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The papers consist of letters, legal papers, notes, and miscellaneous papers concerning New York vs. Alexander Derkach, Ivan Novikoff, and Leon Bobkin, 1918. Derkach, Novikoff, and Bobkin were charged with criminal anarchy for printing and distributing a pamphlet "Kolokol" (The Bell), which advocated overthrow of the United States Government. Weinberger succeeded in having the case dismissed because the state could not prove that the defendents believed in or taught the ideas advocated in the pamphlet.