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in* buf’l IM II lei ^UUUiU lit* \ XZ urcu ^ -eause it carried munitions of war. jANDERSON ARRAIGNS WOLP.Henry Wolf. 61 years old. a naturalized citwn of German birth, and a Jus- i itce cf the peAce m J-aporte County, who j is allege* to have made the remark thathe was ”dt ini' more good for the Kaiser * than any ether mafti in his neighborhood.” v as sentenced to serve two yearsin the Federal Prison at Atlanta. Ga„ j by Judge Anderson in the United States District Court yesterday afternoon. Wolf rloaded guilty to the grand Jury indictment charging him with irregularities j in making out questionnaires for mensubject to conscriptioTi.44 PLEADED GUILTY.Wolf was among sixty-five pe'-scn* arraigned in Federal Court yesterday onindictments returned by the grand jurylast month. Forty-four ph adcd guilty:and twenty-one pleaded innocence. jI sometimes wonder if any of your ; people (meaning Germans) are square with the United States, Judge Ander- !son declared before sentencing Wolf, iYou are like a good many others. When you read a paper, you either smile or !frown, according to who is looking atyou. Some of your people take out citizenship with a string attached to it.”TWENTY-ONE PALSE PAPERS.I,. Ert Slack, district attorney, ex- | plained that the government was in the j possession of twenty-one questionnaires .that Wolf made for men of German j descent In a German locality,” and that , the answers in them wer* false, being j made with the intention of obtaining deferred classification for tho registrants. In addition to recording stereotyped”! answers which would insure exemption. Wolf was charged with permitting supporting e.ffidavtts the t wore not signedand sworn to in his presence.HE FIXED IT ALL RIGHT.Wolf was also alleged to have made the statement to one of the registrants who. it is said, should ha\e been placed in class 1 of the draft. I will fix it soyou can stay at home with your fatherfor a while.” The justice of the peace j denied that he intended to hamper theTContinued on page four.) i
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Hammond Lake County Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 07, 1918
Page 14
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