Victor L. Berger

CONTENTS.

Placita__.

Order of Feb. 2, 1918, indictment to be filed and cause docketed__.
Indictment

Order of Mar. 23, 1918, granting defendants Germer, Engdahl, Kruse
and Tucker leave to file demurrers and motions to quash, etc‒‒‒
Order of Apr. 9, 1918, extending time to file demurrers, motions, etc----
Order of Oct. 2, 1918, setting cause for hearing on demurrer and plea of
former jeopardy before Judge Evans_

Order of Oct. 17, 1918, approving bond of Victor L. Berger, etc-
Hearing on demurrer, plea and amended plea of defendant A. Germer
Demurrer

Plea of former acquittal---

Indictment against Adolph Germer in U. S. District Court for the
Western District of Michigan, Southern Division_-

Certificates of clerk..

Amendment to plea of former acquittal.......

Order of Oct. 25, 1918, overruling demurrer to indictment, etc----
Order of Nov. 12, 1918, setting cause for trial___.
Order of Nov. 12, 1918, continuing hearing on motion for a change of

venue_-

Order of Nov. 16, 1918, overruling motion for a change of venue, etc----
Order of Nov. 19, 1918, continuing hearing on motion for a bill of par-
ticulars____

Order of Nov. 21, 1918, continuing hearing on motion for a bill of par-
ticulars..

Order of Nov. 27, 1918, sustaining motion for a bill of particulars as to
the 6th paragraph and overruling motion as to the balance_..
Trial__.

Verdict of Jan. 8, 1919_.

Order of Jan. 23, 1919, continuing hearing on motion for a new trial---
Order of Jan. 25, 1919, that affidavit of Thomas Nixon and draft of
affidavit be impounded with the clerk of the court, etc..
Affidavit of Thomas C. Nixon___

Memorandum of Thomas C. Nixon_

Motion for new trial_

Order of Feb. 3, 1919, continuing hearing on motion for new trial....
Order of Feb. 4, 1919, continuing hearing on motion for new trial.
Order of Feb. 11, 1919, continuing hearing on motion for new trial___.

Order of Feb. 20, 1919, overruling motion for new trial and motion in
arrest of judgment..

Sentence and judgment of Feb. 20, 1919_.

Order of Mar. 25, 1919, enlarging time to file bill of exceptions__

Order of Apr. 18, 1919, enlarging time to file bill of exceptions....

Order of May 23, 1919, enlarging time to file bill of exceptions_-_

Order of May 23, 1919, setting date for hearing on motion for approval
of bill of exceptions--

Order of May 26, 1919, extending time to file bill of exceptions.
Order of May 15, 1919, extending time to file bill of exceptions____.
Bill of exceptions, filed Apr. 12, 1919:

Demurrer

Plea of former acquittal___

Indictment against Adolph Germer in U. S. District Court for the
Western District of Michigan, Southern Division__.

Certificates of clerk-----

Amended plea of former acquittal.

Decision of the court__

Stenographic report of proceedings had Nov. 1, 1918, in case of United

States vs. August Weissensel...

Defendants' request for bill of particulars--

Statement as to the times and places of speeches made by any of the defendants, etc.--.

Evidence on behalf of the Government:

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297

Proclamation of National Committee of Aug. 12, 1914_.
Resolution on immediate action of Aug. 14, 1914_

Resolution of May, 1915, on Lusitania crisis_
Resolution addressed to President Wilson_..

Resolution introduced in Congress by Meyer London__
Mexican Resolution___-.

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330,357

Testimony of Marie Ray---.

Testimony of John Louis Engdahl__

Article headed "Down with the War," etc., from American

Socialist of Aug. 8, 1914..

Bill of exceptions-Continued.

Evidence on behalf of the defendants-Continued.
Testimony of John Louis Engdahl-Continued.

Article headed "Workers of Germany, France and England
Must Halt War" from American Socialist of Aug. 8,
1914

Official Anti-War Proclamation of German Socialists---
Proclamation of Austrian Socialists.

Page.

333

334

Proclamation of British Socialists entitled "British Ask All

to Stand Together for Peace".

335

War article of the French Socialists_

336

Article by J. Ramsey MacDonald headed "Rivals in Com-
merce. So Bloody War Came".

336

Text of Karl Liebknecht's Written Protest Against War,
from American Socialist of Dec. 9, 1914.

337

Article headed "Liebknecht Called to the Colors" from
American Socialist of May 29, 1915

338

Letter, July 8, 1917, Hillard to Engdahl__
Letter, July 10, 1917, Dill to Engdahl__
Letter, Aug. 20, 1917, Gronna to Engdahl_
Letter, July 14, 1917, to Engdahl_.

Webster's speech from American Socialist of June 30th---.
Article headed "Hoover's Efforts to Bring Belgians' Diet
Here Exposed" from American Socialist of June 30, 1917-
Letter, June 16, 1917, Hoover to Engdahl_.
Letter, June 20, 1917, Engdahl to Hoover
Editorial from New York Examiner of July 20, 1917, enti-
tled "Upon the Freedom of Speech and Press Depend Lib-
erties of the American People