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Show BRIDGE DYNAMITER HAS TAKEN APPEAL Says Court Erred in Denying His Release Re-lease on a Writ of Habeas Corpus. BOSTON, Sept. 27. Werner Horn, the German army reservist, who tried to blow up the international bridge between Canada and the United States at Vance-boro, Vance-boro, Me., last February, today filed an appeal from the decision of the federal court in denying his release on a writ of habeas corpus. Through his counsel, former Congressman Congress-man Joseph F. O'Connell, the prisoner questions the regularity of the extradition extradi-tion proceedings by which he was removed re-moved from Maine to this state and also the refusal of the court to permit him to Invoke the law of nations, or present a commission as an officer In the German army in defense of his actions. The appeal will be heard by the federal fed-eral circuit court of appeals, which begins be-gins a sitting here next Monday. In the meantime, Horn will remain In the East Cambridge jail, where he is awaiting trial on the indictment charging him with illegal il-legal ( ransportation of dynamite from New York to Vanceboro. |