The Prescott daily news., 1913-10-04
WOMAN |S SENT TO
 JAIL WITH BABIES
JUDGE HUMPHREYS OF SEATTLE ALSO IMPRISONS 5 OTHER
 WOMEN AND 12 MEN,
HE IGNORES SUPREME COURT
Jurist Becomes Angry When Fellow Judges Release Socialist Street Speaker-LaWyer Likewise
 Fare Badly at His Hands.

Seattle, Wash, Oct 4.-After Judge John k. Humphries had sent F men and six women to the county jail for contempt of his court consultation of other judges of the superior court was held. Thorwald Siegfried, an at torney, who previously had con- plained to the bar association of Judge Humphries' excessive use of the writ of injunction, was requested to apply for a writ of habeas corpus for the prisoners.
 Siegfried applied to Judge Everett Smith for the release of Glenn Hoov- CT, attorney for the Free Speech De- fense league and former assistant at torneygeneral of Washington, and G. NJ. Hodgson, one of the signers of resolutions of protest" against Judge Humphries' anti-street speaking iu- functions, and they were released on their own recognizance. Each a short time before had been sentenced to pay $1O0 fine for contempt, while in addition Hoover had been forever disbarred" by Judge Humphries and Hodgson was sent to jail for six months.
 Judge Smith said he would release all the prisoners who sought freedom on writs of habeas corpus.
 Judge Humphries was angry when he heard of the consultation of his fellow judges and the release of two of the prisoners. He made a state ment to the press, denouncing the other judges, and declared the right of habeas corpus did not apply in contempt of court cases.
 The scene in Judge Humphries' court was remarkable. The court room was damned to suffocation and the crowd interrupted and applauded frequently. Most of the prisoners, when arraigned, expressed anew their contempt for the judge and detied him to do his worst. Glen Hoover, at torney for the prisoners, was fined, disbarred and ordered removed to jail as soon as he began to speak.
 Attorney Hulet NJ. Wells, Socialist candidate for mayor at the last cleo tion, was disbarred and fined without being permitted to speak a word in self-defense.
 Mrs. William McNally stood up with a baby in her arms. The judge said he did not wish to send baby to jail
 Never mind," the woman said bit terly, the baby is as guilty as l ann
 She was fined $10 and sent to jail with the baby and little boy The woman's husband also was fined $100 and sent to jail Six women and two children spent the night in jail.
 During the judges lecture on the evil of street speaking he declared that Albert R. Parsons, the anarchist hanged in Chicago after the Haymar- ket riots, was guilty of murder through indictment to riot, An elderly woman dressed in black, standing on a chair in the rear of the courtroom cried: That is untrue. He was an innocent man. I am Parsons widow
 As soon as Judge Humphries could recover frsen his surprise, he shouted to the woman who was Lucy Parsons:
 "Widow or no widow, you had bet ter keep quiet or you'll find yourself in the county jail"
 Fifty-ive Socialists had been cited by the judge for contempt of court be- cause they had signed resolutions Of defiance" that denounced the judge for his injunctions in street-speaking cases. Judge Humphries proceeded with the contempt cases in spite of the fact that the state supreme court had issued writ restraining him in the case of two defendants who had appealed. Humphries said the SUI preme court had no jurisdiction.