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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
12
The House Special Elections Committee adjourned hearings on Victor Berger’s bid for a House seat after Milwaukee Leader editorials led to his Espionage Act indictment. The adjournment till July 7 allows Berger to prepare evidence to meet the charge.
A man calling himself Ralph Waserberg was arraigned in New York on charges of forging United States government securities and passing forged warrants. He allegedly printed blank Treasury warrants at Fort Leavenworth, escaped, and cashed warrants nationwide with Secret Service agents tracing the plot. Twelve men were arrested in a related Kansas City counterfeiting case, with Waserberg questioned in New York.
Federal officials say the counterfeit warrants were made as pay checks by inmates using official government paper. The checks bore forged names of government officials and were printed by prisoners when officers were absent, with denominations mostly in $100 bills totaling about $60,000.
In Mineola New York on June 12 a tall woman in black hat drew attention in the Wilkins murder trial. Miss Mary Murphy identified as a potential witness denied quarreling with Mrs. Wilkins. She said she lived at 164 West Sixty fifth Street and left February 14. The trial into Dr Walter Keene Wilkins alleged wife murder resumed with 102 talesmen examined and two ill jurors. A new panel of fifty talesmen was ordered, and the court adjourned until Saturday.
Washington June 12. Dr. Sidney Gulick urged relaxing federal laws to admit Japanese and Chinese immigrants, proposing annual 5 percent of barred nationals. W. J. McClatchy opposed any admission, arguing they are undesirable economically and would gain vast territory, citing Japanese populations in the United States and California.
Mrs. William Nisbet and her daughter Helen were seriously injured when a car backing from the Hivera Garage at 25 West Second Street struck their automobile on a steep hill between Broadway and Riverside Drive. They were taken home after treatment by Dr W D Hennen. Dennis O'Brien of 340 East Eighteenth Street, in charge of the final car, faced arrest on a felonious assault charge.
In Brooklyn, the trial of fifteen Coastwise Lumber and Supply Company officers continues on conspiracy to defraud the government by short lumber shipments. Government inspector James J. Lynch testified about a 1918 cargo named Margrane Carbray from Canada allegedly totaling 242000 feet, with an inspection showing 217566 feet. The government alleges the company checker accepted these figures despite a vessel capacity of 186000 feet. Lynch, who admitted prior incompetence as an inspector, previously worked as a watchman and a bartender.
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