The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-26
PRESIDENT SHEA
ESCAPES PRISON
Upheld in His Refusal to Answer
Questions.
TWO OTHERS COMMITTED
STRIKE SETTLEMENT NOT YET
IN SIGHT.

! CHICAGO. May 25.-Cornelius P. Shea
president of the international
Transfers union. was upheld today
by Judge KOhIsaat of the federal court
in his refusal to answer questions be
fore Master in Chancey Sherman which
might tend to incriminate him Shea IS
now under Indictment in the criminal
court. and Judge KohIsaat declared that
answers to some of the questions put
60 him might prejudice the hearing Oh
his case
Other Two Jailed.
In the same decision which excused
Shea the court ruled that Bernard MuI-
llgan. president of the express dTlEeIS
union. and John DOnOhue, q member OF tn6
same union, had refused to answer ques-
lions which could not in any way con
neCt them with any criminal pfOceeu-
iugS. and they We're therefore IN Gun
tempt of court. He sentenced both men
TO jail. but allowed them TO remain ~
nominal custody in the hands OF Chttu
States Marshal Ames for i've udys - 81
order that their attorneys may pei
review on habeaS corpus proceeuIllo9
before another federal Judge Inc M M
will he held in a hotel for the I'VE uaS
i'm charge of two deputy marshais; ArSu-
mentS on the motion to commit inc men
were heard during the moruhE, a,,U
Judge kohisdat announced ms ueClSIu. i
late in the afternoon The court IooiH
was crowded with labor leaders and mem
hers of the transfers union and many
representatives Of the employers.
Shea Shook Hands With Mayor.
At the conclusion Of the hearing
large crowd gathered about Attorney
Mayer. who had asked the court 20 COIL
NIT the men for contempt sresloeIISS
Shea edged his way through the crown
to the attorney and they shook nailuS-
Wei. I got your CO-cOnspIratorS, SS'iu
thu lawyer with laugh
Il not
swered Shea
The hearing before Master in Chancery
Sherman will he resumed at 10 o clock
tomorrow morning Hugh McGee- an
other official of the local teamsters
union viii he one of the first witnesses.
James r. Barry. business agent OF tie
same union viii also be called WlIlii
the next few days
No Disorder.
The strike did not spread to any great
extent today and there was practically
no disorder. A number of the umber
firms made a few deliveries. but did not
attempt anything like their normal
amount 81 business For the fTSL unle
since the commencement Of the strike
4 large number Of coal wagons handieu
by cOiOred teamSterS passed through tile
downtown streets without ponce pIoLeC
ton. None Of them were molested IN any
way. The large State street stores also
made deliveries. going even into the out
skirts Of the city without guards anu
Few Volunteers.
NTavor Dunno and Chief Of Police
o. Neil did not meet today with the re-
sponse expected when they called Tor
900 volunteers for additional policemen 3
Not over 100 men responded and only
three-quarters of these proved accep- !
table In the lumber districts SeVerai
concerns when offered police protection
refused to accept it, saying that It was
not possible for them to make DELIVERIES &
unless their wagons were guarded oy
soldiers Chief of Police O'Neii replied
that he would not force officers upon )
them and that they could wait for sol Z
Ifers if they so desired. but that he would
cause their yards and the territory /
around them 10 be patTOlled by his OF I
fiCeTS.
There is tonight no apparent prospect /
IN any direction Of a settlement OF the Z
strike The express companies absolutely F,
refuse to recede in the slightest degree I
from their declaration that none Of their /
old men will be 'Te-emplOyed- and no /
move looking toward a settlement mas /
been started in any other direction.