Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-06
us. SECRETARY.
OF LABORALL
NIGHT IN JAIL
ASAPLOTTER
Wilson's Record During Mine
Troubles in Which He Was a
Leader Are Unearthed-Never
Returned to Face Charges,
Appellate Body in Reviewing Case
Afterward Held Cabinet Officer
Was Dangerously Near Being in
Contempt Nof High Tribunal.


NEW YORK, July 6.--The New
York American to-day prints the fol-
lowing,
William B. Wilson, Secretary of
Labor in the Cabinet OF President
Wilson, was arrested and placed in
jail at Cumberland, Allegheny Coun-
ty, Maryland, June 1S, 1894.
The charge against the Cabinet
member was of unlawful assembly
and conspiracy.
The offenses were alleged to have
been committed in connection with
miners strike which Wilson directed
as a member of the United Mine
Workers Of America, of which John
Mcbride was then president.
Held in Jail Overnight.
Wilson was held in Jail all night by
order of Sheriff Clarence King, of
Cumberland who arrested him at the
mining town of Homecoming, Md. The
following day. June IA, he was held
in bonds Of $500 to await the action
OF the October term of court at Cum
berland by Justice of the Peace Alex
snder King.
The bail was furnished by William
Atkinson, Of Allegheny County.
The case appeared on the october
court calendar as No. SO, Criminal
Appeals, and was continued. States
Attorney David w. Sloan, now de-
ceased, announced to the court that
the warrant was missing.
At the succeeding January (1S95)
term Of court the case, No. 8, Crimi-
nal Appeals, was again continued, the
records not revealing the nature Of
the continuance.
When the matter was brought be-
fore the April term as No. 4, Grim
inal Appeals, 1t was dismissed.
Only Criminal Appeared.
As far as can be learned by dill
gent search of the court record, files
of newspapers of the day and inter-
views with the former Sheriff, Will
son did not appear within the coun-
ty at any Of the terms of court at
which the case was docketed. He
was represented by counsel but was
not there to be tried.
But this was the second time that
Wilson had been before the Cum
herIand courts Earlier in the same
wear he had been made defendant to
three injunctions and had been serv-
ed with an order to show cause why
he should not be adjudged guilty Of
contempt
The case was that of the CONSOLE
dalton Coal Company of Maryland
against william B. Wilson ct al, No
1904 equity, in the Circuit Court of
Allegheny County.
A remarkable signed opinion de-
livered jointly by Judges Hunter
Boyd, now chief Judge of the Court
Of Appeals of Maryland, and H. W.
Hoffman, deceased, while not holding
Wilson guilty places upon his Shout
ders responsibility for lawlessness.
1t was entitled "Tn the Matter of the
AlleReU contempt VI w lllldul d. VIII
SON"
Held Responsible for Disorder
Here is the language of the opin-
ion:
1T is clearly shown that the re-
spondent, William B. Wilson, is
largely responsible for the present
condition of affairs and it is equally
true that whatever may be his &C
complishments, many of our own
miners are his equal in intelligence
and know far better than he does
what is for their interests. He is re-
sponsible, in part, at least, for the
loss of wages already sustained and
for such lawlessness as has already
occurred in this country.
The evidence shows acts done or
melted by him that would have IN
questionably made him amenable to
the law, and liable to punishment if
they had occurred subsequently to the
service of the injunction on him.
1T is true that it is shown by the
evidence and admitted by Wilson
when on the stand that he addressed
a meeting near the Allegheny mines
on the afternoon of May %, in which
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