The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-12-03
SENTENCE SUSPENDED.

Judge Scott, of the Illinois Supreme Court,
Grants a Supersedeas in the Case of the
Condemned Anarchists-They Are Given
ETOre Time.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill, Nov. 26.-At eleven
o'clock yesterday morning Judge Scott
granted supersedeas in the anarchists
cases. AIessrs. Black, SWEET and Solomon
started at once to Ottawa to have the clerk
i5sus thB order in pursuance to Judge
ScotPs instructions. Judge SCOTS 6rdet
granting the supersedeas is purely formal.
Without going into. any particulars or Civ
ing any reasons he simply certifes that in
his opinion there is reasonable ground for
granting the writ. The effect of the order
for sOpersedeas will be to delay the
execution until thB full bench Of the SIT
preme Court shall have passed upon the
questions raised. 1t is estimated that in
the ordinary course of procedure, the hear
ing and decision can not be reached for six
or eight weeks; and. that even thgBgh th8
lover court should be sustained sbntene6
could not be carried ont until some time i'll
March or April .........
GD0tNDs FOR tIE WRIT. ..
CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-Tne points iHgIs III
the brief in behalf of the anarchists which
the attorneys desire to argue before the
Supreme COart are the ones raised during
the trial and argued before Judge Gary on
the motion fer new trial; that the judge
allowed Jurors 10 try the case WHO Rad
formed opinions; that he had ruled that a
juror under examination was not disquali-
fed even though lie had a fixed opinion at
the time Of examination; that it would re-
quire evidence to OveIcome a jurors word,
provided lie would swear that he could rem
der an impartial verdict; that where the
| proposed jurors had admitted prejudice
or bias against socialists, anarchists or com
| munisIs, the judge refused to allow the
counsel for the defendants to ask whether
| the prejudice was such as to materially
affect the weight they would accord to the
cfidence Of tile dBfendants il, it should ap'
pear that they, or some o. th9ti, Nsre
socialists, anarchists or communists; and
that the judge had refused TO allow a chal-
lengC for cause on account of SUcd pTeju
dice.
Il was further alleged that the baiIiff Sc
lected men unfavOrable to the defendants
so that their peremptOry challenges might
/ be the sooner exhausted; that in giving IN
/ structORs the court proceeded upon the
/ erroneous theory that the defendants might
/ be convicted without the State being obliged
/ by legal evidence; to identify the principal
/ or to show that the defendants had advised
! or even had knowledge of the Commiss OI
tL LtlC pdl LiGt4id1 tlSt ny tIlO ipe4a Via
/ the court refused 10 give an instruction
/ allowing the Jury to consider whether 81
/ unknown bomb thrown might not have
thrown the bomb under some Sudden pro
vocation by reason of the supposed unlaW
/ full attack of the police upon peaceable
! lawful assemblage; that there could be nC
conviction Of an accessory withoutthe identi
tication Of the principal; and that the iii
struction given by Judge Gary of his owl
motion, in which he had undertaken t
summarize and coHdenSe ali the instruction.
in the case, was improper and fatally de
fectiTe
The news was received by the condemnet
men quietly, wiki some expressions 0
| pleasure, bat few Of surprise. They treated
the supeTseGsas as a matter of course, am
said little except to intimate an increasing
belief that the Illinois Supreme COur
would grant them new trial, thOdgh the
admitted having been still more contiden
that Judge Gary's rulings would be in thei
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