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ond edition of the Nothruf also was published in Hamburg, and a
third edition of the Garantieen, the latter selling 1,000 copies.
Meantime, its author also contributed a daily article to a local
paper, for which he was paid ten marks a week. Among his de
voted co-workers at this point in his career were a shoemaker,
named Bögenitz of Hamburg; the paper hanger Starke, with
whom he lived; and Conrad Schramm of Crefeld, who had de
serted to the United States to escape military service and had re
turned with an American passport.^12
In August, 1 849, the Hamburg police decided to move against
the harmless litterateur in their midst. A deputation of Hamburg
workmen appealed to the Senate of the city to let this "quiet,
peaceful, harmless man of learning" alone, and petitions to the
same effect were presented by half a dozen German societies.
Nevertheless, Weitling was given orders to move on. When the
police arrived to search his room they found that their quarry had
fled. It was on this occasion that they confiscated two trunks full
of papers and books, including the manuscript for the Gerechtig¬
keit already referred to. Fortunately, a box containing 350 copies
of the Garantieen which had been dispatched to Leipzig escaped
confiscation. Weitling's address book showed that he was sending
copies of his publications to Paris, Lübeck, Kiel, Breslau, Frank
furt, Leipzig, and other German and Swiss cities, and that his cor
respondents at the time included Bakunin, Kriege, Stephan Born,
Edgar Bauer, Mathilda Anneke, Herwegh, and scores of other
wise unknown craftsmen, including several from Poughkeepsie,
Cincinnati and St. Louis. Starke, the paper hanger who had har
bored Weitling in his home, decided it would be best for him to go
to London, where he continued to operate as a member of a com
munist group under the name of F. Geyer.
Weitling proceeded via London to the United States. He never
saw his native land again. In New York, he made one last enthusi-
(^12) Wermuth and Stieber, Die Communisten-Verschwörung, II, 137; and A.
Vandermenien, Enthüllungen aus der höheren Region der politischen Spionage
(Berlin, 1862), 92-100.