LANDED IN GAOL
NAZI LEADER IN U.S.A-
INCIDENT WITH POLICE
"JUST ANOTHER WISE GUY"
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Received July 17, 2 p.m.)
NEW YORK, July 16.
The leader of the German-American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, discovered rural America today, and landed in gaol as a result. -.-'■.. A policeman halted Kuhn and Count Anastase yon Siatsky, leader of tha White Russians in America, as the pair left a cafe in Webster, Massachusetts, and started to enter the. Count's' car. The policeman insisted that the Count was too drunk to drive, and took both to the station; house," 'where• it" was agreed that Kuhn should drive.: After starting the motoi Kuhn leaned out of the window and cursed the police, [who promptly pulled him out and.-r----rested him on charges of drunkenness and profanity. Kuhn was released after he and the Count h&d raised 54 i dollars bail. '.*'"■ : The Police Chief, Mr. John Templeman, said: "Kuhn was just another wise guy who thought this was a hick town and that he could stage one of them beer-hall putsch things and be a dictator in it."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 10
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181LANDED IN GAOL Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 10
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