At the Central Criminal Court yesterday week Frederick Schwelm and William Mertens, compositors, were charged with publishing seditious libels in the Freiheit. Mertens was released on bail, in consequence of the absence of an important witness for the prosecution. Schwelm was found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. As he was leaving the dock he shouted, "Now for the social revolution."

Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.43