A HOSTILE WITNESS
CHARGE AGAINST BRIDGES CASE FOR THE DEFENCE SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7. (Received Aug. 8, at 11 p.m.) Mr Richard Gladstein, counsel for the defence, to-day contended that the case against Bridges was not prepared by the Government. He said it was prepared in an improper manner and then presented to the prosecution and taken into court. Harper Knowles,. an American Legion anti-radical leader, who was treated as a hostile witness, admitted that Stanley Doyle, a Legion official, rigged up a recording device in Bridges's hotel room. Judge Landis commented: "This might be nice, but it was improper." Knowles denied that shippers and other employers were backing his committee or that he conspired with Portland and Seattle immigration officials to secure Bridges's deportation.
Judge Landis declared that aliens could not necessarily be deported because they were undesirable, although they could if they advocated overthrow of the Government by force. "The fact that a hen is a chicken does not mean that a chicken is a hen, nor is an alien deportable because he wears an orange tie on St. Patrick's Day."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 9
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