Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1919 — BERGER FOUND GUILTY. [ARTICLE]

BERGER FOUND GUILTY.

Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee politician and publisher, and the only Socialist ■ elected last fall to the Sixtysixth congress, and four other national leaders of the Socialist party, were found guilty of sedition and disloyalty under the espionage act by a jury in Judge Landis’ court late Wednesday. Berger’s conviction bars him from congress.