May 5, 1914
GIRL SAYS THAT SHE WOULD KILL ROCKEFELLER, JR.
NEW YORK. May 4.—“Yesterday I was at the office of John D.
Rockefeller, jr., and if I could have got him I would have shot him down like a
dog.” In these words, Marie Ganz voiced her protest against Mr. Rockefeller, according
to the testimony of Irving Ettinger, a police headquarters stenographer at the
trial of Miss Ganz today on a charge of disorderly conduct. The woman was
arrested last week after she had made several fruitless attempts to see Mr.
Rockefeller in connection with the Colorado mine workers’ strike and had addressed
open air meetings.
Ettinger testified to two other alleged excerpts from the defendant’s
speeches. One was: “If he is not going to stop the slaughter in Colorado he can
run to his father’s house and hide because at the first chance I will get him
with a bullet.” The other was: “Do not make your protestations in kind words or
language. Use dynamite.”
Several detectives testified for the prosecution and
adjournment was taken until tomorrow afternoon. If found guilty Miss Ganz will
be liable
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to a maximum penalty of six months in the work house.
Not many blocks from the court, Miss Ganz before being
arraigned, addressed a street gathering, verbally attacking Mr. Rockefeller,
who is in seclusion at the Rockefeller Pocantico hills estate in Westchester
county. Several hundred Industrial Workers of the World attempted to enter the
court room, but were kept out by police reserves at the request of the
magistrate.
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