May 9, 1914
"SWEET MARIE" NOW LIKES JOHN D. JR.
Change Due to Hearing of His "White Slave" Work—Her. Writ Fails.
New Haven, May 8.—"Sweet Marie" Ganz, who was sentenced to Blackwell's Island for sixty days for threatening to "shoot John D. Rockefeller, Jr., like a dog," was brought over from the workhouse yesterday and appeared before Justice Lehman in the supreme court on a writ of habeas corpus.
She contended that her incarceration was not legal. Justice Lehman decided it was and ordered her back to prison. In court she said her opinion of John D. Jr., had changed.
"He's not such a bad fellow," she proclaimed. "Since I have .been on the Island I have met a lot of women of the underworld. "From them I learned the work Mr. Rockefeller had done to uplift the white slaves. I did not know that until a few days ago."
Soon after she had reached the workhouse orders came to transfer "Sweet Marie" to the Queens County
jail, Long Island city. She arrived there last evening and was put to work peeling potatoes, scrubbing floors and doing laundry work. The transfer was made because there, is not sufficient help to run the jail. The Ganz girl said she was, glad of the transfer.
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