1914.06.10: BOUCK WHITE'S FOES SEEK HIS RELEASE

June 10, 1914

BOUCK WHITE'S FOES SEEK HIS RELEASE

His Counsel Presents Appeal from Directors of Rockefeller Church.

JANE EST AGAIN SENT TO BLACKWELL'S 

Fiery I.W.W. Woman Interrupts Meeting of Peace Forum and Tries Short Arm Jab.

 

Bouck White, who was sentenced to six months in Jail for creating a disturbance in John D. Rockefeller's Calvary Baptist Church, may get his freedom within a day or two. White, who is in the Queens County jail, has served less than a month of his sentence.

The arguments on White's appeal were to have been heard yesterday before Judge Malone in General Sessions. Miss Bertha Rembaugh, counsel for White, changed the programme by producing a letter from the Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin, of Calvary, stating that the church directors believed he had received sufficient punishment. the letter recommended immediate release.

At the suggestion of Judge Malone, Miss Rembaugh agreed to ask Magistrate Campbell, who sentenced White, to advocate clemency. Magistrate Campbell's opinion, the court declared, would carry great weight.

Adjournment was taken to 3 o'clock this afternoon, when former Assistant District Attorney James W. Osborne will apprear for White, if it is necessary to argue the appeal.

Fiery Jane Est, leader, with Frank Tannenbaum of the I.W.W. raid on the Church of St. Alphonsus, the night of March 4, and single handed disruptor of the services in Dr. Parkhurst's church on April 12, yesterday afternoon interrupted Frank Urban of the International Peace Forum, who was conducting a meeting at Madison av. and 24th st., demanding the right to explain to the crowd exactly where Urban was in error. Urban invited Miss Est to "go and get a meeting of her own."

Miss Est responded  with the athletic argument of a short arm jab, which Urban neatly eluded. The Peace Forum man then summoned a policeman and Miss Est was soon arraigned before Lieutenant Powers in the East 22d st. station.

She and the lieutenant staged a small reunion, because it was to the same station that Miss Est was consigned after the Parkhurst uprising, which gave her a thirty-day sentence. Formalities concluded, Miss Est was taken to the Essex Market court, where Magistrate Campbell, who does not pretend to understand philosophy and sociology, gave Miss Est three months on Blackwell's Island. [NOTE: Est had been quoted in another article saying that she was a student of philosophy & sociology.]

Miss Est conducted her own defence. She said that she was thirty-six years of age and had no home.