The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-12
He Promised the Marshal 10 Go
To Prison Yesterday.
AND THEN FAILED TO SHOW UP.
Six of the other 4. Il. L. Officers
Ready TO Begin Their Terms.
Three Men set Ont to Seek DehS, Rut
Are Unable to Find Uim-Seveu
Prisoners to Be Confined nt wood-
stock, one at Joliet.

Chicago. June fl-FYve 81 the officers or
th-a American Railway Union returned 4,
flfe NoFastock Jail Csl tsse $50 p IN train.
President r. Y. DytAs failed 10 gqeport IN
tiHSe for ths train. fle Called On ina
marshal az noCsl aaatf was requesteSf 10
report AT O'Clock at tae nlaa1shaIS office
with The Others. og al the Northwestern
station az oclOck. AlessTS. Rogers kea-
ther, Burns Hogan agsi CiooSaWtn szlpa
fhesT ca&ef bat an instant al zlos.f, and
rhey could mot account for his failure TO-
report. Ias,rs told the marshal that Ae
had considerable business 70 transact, but
he wound be through IN time 10 take afle
train Deputies Logan and Currun sssarSi-
ed che TRAIN with the Ave men who had
reported. and Deputy Clark retuTsled to
the nlaEShaA 5 office with DtslS ecommat-
ment papers. The marshal was vsxexf at
the failure OF Dtsss to report on time, and
he sent three men 10 hook for him
Bring hsm in. wherever you find him.
was the marshal = orissrs 10 his deputies
II do moi th3mk he mas ptarpoSely missed
the aTvifu." said tho marshal. vet hss
failure to report on tanse Is annoying. 1t
places Mr. Debs in "a bad iigat. faIolesi
him Unal o'clock agrd he should have
been here. II he is found tonight ne will
renKasn IN my office until gra4a time in
the morning
Martin j. Elliott. the seventh man.
wired that he was on his way 10 Chicago
some time during the night. When tho
party was first sent TO Jail Elliott was
two days behind time in reaching Chicago
from The Eact.
owing to Debs' failure 10 report, George
w. Howard secured another days respite.
Howard. who has quarreled with his for
mer associates and established q rival or
ganization, desired to serve his sentence
separate from the Others. and iha desire
was mutual. Today 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 6 o'clock train to-
night. but Debs' absence gave Howard
another night with his family.
The commitment papers were made out
for six months In the Debs case and fhree
months In each of the others, less seven-
teen DAYS served from January 10 Janu-
ary a in the Woodstock jail. The COM
mitment Was made on the Interstate com
meree contempt. The men are so cond-
dent that Judge Woods VIII recorder the
Santa Fe sentence to he concurrent thar
they give themselves no concern on fhe
probability Of having TO serve double
time.
IEp to a late hour tonight nebs had not
returned Marshal Arnold sent all the
available detectives of his office in search
of the missing prisoner, but not trace
of him was found. Tho marshal does not
believe that Dehs may have run AWAY,
and he is inclined to think Debs viii
make his appearance at the Woodstock
iaii tomorrow Debs' bondsmen are no
longer liable for his return. as he sur
rendered himself TO the marshal nj noon,
and that act relieved him of his bond.
Deputy Marshals Logan and Curran
returned from Woodstock at a late hour.
Dehs had not reached there on the iats
trains One of the special deputies In
search of Dehg learned late tonight that
Dcbs was last seen at $50 o'clock in COM
pany with w. p. Morrlsey. the newly
elected chief OF the order OF Railway
Trainmen. and that they We're on their
way to the marshal's Office.