St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-06
DEBS' CASE IS UP.
Judge Woods Presides in the
Proceedings in Con-
tempt.
i "
TRIAL BY JURY REFUSED.
Those Incendiary kilograms
Prove to Be Quite In
offensive.
DEBS APPEARS IN COURT.
H.
II
Yesterdays Testimony Very
Much in Favor Of the
e Strikers.
DEBS APPEARS IN COURT.

CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-The hearing, OF
the contempt case against President
Debs and other officers of the A. K. u,
which was discontinued on July %. was
taken up by Judge Woods. of the Unit
ed States circuit court this morning.
Special Counsel Edwin Walker, for
the government, announced a filing of a
supplemental bill OF information. which
was read by eX-District Attorney Mil
christ. Attorney Gregory. for the de-
rense, moved for a trial by jury. which
was temporarily overruled by Judge
Woods.
After the reading of the answer of the
defendants to the supplemented bill,
the taking of testimony was begun. e.
A. milford Jr., Western Union Tele-
graph company manager, was called,
and produced a collection OF over 5000
kilograms bearing on the situation of the
strike. The defense bitterly objected
to the adinittance of tue kilograms, but
Judge Woods finally admitted them.
Dozens were read, and when the famous
"Save your money and buy a gun"
message was reached. 1t was found that
it also contained the words: Tell
Ellie | am WE'LL" showing 1t to be a
private telegram. Attorney Gregory
took occasion to denounce the proSecu-
zion for giving the inco mplete message
for publication. Judge Woods said that
he did not consider that the alleged
garbling of the dispatch amounted to
much.
when l read that telegram in the
papers" said the court, Il did not attach
much Importance to it, as it did not ap-
pear particularly incendiary." 1t was
shown that
Debs Had Nothing to Do.
with the sending of the buy a gun"
dispatch and that it was sent by a
subordinate and after the reading Of
other kilograms. MIR. milford was
temporarily excused, and John Bren-
mock. a city contractor took the stand.
During his hearing President Debs
entered the court room. He was pale
from his illness, and seemed scarcely
able to stand alone. Mr.. Debs had not
expected to be present at today's pro-
ceedings, and left his bed against his
physicians orders.
Mr.. BrennOck related how the Pam
handle railroad was unable 10 move
several cars of dead animals on account
of the strike, when witness called on
h 'mayOr, who sent a man with him to
see Debs, who gav him a note to tue
Panhandle road 10 the effect that should
the, Panhandle people move the dead
animal cars they would not be inter.
fered with. "The Panhandle people
paid nc attention to this" said the wit
ness. After waiting some days he
finailyihad the cars moved with the as.
sistance OF the police. Recess until 2
O'Clock.
Debs' Tclegrams.
When court reconvened this after
noon Mr.. milford resumed the witness
stand and continued to read kilograms.
1t was found that the original kilograms
in most cases were in typewriting with
the name of Mr.. Debs printed out. Part
of them were written In a rather school
boy hand, which the witness was sure
could not be Mr.. Debs'. He said he
knew Mr.. Debs' handwriting. and out
of more than 100 kilograms ex-
amined he picked out two during
the day which MIR. milford said be-
out the testimony that a person who
held a frank like Mr.. Debs' was only
compelled to present the signature the
first time. when it was registered. and
the telegram receivers after that sent
all the messages brought to them signed
by that name without knowing who
wrote them. One of the dispatches said
to be III Mr.. Debs' hand writing was as
follows:
ITO Lee Metz, Nation, ILL.,: Tie up
Big Four. Tied up at Cairo and Gin
cinnati. Other points will be tied up
today. We are gaining ground, and
success is certain. E. V. DEBS."
AT s o'clock court adjourned until
tomorrow morning. when Mr.. milford
will continue his testimony.