Yesterday.
General SemenoF was given another
demon stratian OF the hatred with which
he was greeted by the district when he
entered the prison .ate Thursday.
rrom '.a o"s and roofs O. the
sf"f 2o.aoy rising above the
brick walls fronting on Grana and
ESSEX sttevg. hundreds o. men, worneu
md children, p9uS ny in Their Passover
deyotions, shouted their contempt and
derision at him.
- the afternoon, while General Sem.
enotf was exercising in the yard with
other prisoners, the crowds OF the
clothes-hung roofs became so great and
so no SN th8t police reserves we're sum-
moned to 90 through the houses and
ordcr tHtM 10 dlsperSe A other times
the police had % scatter the throngs in
the streets about the jail, where the
name Of SemenoE was bitter on every
With surety companies refusing to
supply a $4,000 bond for Semenoff.
his counsel Yesterday took the first Of
several alternative steps to obtain his
release. While the bonding firms have
indicated that the reason they would
not 60 on the bond was a patriotic one.
It is said there was an added influence
IN the protests OF many jewish clients.
Clark, Prentice G. Roulstone, attor-
neys for the Cossack. tried to gain his
liberty by asking Justice Francis B.
Delehanty, sitting in chambers in the
Supreme Court, for an order vacating
the warrant of arrest on which ne is
held in connection with the action #
the Youroveta Home and Foreign Trade
Corporation, Inc. The application was
denied.
Habeas Corpus Move Delayed
The lawyers then prepared to move
for writ of habeas corpus, but as no
judges were available this step was
postponed until to-day At the same
time counsel indicated an appeal from
Justice Delehanty's denial would be
taken to the Appellate Division. I'm
Z ~
cash for his bail or two individual resl
estate sureties. he will remain q pris-
ener until the court passes on the ap-
piIcatlon for a writ which, was
SAID yesterday, might not be until Mon
day.
After night passed on cot in cell
No. s, General Semenotf was aroused
early yesterday and sat down to break
last with the other prisoners. He was
shaved by the jails barber and then
went into the court for exercise. The
yard is hidden from the street by
walls twenty feet high on two sides,
but the tenements opposite are 1oul
and FIVE stories high and The inclos-
urc is visible from the windows above
the third landings.
Every available space at window. on
ire escape and on roof was occupied
when Colonel George Kroupsky, the
general compatrlot, arrived in q taxi
cab. Emerging after an hours con-
Xersation with his friend, Colonel
Aroupsky reported that the general had
passed quiet night, with the excep-
tion of some slight discomfort occa-
s1oned by the dozen bullet wounds dis
tflbuted over his body. Colonel Kroup-
SKY said the generals wife. who has re-
NAMED steadfast to her husband. had
gone from the Waldo rf Astoria to at
tend carly services at the st. Nicholas
Russian Church, Is East Ninety seventh
Street
Police Clear Path for Wife
At o'clock Colonel Kroupsky made
another visit TO the jail, this time &C
companied by Nine. Semenoff, calm and
smiling. The news travelled swiftly
through the neighborhood and Ludlow
street was packed with humanity when
the two emerged. Five policemen
opened lane in the crush to permit
the colonel and madame to reach a taxi
cab.
Later in the afternoon a man and
woman who said they were friends of
General Semenof arrived at the prison
doors, and again the police were re-
CURED to make passageway. The
visitors were not permitted to enter.
but they passed basket of fruit for
the general through the wicket to
deputy warden.