Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — First Slacker Tried Got All There Was. [ARTICLE]

First Slacker Tried Got All There Was.

George Kramer, the first man to be arrested and convicted under the United States law for opposing the conscription laws and failing to register, was given the maximum' sentence by Judge Mayer in the U. S. court in New York. The judge recommended that Kramer be deported when he has served his sentence. He was sentenced to one year in the Atlanta prison and fined >I,OOO for failure to register.