Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-19 | Page 3 | Judge Clayton Makes a Drastic Ruling in Cases

I Judge Clayton Makes a Drastic Ruling in Cases NEW YORK, Oct. 18 An attempt by counsel for five men and a woman, charged with distributing alleged seditious se-ditious literature, to make authenticity authentici-ty of the committee on public Information's Informa-tion's "Sisson papers" an fssue in their defense came to naught through a ruling rul-ing by Judge Clayton In the federal court. In refusing to permit questioning of Raymond Robins, head of the American Ameri-can Red Cross mission to Russia, as to his knowledge of the Sisson papers, the court held that all such questions were immaterial. "I have enough to do to try these defendants without trying Lenine and Trotzky. too," Judge Clayton remarked, remark-ed, adding that the justice or injustice injus-tice of the Bolsheviki cause had nothing noth-ing to do with the alleged offense of the sextet on trial in slurring the president pres-ident and criticizing the government in connection with American activities in Russia." oo