The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-25

| Omaha, Neb., April 24.-Edward Rose
water, editor of the Bee, was today sem
fenced to Imprisonment for thirty days
and to pay a fine of $500 for alleged
contempt of court.
Without being given an opportunity
to appeal, Mr.. Rosewater was ordered
taken to Jail at once, and for six hours
he was behind the bars of the Douglas
county Jail.
At p. m. the state supreme court
granted a superSedeas and Mr.. Rose
water was released until the case can
be reviewed by the higher court.
How it Came About.
The alleged offense committed by Mr..
Rosewater was in allowing to be printed
in the Bee, a local article in which it
was stated that there was evidently
some Partially shown TO certain crirni-
nails in the district court, as Of two
men caught robbing a railroad depot.
the poor man was sentenced to prison
land the son of wealthy parents was
given his liberty without the case COM
ing to rial.
The facts in the case were not denied.
but Judge C.. r. Scott, who had dis
missed the case in question. felt ag-
grieved at the word 'pull,' used in
the article, and had the reporter who
wrote the matter brought before him
for contempt.
After a disgraceful scene in court, the
reporter was sent UP for thirty days,
and then Judge Scott concluded to ar
raign the editor of the paper on the
same charge. As Judge Scott has been.
most bitter and vindictive political
enemy Of Mr.. Rosewater, it was gem
orally believed that the action taken
was for personal spite. The case was
called for hearing today. and nearly the
whole bar of Douglas county and hun
dreds Of citizens were present in court
] to listen to the proceedings.
ROsewater ROasts the Judge.
Evidence was introduced to show
| that Mr.. Rosewater knew nothing of
the article complained of; that he was
not in the Office on the date of it's pub
! lication; that he had not directed the
matter, and, in fact, was entirely igno-
rant that an article of any such nature
was about to appear. In spite of the
evidence, Judge Scott declared the de-
PENDANT guilty, and after giving him a
severe tongue flashing that provoked
some demonstration from the auditors,
/ the judge started to impose sentence
without giving Mr.. RoSeWater an OPP
pcrtunity to be heard.
! But the editor proposed to have his
rights and he interrupted the court
with a demand that ne be heard. This
/
Mr.. Rosewater insisted and after much
confusion he said:
IF men who own property, who run
corporations, who employ men in var
| ious walks of life, if these men were
! held responsible for the criminal con-
/ duct of all their employees, there would
not be jails enough in America to ac-
| commodate them. It is a monStrous
! doctrine. I had rather rot in forty
| jaiIs and prisons than to surrender
what has been fought for by the faith
ers of this republic, which includes
the liberty of the press to criticise pub
! lie servants-and the courts are public
! servants as much as any other class,
/ from representatives in the legislative
/ halls in the capitol at Lincoln or Wash
/ ington.
More Contempt of Court.
81 shall cheerfully submit to this or
deal. 1t will not hurt me. If there is
anything that L am guilty Of, if have
been guilty of any contempt at all, is
helping Colonel Scott to become judge
of this district"
/ At the conclusion of Mr.. RoseWater'S
talk. Judge Scott ordered the sheriff to
hurry the prisoner to the county Jail
| to serve out the sentence of thirty days.
1t is the general belief of lawyers
that the finding of the court will be
overturned by the supreme court when
the case comes up for review.
No court proceedings held in this city
for years has caused so many express
sions of condemnat ton directed at the
court.
The sentence was the chief topic of
discussion in the city today.