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of the Andover Township Committee. To»V spent the night in the Count? Jail here and were released the next day In $1,000 bail pB.<-h. A "warrant for the arrest of Clatk also was issued, but he could not be found. Tha agrarian chairman of tha Township Committer. Charles Bar- bay, who has been fighting tha Bund since It opened the camp three years ago, hailed the indictments aa sustaining "our efforts, after our long, hard fight, to rid this township and county of the Fifth Column." "If there hadn't been an Indictment," he added, "I'm mighty afraid that the good citizens of Sussex County would have taken the law in their own handa and gone ln there with clubs." Sheriff Denton J. Quick, who gathered much of the evidence presented to the grand Jury, said the jury had "paved the way for similar effective aotlon by other grand Juries throughout the nation." Nona of the defendants was present when tha Indictments were handed up. nor were they represented by counsel. It was said at the office of Prosecutor Charles T. Downing that they would be notified by mall of tha grand Jury's action. Ke«gan Laughs at Chargea O. WUhelm Kunze. successor to Frits Kuhn as head of tha Oerman- Amerlcan Bund, had no comment here yesterday at the bund headquarters. 178 East Eighty-fifth Street, when informed he had been indicted ln New Jersey for "promoting hatred against persons of the Jewish religion." His counsel, Wilbur V. Keegan. also indicted, laughed heartily and said it did not make sense and that ha would wait and see. LEADERS OF BUND INDICTED IN JERSEY Kunia, National Fuehrer, Is Among; Ten Accused of Inciting Race Hatred NORDLANDTALKSINVOLVED Sussex Jury Charges 1935 State Law Violation—Lawyer for Croup Laughs Spttlal lo Tm New Toxa Turn. NEWTON. N. J., Oct. 10-Eight members of the German-American Bund, including national Bundes- fuehrer G. WUhelm Kunze. and two men who have been associated with the organization, were indicted today by the Sussex County grand Jury for violation of the 1935 New Jersey statutes prohibiting the In- citation of racial or religious hatred by persons making speeches or permitting such speeches to be made. The indictment*, the result of an Investigation of activities at Camp Nordland. Bund recreation center In Andover Township, were returned by a Jury of sixteen men and seven women to Common Pleas Judge John Losey, who set Oct. 18 for the arraignment of the defendants. The maximum penalty on conviction is three years ln prison and a $5,000 fine. 1 Separate Indictments were returned against August Klapprott, Eastern district leader of the Bund and manager of Camp Nordland; Matthias Kohler ot 1022 Grove Street, Irvlngton, N. J., New Jersey treasurer of the Bund; Leonard D. Clark of 178 East Eighty-fifth Street, New York City, said to be a writer for Bund newspapers, and Wilbur V. Keegan of 22 Twenty- third Street, West New York, N. J., attorney for the Bund in New Jersey. These four were accused of making speechea "promoting and advocating hatred and hostility against people of the Jewish religion" at Camp Nordland. Kohler's speech is alleged to have been made on Jur.e 16 and those of the others on June 9. Keegan is not a member of the Bund and Clark's present status was not made clear. Klapprott and Kohler also were Indicted with Kunze and five other members of the board ot trustees of tha German-American Bund. Inc., of New Jersey, on the ground they permitted "the use of a structure for a meeting whereat persons, in tha presence of two or mora persons, were to make speeches promoting and advocating hatred and hostility against people of the Jewish religion." The others named nn this count were listed aa tha Rev. John C. Fitting of 518 Forty- seventh Street, Union City, secretary; Carl Schlphorst of 54 Grand View Place, Glen Rock; George Neuppert of 233 Washington Place, Cliffside Park; Paul Schaarschmldt of 299 Vernon Avenue, Paterson, and Richard Schlele, no address. Kunze's address was given aa 178 East Eighty-fifth Street, New York City. Kunze, Klapprott and Kohler were arrested at the camp during an Independence Day celebration by - o w I
Object Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943 |
Box Number | 168 |
Folder Number | 04 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Access | Request access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Language | English |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943 |
Box Number | 168 |
Folder Number | 04 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Description |
Activities Nazism Axis Fifth Column in United States Printed Material |
Access | Request access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Language | English |
Transcript | of the Andover Township Committee. To»V spent the night in the Count? Jail here and were released the next day In $1,000 bail pB.<-h. A "warrant for the arrest of Clatk also was issued, but he could not be found. Tha agrarian chairman of tha Township Committer. Charles Bar- bay, who has been fighting tha Bund since It opened the camp three years ago, hailed the indictments aa sustaining "our efforts, after our long, hard fight, to rid this township and county of the Fifth Column." "If there hadn't been an Indictment," he added, "I'm mighty afraid that the good citizens of Sussex County would have taken the law in their own handa and gone ln there with clubs." Sheriff Denton J. Quick, who gathered much of the evidence presented to the grand Jury, said the jury had "paved the way for similar effective aotlon by other grand Juries throughout the nation." Nona of the defendants was present when tha Indictments were handed up. nor were they represented by counsel. It was said at the office of Prosecutor Charles T. Downing that they would be notified by mall of tha grand Jury's action. Ke«gan Laughs at Chargea O. WUhelm Kunze. successor to Frits Kuhn as head of tha Oerman- Amerlcan Bund, had no comment here yesterday at the bund headquarters. 178 East Eighty-fifth Street, when informed he had been indicted ln New Jersey for "promoting hatred against persons of the Jewish religion." His counsel, Wilbur V. Keegan. also indicted, laughed heartily and said it did not make sense and that ha would wait and see. LEADERS OF BUND INDICTED IN JERSEY Kunia, National Fuehrer, Is Among; Ten Accused of Inciting Race Hatred NORDLANDTALKSINVOLVED Sussex Jury Charges 1935 State Law Violation—Lawyer for Croup Laughs Spttlal lo Tm New Toxa Turn. NEWTON. N. J., Oct. 10-Eight members of the German-American Bund, including national Bundes- fuehrer G. WUhelm Kunze. and two men who have been associated with the organization, were indicted today by the Sussex County grand Jury for violation of the 1935 New Jersey statutes prohibiting the In- citation of racial or religious hatred by persons making speeches or permitting such speeches to be made. The indictment*, the result of an Investigation of activities at Camp Nordland. Bund recreation center In Andover Township, were returned by a Jury of sixteen men and seven women to Common Pleas Judge John Losey, who set Oct. 18 for the arraignment of the defendants. The maximum penalty on conviction is three years ln prison and a $5,000 fine. 1 Separate Indictments were returned against August Klapprott, Eastern district leader of the Bund and manager of Camp Nordland; Matthias Kohler ot 1022 Grove Street, Irvlngton, N. J., New Jersey treasurer of the Bund; Leonard D. Clark of 178 East Eighty-fifth Street, New York City, said to be a writer for Bund newspapers, and Wilbur V. Keegan of 22 Twenty- third Street, West New York, N. J., attorney for the Bund in New Jersey. These four were accused of making speechea "promoting and advocating hatred and hostility against people of the Jewish religion" at Camp Nordland. Kohler's speech is alleged to have been made on Jur.e 16 and those of the others on June 9. Keegan is not a member of the Bund and Clark's present status was not made clear. Klapprott and Kohler also were Indicted with Kunze and five other members of the board ot trustees of tha German-American Bund. Inc., of New Jersey, on the ground they permitted "the use of a structure for a meeting whereat persons, in tha presence of two or mora persons, were to make speeches promoting and advocating hatred and hostility against people of the Jewish religion." The others named nn this count were listed aa tha Rev. John C. Fitting of 518 Forty- seventh Street, Union City, secretary; Carl Schlphorst of 54 Grand View Place, Glen Rock; George Neuppert of 233 Washington Place, Cliffside Park; Paul Schaarschmldt of 299 Vernon Avenue, Paterson, and Richard Schlele, no address. Kunze's address was given aa 178 East Eighty-fifth Street, New York City. Kunze, Klapprott and Kohler were arrested at the camp during an Independence Day celebration by - o w I |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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