ARRESTED GERMAN
OFFENCE IN AMERICA FINED ON PLEADING GUILTY (Received .Tuly 21, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 20 The German American Bund leader, Fritz Kuhn, who was arrested at Web-' ?ter, Massachusetts, on July 16 on charges of drunkenness and profanity, pleaded guilty to-day and/was fined five dollars. Subsequently, Kuhn told reporters that he was neither drunk nor profane. His plea of guilty was made in order to avoid a "theatrical performance" in Court. On leaving the Court room he extended a hand to the police officer who had 'arrested him, saying: "No hard feelings, I hope." The officer, who formerly was a prizefighter, replied: "It is a good thing I was in uniform when you said what you did, or your own mother would not have recognised you."
A policeman stopped Kuhn and Count Anastase von Siatsky, leader of the White Russians in America, as the pair left a cafe at Webster, and started to enter the Count's oar. The policeman insisted that the Count was too drunk to drive and took them both to the police station, where it was agreed that Kuhn should drive. After starting the motor Kuhn leaned out of the window and cursed the policeman who promptly pulled him out and arrested him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23405, 22 July 1939, Page 13
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