FINED FIVE DOLLARS

Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 15

FINED FIVE DOLLARS

GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND LEADER PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUNKENNESS AND PROFANITY Press Association-By Telegraph—Copyright WEBSTER (Massachusetts), July 21. The German-Amerioan bund leader, Fritz Kuhn, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and profanity, and was fined Sdol. He then told the Press that he was neither drunk nor profane. The plea of guilty was entered in order to avoid a courtroom theatrical performance.” On leaving the courtroom Kuhn extended his hand to a police officer, saying, “No hard feelings, I hope. The officer, who was a former prize fighter, replied, “ It was a good thing I was in uniform when you said what you did, or your own mother would not have recognised you.”

[A policeman halted Kuhn and Count Anastase von Siatsky, leader of the White Russians in America, as the pair left a cafe 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 Kuhn should drive. After starting the motor Kuhn leaned out of the window and cursed the policeman, who oromptly pulled him out and arreste® him on charges of drunkenness and profanity. Kuhn was released after he and the count raised 54d0l for bail. “ Kuhn was just another wise guy,” commented the police chief, Mr John Templeman, “ who thought this a hick town and that he could stage one of those beerhall putsch things and be a dictator in it.”]