The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-12
ONE PAROLE rs BROKEN
The Marshal Sends Deputies
to Arrest the Missing
Leader.
OTHERS ARE NOW ON THE WAY.
Howard VIII Not Serve In the Same
Jail With His Former Asso-
CiateS.

CHICAGO, ILL, June 11.-Five of the
officers of the American Railway Union
returned to Woodstock jail on the $40
P. NJ. train. President E. Y. Debs failed to
report in time for the train. He called on
the Marshal at noon and was requested to
report at o'clock at the Marshals office
with the others or at the Northwestern
station at o'clock.
Messrs. Rogers, Keliher, Burns, Hogan
and Goodwin saw their chief but an in
slant at noon and they could not account
for his failure to report. Debs told the
Marshal that he had considerable business
to transact, but he would be through in
time to take the train. Deputies Logan
and Curran boarded the train with the
five men who had reported and Deputy
Clark returned to the MarshaPs Office with
Debs' commitment papers.
The Marshal was vexed at the failure of
Debs to report on time and he sent three
men to look for him.
Bring him in wherever you find him, F"
was the MarshaI's order to his deputies.
81 do not think he has purposely missed
the train" said the Marshal, ''yet his fail
ure to report on time is annoying. 1t
places Mr.. Debs in bad light. l paroled
him until O'Clock, and he should have
been here. If he is found tonight he will
remain in my Office until train time in the
morning"
Martin ]. Elliott, the seventh man, wired
that he was on his way to Chicago from
Harrisburg, Pa, and would be in some
time during the night. When the party
was first sent to jail Elliott was two days
behind in reaching Chicago from the East.
Owing to Debs' failure to report George
w. Howard secured another days respite.
Howard, who has quarreled with his
former associates and established rival
organization, desired to serve his sentence
separate from the others, and the desire
was mutual. To-day Judge Woods wired
Judge Showalter to transfer Howard from
the Woodstock jail to the county Jail at
Joliet.
Marshal Arnold intended taking Howard
there on the o'clock train tonight, but
Debs' absence gave Howard another night
with his family.
The commitment papers were made out
for six months in the Debs case and three
months in each of the others, less seven
teen days served from January to Janu-
airy "a, in the Woodstock jail. The COM
mitment was made on the interstate com
MERGE contempt.
The men are so sure that Judge Woods
will recorder the Santa Fe sentence to be
concurrent that they give themselves no
concern on the probability of having 20
serve double time.
Up to late hour tonight Debs had not
returned. Marshal Arnold sent all the
available detectives of his Office in search
for the missing prisoner, but not a trace
Of him was found.
The Marshal does not believe that Debs
may have run away, and he is inclined to
think that Debs will make his appearance
at the Woodstock jail tomorrow.
Debs' bondsmen are no longer liable for
his return, as he surrendered himself to
the Marshal at noon and that act relieved
him of his bond.
Deputy Marshals Logan and Curran re-
turned from Woodstock at a late hour.
Debs had not reached there on the late
train. One Of the special deputies in search
of Debs learned late tonight that Debs was
last seen at $3.50 o'clock in company with
w. 2. Morrissey, the newly elected chief
of the order of Railway Trainmen, and
that they were on their way to the
Marshal's office.