The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-06-14
DEBS BROKE HIS Word
Failed To Return To Be
Taken to Jail.
The Marshal Was Vexed When the
A. r. U. Leader Was Not on Time.
Reported That He Put in Appear.
ance This Morning. Mam.
bers Surrendered and Go to Jail

Chicago, June 12.-Six Of the Ameri-
can Railway union directors, without
their famous leader, Eugene V. Debs.
were taken to the county Jail at Wood
stock Ill, last evening by three deputy
United States marshals to serve the re-
mainder of their sentences of three
months each for contempt of the federal
courts injunction during the great rail
road strike.
nrbs' Alb ence Caused Surprise.
The prisoners were keliher, Rodgers.
Elliott Ijurns, Hogan and Goodwin
The absence OF Debs caused much talk
am n, his colleagues and the officers of
the law, as 4 was confidently expected
that he would keep his promise to Mr..
Arnold to appear at h. office at 4 O'Clock
in the afternoon anG surrender his lib
erty. He not only did hot appear at the
marshafs office but he failed to be at
the depot, although he knew what time
the train started.
Vexed the Marshal.
The marshal, as the responsible officer.
was vexed, but was not afraid that the
A. R. U. would evade arrest. AS the
party was leaving for the depot the
marshal said: "Debs told me he had
some business to attend to and to see
a few trends If he does not turn up at
once l will send him along on the next
train"
Debs in a Jolly Mood.
Debs arrived in the city from his homo
at Terre Haute in the morning and went
at once to the marsAal's Office, arriving
there at 1130 He was in Jolly frame
of mind and carried a bulging valise,
which he left in care of the marshal when
he went away in company of friend.
He talked to the United Press reporter
in jocular mood about spending his
vacation" and said he was glad he
would be taken back to the Woodstock
Jail.
Phelan To Be Acting President.
''As matter of course" he added,
sits disagreeable, but l have become
philosophical. By the authority vested
in me have deputized Frank V. Phelan,
OF st. Louis, formerly a conductor, to
act as president of the railway union in
my absence. The business which is
usually transacted by the board Of A.
r. g. directors will be done by US from
our place Of confinement and there will
be quorum always"
will Edit the Papernin Jail
The editing of the official A. r. U.
paper will be continued by Debs in Jail,
and the work of organizing throughout
the coantfy viii he done by q new corps,
which was appointed by the directors be-
fore they left for Woodstock.
Howard Taken TO Joliet.
George Howard, vice president of the
A. r. y, preferred to spend the remain
der Of his three months sentence apart
from his former colleagues, on account
of the strained relations due to his con-
nectfon with the rival organization, the
American Industrial union. He was
taken to the county jail at Joliet this
morning. All the men have served six
teen days, and their sentences are three
months each, with the exception of Debs,
which is six months
Debs Still Absent This Morning.
Early this morning it was announced
at the Office of the United States mar
shal that Debs had net reported there
but that his whereabouts were known
to deputies who had been sent to find
him, and the marshal had no fear of any
Iattempt to escape, Later it was said
that Debs had reported to the marshal.