Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-28
HAMMERED BY ANGRY SOLDIERS
BECAUSE HE SLABS THEIR
CAPTAIN.
MINERS PRESIDENT IN COURT
TAKEN BEFORE SUPREME COURT
MERELY AS AN ACT OF
COURTESY.

! DCASCA, SO1O., ApIA yluS n
detachment of cavalry which yester-
day brought Charles H. Meyer, presi.
dent of the Western Federation of
Miners, to appear before the supreme
court in answer to a writ of habeas
corpus, w. D. Haywood, secretary and
treasurer of the federation, attempted
to aolk with the prisoner while Meyer
was taken from the train at the union
station and was beaten almost to
death for his attack on the guards.
Ordered to stand back by Capt.
Buckley Welles, commanding the
guard, Haywood struck the officer in
the face. In second Haywood was
surrounded by angry troopers, who
struck at the assaulter with the butts
of their carbines and beat him with
revolvers. That he was not killed by
the excited soldiers is due to the &C.
ton of Bert Evans, orderly of Capt
Welles, who
Struck Up the Muzzle
of gun aimed at Haywood and res
cued him from his position between
two cars where the guards has driver
him.
Haywood was then arrested and, III
the middle of a hollow square Of
militiamen, marched to a hotel near
the station. Haywood again showed
fight and was beaten into submission,
His injuries consist of deep cut on
the left side of the head and one on
the right side of the head which al
most severed the lower lobe of the
ear.
When a demand was made by Pc
lice Captain Frank Lee for the release
OF Haywood on the ground that the
military rule did not extend to Den
yer, Gen. Bell replied that he intend.
ed to hold Haywood as a military
prisoner and.
Would Shoot Any One
who attempted to take him; BUT, un.
der orders from Gov. Peabody. Hay.
wood was surrendered to Sheriff Arm
strong and placed in Jail.
President Meyer, who has been in
Jail at Telluride, was taken before the
state supreme court yesterday after
noon under the writ of habeas corpus
which had been issued in his case,
He rode in a hack with Gen. Sherman
M. Bell and Capt. Welles, respondents
to the writ. The vehicle was followed
by thirty-twO armed soldiers. who
guarded the entrance to the court
room while the habeas corpus pro
ceedings were in progress.
The return to the writ presented BY
Attorney General Miller set forth that
Meyer was lawfully restrained of his
liberty under the express command of
the governor and COMMUNICATIVE chief
OF the military forces of Colorado as
military necessity in the suppress.
sion OF state of instruction in San
Miguel county; that this court was
not Vested With Jurisdiction
to make or render any further order
except to dismiss and quash the writ
OF habeas corpus; that the production
OF Meyer before this court was not by
way of recognition of the court to or
der the release of the petitioner, but
as an act OF courtesy on the part of
the governor.
Gen. Bell reported that he had been
ordered by the governor not to release
Meyer either upon writ of habeas
corpus or otherwise until so com.
manded by the governor
The court heard arguments on a
motion of the petitioner to be ad.
mitted to bail. pending a decision on
the question of the courts Jurisdiction
and took the matter under advise |
ment.
Meyer was then removed to the no.
tel In custody of the militia.