Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-06-10
EDITOR REMOVED FROM JAIL AT NIGHT:
200 MILE AUTO TRIP ACROSS COUNTRY
States Witnesses Admit On Stand that Giant Strike
Decoyed Person Over Telephone and Assaulted From
Ambush Labor Leaders Attend Court Hearing
DEFENDANT EXPECTS RELEASE on Bonds

n" uncertain language that he didn't give a damn
Tor the courts Of Cook county or anywhere else
and drove the two men oil the premises That
night force OF deputies was required TO search
the bull pen and pull Tom Payne the reluctant
witness from the store room where he hid
ing from the summons servers For his inter
terence with court process and threats. the lore
man. Allen Davidson. wa, served with a John
Doe subpoena. ordering hun TO appear in Chr
Gag" al,o, and face possible charges OF coniemp,
oi court.
was IN Clinton when news OF the issuance OF
the writ reached there | read the telegram re-
eened there from John c. Flora and r. C Ken
nedy of the Chicago Person Defense League
They wired congratulations and said that plans
were being made to honor Persons arrival in
Chicago by monster labor demons stration that
would fill the union depot and show the entire
city that organized labor was standing behind
the editor IN his tight
IL seems that other eyes than mine read that
telegram. because the sheriff carefully avoided
the possibility OF any public demonstration tina,
might be made on behalf OF Carl Person There
was no tram ride for Person from Clinton to
ehieago. Instead. at four o'clock Sunday morn
,ns, two automobiles. loaded with guards. drew
up IN front OF the Dewitt county jail at Clinton
Kidnapped BY Deputies in Auto
There was eankIng OF keys in the jail and
men with lanterns entered Persons cell He was
hurried into his clothes and hustled out into one
OF the automobiles IL was a modern. up-to-date
kidnapping. but. further than Disappointing ten or
twenty thousand union men, II was useless Per
son was conveyed by devious routes through
country towns. $50 miles to Elgin. where the
automobiles were abandoned and the entry to
ohicago made by suburban tram. After twelve
hours OF riding across the burning prairies Per
sons skin. made tender by five months eonne-
ment, wore more than healthy tan--it was al
most a solid blister.
When Person appeared before Judge Walker
Monday morning. States Attorney Williams OF
Dewitt county and his specially appointed and
mysteriously paid for assistant. Lott Herrlck ap-
pcare / and moved that the writ OF habeas corpus
be quashed and that Person be taken back TO
Dewitt county. They presented affidavits to
show that the courts in tina, judicial district were
now prepared 10 hear the case Affidavi,s pre-
>ented by the defense showed that that was not
the when the Application for the writ was
made and the result VAS that Judge Walker over
ruled the motion and allowed the writ to stand.
Defense Scores Hit
Person had Wen ms iirst point in his figh, ior
bail
Attorney Gomerford in hls opening statemen,
told the court that the defense would show BY
witnesses that Car Person was being wrongully
detained IN jail. lie >did that evidence word be
presented 10 show that Tony Mus>er. the ex-ehei
II police oi Clinton. then employed as a strike
breaker Ter the lllnoi, Central. telephoned the
editor at the newspaper Office and BY use oi an
ahas. decoyed hlm To the nierurhan station where
he wdylaid and assaulted him lie said witnesses
would testify that Per,on had received a terrible
heating al the hands OF the giant strkebreaker
and bad enly fired HI, revolver IN defense of his
own lie
Telephone Girl on Stand
The states attorney in support of his eonten-
tion that Person be denied bail. said that the
evidence would tend 10 show that Person had
deliberately and without prevocation. shot Musser
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