Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-02
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPIIIC NEWS
The Coxey Case in Court.

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WASHINGTON, May Carl Browne,
chief marshal of the Commonweal, and
Christopher Columbus Jones, the lead
er of the Philadelphia contingent, were
placed on trial at the Washington city
police court this morning, on charges
of violating the United States statutes
and of interfering with an arrest.
Browne had been released on bail last
night and looked fresh and smiling
while Jones was anything but cheerful
after night on the hard bench Of a
cell.
Judge Miller opened court at $40.
Among those inside the bar were Con-
gressmen Baker, of Kansas; LATE Pence,
of Colorado; Boen, of Minnesota, and
Ken, of Nebraska, and Adjutant Cen
eral Tarsney, of Colorado. a young
lawyer named Hyman represented the
defendants, and Mr.. Alexander Null
lowneY, assistant district attorney, rep
rented the government.
The clerk read the information which
charged that zone Jacob S. Coxey did
unlawfully enter the Z. s. Capitol
grounds and display there a banner
and "did injure certain plants and
shrubs in said grounds"
Coxey, who was present, saved the
fomality of serving the warrant by say
ing that he surrendered voluntarily.
The information against Browne and
Jones was also read after they and
Coxey had pleaded mot guilty" They
all elected to be tried before jury.
Lawyer LYMAN told The court that he
was not ready to proceed with the
cases to-day, and it was finally ar
ranged that the trial should take place
Friday The question of bail took up
some time Judge Miller read the stat
ute covering the oi!ense charged, and
said hat as line Of $1oo could be i'm
posed or confinement in jail for sixty
days inflicted, the defendants would
have to furnish 500 bonds each
"Mr. Coxey desires me to ask your
honor if your honor will take $500 in
cash. said Hyman No answered
Judge Miller curtIy
Browne left the court room immedi-
atcly after tbe arrangement was finished,
but Coxey and Jones were allowed to
remain in the room, instead of being
taken to a cell, until the bond which
they were expecting was forthcoming.
Shortly after IL o'clock Mr.. Frank
Hume n wholesale grocer, gave bond
for Coxey and Jones and they We're
5hcn released. Browne furnished bail
iast night.
Coxey afterwards said that he was
going back to the camp as quick as ne
could get there. He said he did not
know what to expect in the way of an
acqaittal. "Tho people who have the
money" he said, "have all the power
and we can't expect to get show. !
have made no programme ~ to what
l shall do even if l DO get off No, |
don't know whether l shall go to the
Capitol again or not"
"Do you feel disappointed ?"
we have to take things as We find
them, and then wc did not know to
what extent the plutocrats would CO."
Major Moore, the chief Of police, had
3 long conference to-day with Private
Secretary Thurber with reference TO
the police arrangements for the protec-
sion c: the White House during the
stay of Coxey's army in Washington.
1t was decided to keep the additional
policemen on duty in and about the
mansion for the present.
No members of the Commonweal
army visited the White House to-day,
although no objection would have been
made to their doing SO. Two seedy
men wearing the badge of the Com
monweal entered the grounds this
morning, but contented themselves
with merely gazing at the mansion.