Stenerman

It is alleged in the amended complaint that Wolf Stenerman, the plaintiff (sometimes spelled Stillerman or Shtilerman), was naturalized on April 27, 1928, in an Illinois state court. On April 11, 1933, while incarcerated in a Chicago jail, he signed a document prepared by an officer of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in which it is stated that Stenerman’s naturalization was obtained in violation of law in that he was not a person of good moral character attached to the principles of the United States Constitution, and that neither he nor his two witnesses disclosed his criminal record which was extensive. In the document it is further said:

Eleven months later the United States Attorney filed an action under § IS of the Immigration and Naturalization Act" of June 29, 1906, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to cancel Stenerman’s citizenship, attaching the above mentioned document to the complaint. The required order as to personal or constructive notice was requested in the complaint. The next day after the filing of the action, the court, acting on the contents of the document, deemed that notice was unnecessary and that Sten-…