THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 6, 1920

• Joseph Franklin Rutherford & Russellites
• Charges dropped for espionage - WWI
• Pastor Charles Taze Russell followers
• Christian restorationist minister
• Founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses

Page 6 has a somewhat discrete report with small heading:  "Nine Russellites Go Free" (see image)
Complete with 32 pages, light toning at the margins, irregular along the spine, generally in good condition.

Background: The May 6, 1920, edition of The New York Times details the dismissal of wartime espionage charges against Joseph Franklin Rutherford and eight fellow "Russellites" (International Bible Students), a legal resolution that fundamentally rescued the fledgling Christian restorationist movement from institutional collapse. Convicted in 1918 under the strict Espionage Act of 1917 for publishing anti-war literature in The Finished Mystery, Rutherford and his associates had faced 20-year prison sentences before a post-war appellate court ordered a retrial. The government’s decision to officially drop the indictments rather than pursue a peacetime prosecution served as a total exoneration that allowed Rutherford to firmly consolidate his authority over the leaderless followers of late founder Pastor Charles Taze Russell. The significance of this event cannot be overstated: it not only preserved the organization’s leadership at a critical crossroads, but it also catalyzed a transformation from a fractured Bible study group into a highly disciplined global organization—officially renamed Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1931—and established a defensive, legally resilient institutional mindset that would go on to shape landmark First Amendment religious freedom cases in the decades to follow.