Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-04
SOCIALISTS FACE
Terms IN PRISON
SUPERIOR JUDGE IN skATTlE
COURT INSISTS ON PUNlsH.
ING ron CONTEMPT.
COLLEAGUES OPPOSE
MIxup 10 Result OF Issuance Of lnJunc.
tlon 70 Prevent Street speaking;
Scene In Court Unusual.

Seattle, Oct. S.-When the judicial
mill 1T the county court house began
to grind this morning, Superior Judge
John Il. HUMPHREYS was apparently -
determined a. ever to send to hard
labor at the county stockade tho social.
lot men and women who had dehed
against street speaking.
Judge Everett Smith In another d.;
vision OF the superior court. and with
the support OF other superior judges.
was prepared to release on writs OF
habeas corpus any prisoners convicted
Of contempt In Judge Humphries'
court and had publicly announced that
releases might be had on application.
Humphries maintains that Judge
Smith has no Jurisdiction In contempt
cases. He also declares that the state
supreme court exceeded its authority
In restraining him from trying Henry
Russell, president of the United Mine
Workers Of America for the Pacific
Northwest, and second defendant.
However, the Judge has avoided taking
up these cases.
The first case on Judge Humphries'
calendar today WAS that Of Mrs. Ella
Price, wife OF Willard Price. a socialist
street speaker
Court Room Crowded.
The scene In Judge Humphriea'
court late yesterday was remarkable.
The court room was jammed to sui
location and the crowd interrupted
and applauded frequently. Most OF the
prisoners when arraigned expressed
anew their contempt for the Judge and
defled him to do his worst.
Glenn Hoover, attorney for the pris-
oners, was fined. disbarred and order.
ed removed to Jail a. soon as he began
to speak.
Attorney Hulet M. Wells. socialist
candidate for mayor at the last cleo.
Stion, was disbarred and fined without
being permitted to speak a word IN
self-defense.
Mrs. Humphries secretary Of So
cialist local, was dismissed with q
small hne. the Judge saying he did not
wish to humiliate member Of his
own Scotch clan.
Mrs. william Mentally IT Cd up with
q baby In her arms. The Judge said
ne did not wish to send baby to Jail
Never mind" the woman said bit
terly, ""the baby 10 as guilty az, am. :
She was fined 800 and sent to jail
with the baby and q little boy. The
5womans husband, . Spanish war vet-
eran. also was fined 800 and sent to
Jail. Six women and two children were
In the county jail last night.
Judge 10 contradlctsd.
During the judges lecture on the
evil OF street speaking he declared that
Albert r. Parsons. the anarchist, hang
ed in Chicago after the Haymarket
riots. was guilty Of murder through
Indictment to riot. An elderly woman
dressed in black, standing on q chair
in the rear of the court room cried:
THAT'S untrue. He was an In
nocent man. I am Parsons widow.
AS soon as Judge HUMPHREYS could
recover fr.m his surprise he shouted
to the woman, who was Lucy Par
sons:
widow or no widow, you had better
keep quiet or you'll ind yourself In
the county JAIL
up the remainder Of tho cases tomor-
row. He has said that the supreme
court, which has issued two writs
against MIN, mas no Jurl10ictlOH. AIS
other list Of eighteen signatures to
the resolution Of defiance was thrust
into his hands by an attorney while
the Judge was on the bench, making
$50 in all.
I Judge is Threatened.
Judge Humphries court room was
guarded by 20 armed deputy sheriffs
The Judge said two notes had been
sent to him threatening to deliver an
internal machine to him in the court
room.
Judge HUMPHREYS read statute
which he said expressly forbade Judge
Everett Smiths release Of contempt
prisoners on habeas corpus.
A meeting Of the superior Judges
was held at noon today to take the
question Of the disposition Of cases
that come to other departments from
Judge Humphries' court.
In the meantime Judge Smith stated
that he would grant no more habeas
corpus writs.