. History of German immigration in the United States and successful German-Americans and their descendants . rs who charged two hundredto three hundred per cent on loans on furnitureto poor people were another sensation, he win-ning over three hundred of these cases for thepoor victims t Shylock money lenders on chattelmortgages, which were declared illegal by the COUrtS ami most of the usurers he drove out tthe business. Idle habeas corpus case of (.aidWerner, whom he had broughl from Sing Sine? Prison to this city, and in which he ex-posed to the public the cruelty practised ii pris^Oners in
. History of German immigration in the United States and successful German-Americans and their descendants . rs who charged two hundredto three hundred per cent on loans on furnitureto poor people were another sensation, he win-ning over three hundred of these cases for thepoor victims t Shylock money lenders on chattelmortgages, which were declared illegal by the COUrtS ami most of the usurers he drove out tthe business. Idle habeas corpus case of (.aidWerner, whom he had broughl from Sing Sine? Prison to this city, and in which he ex-posed to the public the cruelty practised ii pris^Oners in the prison, viz.: the dark cell, hangingup of prisoners in handcuffs, flogging and de priving them of eating, etc. In the Congressionalinvestigation of [888 in this city he exposed thecontract system of bringing musicians to Americaunder contract 1 play in street hands and t herelumed I Germany at the end of contract andthe bringing over of criminals; as a result laws have been enacted prohibiting their being im-ported, lie also represented the New York City• hands, so imported, before the Board of. SUCCESSFUL GERMAN-AMERICANS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS 259 Aldermen investigation and succeeded in havingordinances passed prohibiting the playing ofbands in the streets of New York. An-other sensation was created at the time thatthe Chicago anarchists, who were to be hung forthe killing of the police at the Hay Market inChicago, 111., when he produced the confessionof a firebug then in States Prison at SingSing, claiming that a person not arrested or con-victed had thrown the bomb; that the men con-victed were innocent. The entire press of theUnited States backed up this sensation and werekept busy by it for weeks after that. In 1886he was the Republican candidate for Congress inthe Ninth Congressional District in New York,running against S. S. Cox (Sunset Cox), and al-though only four days in the field was only de-feated by a very small majority. As a soldier,in addition to being a
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