The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-09
ROUGH ON TWO |NBuSIR|ALS,
Vinette Rearrested on a Charge
of Inciting to Riot.
Pinther Sentenced to Jail and to Pay
q Heavy Fine.
San Bsrnardino Keeps mp an Active
Campaign Against tho Local
Admirers of Gonersl
Coxey.

Special to the HERALD.
SAN BERNARDINo, May 8.-Colonel
Vinette and his seven comrades OF the
Industrial army were resrrested today
upon a complaint charging them with
melting mob. They were thereupon
taken before Judge Knox and bail was
fixed at $l00 each. Failing to give bail,
the Judge remsnded them to the custo-
dy OF the sheriff, and next Thursday at
10 a. m. YVES fixed for them to plead.
1t will therefore make but little differ
ence whether or not these men are re-
leased upon habess corpus before the
Los Angeles superior court tomorrow.
If discharged by the court they will still
be Held in custody by the sheriff on the
later charge.
PINTHER PUNISHED.
Theodore Pinther was arrested in Los
Angeles yesterday and brought to this
city and lodged in Jail. He WAS charged
with contempt OF court for sending the
following telegram to Judge Otis of the
superior court of this county:
Los ANGELES, CAL, May l.
Judge Superior Court. care Louis Luckel:
Mass meeting i've hundred citizens,
comprising home guard InduEtrial army,
demand release of Arthur Vinette and
other officers held against their censtitu-
tional rights. THEo PINTHER,
Secretary.
This morning large crowd of specta-
tors gathered in Judge Otis court room
to listen to the contempt proceedings.
At half past 8 O'Clock Pinther came into
the room in charge Of an officer. He ia
man over six feet in height, straight,
with head and shoulders we'll thrown
back. Ag he stepped up to the bar OF
justice he bore an anxious but semi
defiant air and seemed q bit nervous.
He is an Austrian and speaks English
ipaperfectly and apparently never had
very much OF an education. At
tornsy Dunlap of Los Angeles
appeared in behalf of defend
ant. When placed upon the witness
stand on his own behalf Pinther stated
hs wrote the telegram while acting as
secretary of meeting OF 500 persons in
Los Angeles, sympsthizers of the Indue-
trial army, but said he did not intend to
threaten or intimidste the court or in.
terfere with it in its judicial capacity.
rendered an elaborate opinion. ceuched
in we'll chosen words, sentencing Pin
Their to FIVE days in Jail and to pay a fine
of 5000, and remanded the prisoner to
the custody OF the sheriff.
NOT AN ANARCHIST.
The following letter from Theodore
Pinther will appear in tomorrow's Times
Iadex:
SAN BERNARDNo, May Z, 1894.
Editors Times-Index:
GENTLEMEN :-Inotieed in today issue
of your paper your editorial about the
surrender Of Theodore Pinther, the
Anarchist" Please permit me to state
that / am no anarchist, never was and
never will be. l have never joined an
anarchist club or society, have no friends
among them, and oppose all anarchistic
theories as criminal. Anarchists advo-
cate destruction, while always sdvo-
Gated construction and building up Of
society and civilization, crowned by hu-
manitarian or brctherly love. am q
Populist, aud even a Nationalist, and
net ashamed of my political and social
faith. But / ana not willing to lend my
name to other ''isms." Very respect
fully yours, THEo PINTHER.