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The Web : $b The Authorized History of the American Protective League
Hough, Emerson
American Protective League; Propaganda, German; World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- United States
Pauline, the office girl, hearing Weiss’s remark and fearing
trouble for the teacher, ran to the school and related what she
had heard, so that in case Weiss came to the school to demand
the children, the teacher would be prepared for him. Pauline was
right, as Weiss refused to wait for the coming of his children
and left Mrs. Hartrum, going to the school and demanding that
the children be turned over to him immediately. He was told that
school was just being dismissed and that he should wait at the
door for the children and could get them as they came out. When he
at last obtained possession of the children he took them toward
the Home and was met at the gate by Pauline, who told him that
Mrs. Hartrum had requested that he bring the children in that she
might change their clothes, as they were wearing the uniform of
the Home. Weiss struck at Pauline, saying: “I’ll knock you down
and slap your face if you don’t keep still.”
Pauline rushed into the house to tell Mrs. Hartrum and Weiss
followed closely behind her.
“I want my children and I want them now,” said Weiss.
“You can have them as soon as I take them to their room and change
their clothes,” replied Mrs. Hartrum.
“You will not take them from this room. I’m G— d——d tired of this
red tape business, I’m not going to wait, and don’t you dare to
take these children from this office.”
Mrs. Hartrum replied that she would take them to their room and
change their clothes and then bring them back. Whereupon Weiss
pushed Mrs. Hartrum backwards and she fell into a chair, her head
striking a table nearby, and he then struck her as she lay on the
floor, took his children and hurried down the street to a Fifth
Street car.
Mrs. Hartrum screamed. Her cries were heard by an attendant in
the yard, who came to her assistance, but Weiss had fled. The
attendant got into an automobile and followed the street car, and
when Weiss alighted uptown with his children, he was arrested by
the traffic policeman, the story of Weiss having been previously
related to him by the attendant.
Weiss was taken to police headquarters, the proper authorities
were notified, and after a thorough investigation his parole
was annulled and he was again committed to the Federal jail.
Investigation showed that Weiss was really an anarchist at heart,
and on the same day the assault was committed upon Mrs. Hartrum,
the following advertisement appeared in the Dayton Journal:
WANTED—Dayton men and women out of work to send names and
addresses to FRANK WEISS, Post Office, Box 387, to form a
union to get Justice to make the American workman’s home a
decent place to live in.
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