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Show RESIDENT ma FOR MIM ARREST CTTER WRITER PERSISTENT LETTE c Rabbl Brn. H..- -f Or--n--- Whlch Gave Large Sum paign Now Asks Halt Returned . . . r ti m. Browne, New York.-Rabb. E. B head of the American Jewish (y E1ders and ovjt rnv iQ nck. K ants, Cal" a' Mrs. Coolidge and Frank Stearns, charged him w Rh noving the president. The Hrcfarsed that the rabbi in-fli in-fli ed upon the complainants an aval-aehe aval-aehe of .ette.'3 -em- in hat he be reimbursed for nail ol p asserts the American Jew.sh Seventy Elders spent in campaign work for President Coolidge last fa 1. Rabbi Browne was arrested by se cret service agents and arraigned in Yorkvllle court. When the rabbi produced apparent-ly apparent-ly authentic letters from former President McKinley, Harrison, Roosevelt Roose-velt and Harding, he was paroled in his own custody, without bail, for examination. The secret service agent testified that the Coolidges and Mr. Stearns had received a great number of letters let-ters from Rabbi Browne demanding that they pay him $12,500 and that they had replied to many of these letters. . Washington The case of Rabbi E. B. M. Browne of New York, charged with annoying President Coolidge, has been handled here by the secret service, which is charged with the personal care of the executive. Efforts were made to settle the case without court action, but it was said that the rabbi would not agree to desist from sending letters to the White House. White House officials expressed surprise that President and Mrs. Coolidge Cool-idge were named as complainants, explaining that the scores of letters which have been received from the rabbi have been referred entirely to under-secretaries at the executive office. of-fice. It was believed, however, that since they were addressed with the complainants' names that this resulted result-ed in mention of the president. Letters from Rabbi Browne have been coming to the White House for many years, officials said. Rabbi Browne claimed he was the only surviving pallbearer at the funeral fu-neral of President Grant and that he had once employed the late President Harding as a private secretary. In 188S, he said, Mr. Harding had just taken over the Marion Star, and the rabbi, who was supporting Benjamin Harrison, brought the Ohioan to New York as his secretary during the campaign. cam-paign. He exhibited a letter signed with President Harding's name, congratulating con-gratulating him upon his birthday and recalling "old times." |