1914.05.05: MARIE GANZ, AN ANARCHIST, WOULD KILL ROCKEFELLER

May 5, 1914

MARIE GANZ, AN ANARCHIST, WOULD KILL ROCKEFELLER

DECLARES HE'D BETTER REMAIN IN HIDING AT HIS FATHER'S COUNTRY HOME

THIS IS WHAT SHE SAID SAY POLICE STENOGRAPHER

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 E. Ettinger, a police stenographer, at the trial of Miss Ganz today on a charge of disorderly conduct. She was arrested last week after she had made several fruitless efforts to see Rockefeller in connection with the Colorado strike and had addressed open meetings. Ettinger testified to two other alleged excerpts from the defendant's speech. 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 in language. Use dynamite."

Several detectives testified for the prosecution and adjournment was taken until tomorrow afternoon. If found guilty, Miss Ganz will be liable to a maximum penalty of six months in the workhouse.

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 home in Westchester county.