Legner later sued the "Arbeiter-Zeitung" for libel for repeating Spies’ claim of bribery, denying he was told to leave town. Legner said he asked Spies before leaving the city if he should testify and was told he would not be needed. The "Arbeiter-Zeitung" agreed to print a retraction. In the early 1900s Hippolyte Havel, a Czech anarchist from Austria-Hungary edited the newspaper. He had met Emma Goldman in London and returned with her from Europe. In Chicago, he lived in her household shared with Mary and Abe Isaak for a while. He later moved to New York, where he continued to edit anarchist papers. The library of the University of Cincinnati has several years' holdings of the "Arbeiter-Zeitung" on microfilm in its German-Americana Collection.