The article below was during WWI, 97 years ago ..... RUCKER, PAUL - ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF BEING ENEMY Source: Alton Evening Telegraph, October 25, 1917 Paul Rucker, a German alien, employed as a mold maker at the Illinois Glass Factory, was arrested at noon today and is held incommunicado in the Alton jail on the charge of making seditious statements against the United States. The Deputy States Marshall has been sent for and he will be down from Springfield to take charge of Rucker, and take up his case before the Federal District Court at Springfield. Rucker is charged with criticizing the United States government in connection with the Liberty Loan campaign, which has been prosecuted this week with great vigor at the Illinois Glass Companys plant. While circulars were being distributed in the mould department, Rucker is said to have taken one of the circulars with a defiant sneer, and to have made a vulgar remark about it, at the same time throwing it away behind his back. He is said to have murmured, Thats what I think about the Liberty Bond. Fellow workmen were shocked by the remark. They immediately sent word to the police department with the result that he was arrested while at work today. A warrant charging Rucker with being an alien enemy and violating the Presidents [Wilson] proclamation was issued, in addition to the charge of expressing seditious thoughts. Rucker, it developed, was given a permit to work in restricted territory, and it was cancelled some time ago. He returned to work in the restricted territory, and now a double charge is against him. A number of other cases of seditious remarks which have been made by citizens of German descent and aliens in Alton, have been reported to the Federal authorities and arrests may also be made in some of the other cases very soon.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:41:50 +0000
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