BUND LEADER IN GAOL.
DISAGREEMENT WITH POLICE. WEBSTER (Massachusetts), July 16. Tlic German-American Bund Leader (Fritz Kuhn) discovered rural America to-day, landing in gaol as a result of it. A policeman halted him 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 stationhouse, where it was agreed that Kuhn should drive. After starting the motor Kuhn leaned out of the window and cursed the police who promptly pulled him out and arrested him on charges of drunkenness and profanity.
Kuhn was released after he and the Count had raised 54 dollars for bail.
“Kuhn was just another ‘wise guy,’ ” commented the police chief (!Vfr John Templeman), ‘ who thought this a ‘hick’ town and he could stage one of those beerhall putsch things and be dictator in it.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 7
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