Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-24
CHICAGO ANARCHISTS
Released FROM JAIL.
POLICE OFFICIALS ADMIT THAT
THEY ARE NOT PREPARED TO
OFFER ANY EVIDENCE
SHOWING A ACY.
BETWEEN THEM AND THE MAN
WHO MURDERED PRESIDENT
MCKINLEY.

CHICAGO, September 2S.-The nine
anarchists who have been under arrest
here since the assassination of Presi-
dent Mckinley. were to-day given theS
freedom, Judge Chetlain so ordering
after the prosecution had admitted that
there was no legal evidence against
them. Emma Goldman was not a par
ty TO the proceedings. Her case Is set
for hearing tomorrow before Magis-
trate Prindiville. where sne, as well as
the nine men freed to-day. are charged
with conspiracy TO murder President
Mckinley. The eases IN the lower
court with reference to the men is of
course nutlified by the action of Judge
Ohet;ain to-day. Miss Goldman will
also be set at liberty as Justice Prindi-
vile has agreed to take such action in
her case as the upper court took in the
cases of the men. Attorney Brown
said he would try to have Miss Gold
man freed to-day.
When the hearing on the writ of ha-
beas corpus began before Judge Chef
lain, DR.. Taylor, the City Prosecutor,
declared that he could no longer ask
that the prisoners be he'd.
1--WE Have No Legal Evidence
against them. he said. They were ar
rested at the request of the Buffalo
authorities, and since their .neareera-
ton we have been in constant touch
with the eastern police was in
formed this morning that Chief Bull
had no evidence against them and
have tfse been informed tAat there e
no intention of trying TO get them into
the State of New York on extradition
papers. We are therefore willing that
they be set at liberty
Attorney Keeting, for the REALTORS
then demanded that in view Of the
gravity of the offense which had been
charged against his clients, that the
prosecution be required to state what
cause, or what suspicious weighed with
the police in making the arrest.
Judge Chetlain said that In view of
the fact that the prosecution, represent
ing both the city and the State, as we'll
as Buffalo by indirection, had agreed
to the liberation OF the prisoners and
admitted that there was no evidence
against them, that there was no rea-
son
For Further Inquiry
into the matter.
when arrested the charge against
the REALTORS was merely a misdemean-
or, and they were entitled to bail" the
court said. THE case was one of such
moment, however, | felt justified In
exercising all discretion. The prison
ers were therefore remanded without
bail for further hearing, pending an in
vestigation by the police. The Presi-
dent died from the assassin's bullet
and the prisoners this time were re-
manded without bail at their own re-
quest to allow the fullest investiga-
ton. Our duty has been fully done
and now | have but to order. and do
SO order, that the prisoners be liber-
ated'
The prisoners had been silent, their
faces expressionless during the pro-
ceedings. When the court ordered the
jail doors opened to them there was
Not a Trace of Jubilation
on their faces.
The prisoners were led back to Jail,
where they collected their belongings,
chiefly magazines and newspapers, and
then came down stairs, where they met
friends and members of their families.
For the first time they showed evil
dences of pleasure. Captain Revere,
of the police department, offered them
protection on the way to their homes,
but Abraham Isaak, the editor of an
anarchist newspaper and looked upon
as the leader of local anarchists, re-
fused it.
Emma Goldman received the news of
the liberation of her friends with a
laugh.
II guess they'll have to let me go
now" she said. 1T has been shown
that the men named as conspirators
with me did not conspire; and fancy
they would have trouble trying to show
that I conspired all by myself"
Assistant City Prosecutor Towne
was asked by counsel for Miss Gold
man to bring Miss Goldman's case be-
fore Justice Prindiville this afternoon
that the defendant might be free to-
day. He said he would consider the
matter.