The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-21
DEBS FOUND GUILTY.
JUDGE WOODS DECISION IN THE
A. Il. U. CASES.

Heed of the American Railway Union
Given Six Months md Each of the ID.
rectois Three Months in Jail for Their
Part In the Pullman Boycott.
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-"Guilty as charged"
Is the finding announced against Eugene
Dcbs and the other leaders of the great
Pullman boycott. The chief Of the labor
forces now has before him the prospect Of
aterm in the county jail Six months for
President Debs and three months for Vice
President Howard, Secretary Keliher
Treasurer Rogers and Directors Burns,
Elliott, Hogan and Goodwin was i'm
posed. Sentence was suspended in the
case of MacVean. The decision of United
States Judge Woods i'm the contempt pro-
ceedings that have been pending since
last summer against Debs and his asso-
ciates in the American Railway Union,
ms a result of their obstructing trains in de-
Nance of injunctions of the federal courts,
was long and exhaustive one, covering
over ninety pages of closely type:written
paper.
Important I'm It's Bearings.
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portant is it that the case will probably
be taken to the supreme court Of the Unit
cd States for final decision. The defend
ants did not appear particularly crushed
by the punishment, and it was evident
that all had expected much more severe
sentences. Debs instructed his friends to
say nothing for publication setting, them
an example by refusing to discuss the case
at all. After short consultation with their
attorneys they left the court room. At
torney barrow secured stay of execution
for ten days. 1--WE SHALL" said barrow,
take out a writ of habeas corpus before
some court AS to the decision think it
barbarous one, though for the offense
as construed by the court the punishment
was very light and lenient."
The Judge Sets Forth the Charge.
The judge began his opinion with n re-
cital of the facts i'm the case and the claim
Oh The defense that there had been no vio-
lation of the Injunction which was in
valid anyhow, because the court had no
jurisdiction, for one thing. The juris-
diction case is taken up in its order and
argued to the conclusion that there is no
doubt Of the courts jurisdiction, for which
conclusion n number Of authorities are
clteu Inc Judge says OF the charges
against tho Defendants: 1.-The charge
made against the defendants was that
they were engaged in a conspiracy to
hinder and interrupt interstate commerce
and the carriage of the mails upon the
railroads centering in Chicago by means
and in a manner to.constitute, within the
recognized definitions, public nuisance.
Defines the Word NuisaR ce.
"a nuisance is anything that unlaw-
fully worketh hurt, Inconvenience or dam
age "A public nuisance is such an in
convenience or troublesome offense as an
noys the whole community i'm general,
and not merely some particular person.
"A public nuisance is u violation of pub
lie right, either by direct cncroachment
upon public rights or property or by do
ing some act which tends to common
injury. or by emitting to do so some act
which the common good requires, and
which it is the duty of person to do, and
the omission to do which results iniur-
iously to the public" The first two def
nltions were from Blackstone aud the
third from Wood.