Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-06-17
JUDGE DENIES SSTATE'SPLEA
FOR BIG BAIL
COMERFORD FORCES TRUTH FROM
RELUCTANT STATES WITNESSES
l. c. STILL PROSECUTING EDITOR
BY Floyd Gibbons.

BY Floyd Gibbons.
Carl Person Is out on bail
The telegraph wires have flashed the news In
brief all over the country by this time In all
sections 1t Is now known that the first battle in
the fight Of the workers to save the editor from
the Illinois Central sallows. has been fought and
won.
The legal lesson that Frank Comerford TAUGHT
the Illinois Central staggered them when they
suddenly found that Person. for the time being
- through their fingers Com.
erford found the one weak spot in the framed nm
persecution. and with the influence of the entire
labor movement at his back. he broke through
When all OF the evidence had been submitted
before Judge Walker chief justic. of m, rrtm
NAL bench Of the circuit court Cook county III.
,hl'as" eourt ru"d that Person had been wrong
fendant IL bonds
D-ms.A. Hixh HAIL
@rasring at III. last straw in his effort to keep
f''s"n b'hind the bars. States Attorney Williams
81 b.Nitt county. tried hay. the bail placed a,
a IT"hibittAe figure. Judg. Walker placed tn.
amount at $4,000 and within an hour. sur.ti.. had
be- n raised for NOR. than this amount and p.r.on
Was turned over from IN. custody Of he sheriff
'arl Person can now fac. his trial on the trump.
'a-np murder charge from the free outer air In
stead OF the dark interior Of a cell. He In now
Tree 10 aid In the preparation of his defense and to
rnttf with renewed spirit, the fight of the IS. oso
union shop men against the greed of the Iltnof.
Central and Hartman lines.
A result of the strenuous underhand oposi-
f.eia Ne lnI.st. cssssea sssa. 49, s.sss
JAIL sentence on account of his eioss adherence
10 the Illinois csntrars phiiosophy Of anarchy
e. Power AAsss CsussA
This slave driver Was Allen Davidson the l. c
rouns-h foreman who drove the summons
servers OF Cook county from the private domain
OF the Illinois Central bull pen at Clinton and
blatantiy put the power of his employees a. aboy.
that of the courts. His sentiment. were TO hell
With the courts. I'm working for tn. c. when
he threatened the deputis, and int.,fsrsS
"a In h.
witness.
On the stand Davidson who was broush, to Chi.
cage on = John Doe warrant, admitted that the
reason he had opposed the search for the witness
was because the men looking for him were no,
friendly TO the Illinois Central even II they did
have the power of the circuit court with them
davidson appeared TO be sweating blood as he took
MIN The glance he sent around the court room
into the faces of the hundreds OF union men and
s.aSea .,sS Of rss, vas .,,. not S"m'or.inx II.
sneaksd from the court
Ce.svsssA Dsass Oct rvvsA
On the witness stand some of the Illinois Central
witnesses developed remarkable powers of sight
| and hearing. one of them declared that Person
and Ausser weer twenty feet apart when the ed
tor Was forced TO shoot but the witness declared
that h. Ind his eye on both OF EN- ALL the tim.
| telephone and called the police and had then got
back In time to see the last shot fired although
other witnesses had testified that she shots we're
fired so fast they couldn't be counted
AH OF the witnesses wer. forced to admit that
"usser was the aKkressor In The fight that he had
wsylaid and attacked Person from behind and had
jumped on him on the ground. But at this point
their Testimony diserged into widening eirces all
calculated 10 produce one eonclusion-namely that
the fight was oVer-that Person out of danger
anu away from Musser-and that Musser was being
heid ey the men at the time of the shooting Then
they swore that Person returned. got in back of
Musser and in some way o other fired seven shots
through the crowd. without touching any one but
Musser.
Gomez rford shot his questions like a gatling gun
E,isions were useless III. forced. rather than per
u Wa
"uR possible L. eScap. the truth by hur.llIne r.
Many admissions. most damaging to he preseeu-
tien. Went down In the record and may later be
usei in ths trial To impeach some of the more than
utsiionahle testimony.
Wtus~s-.sIhe Barkisx Barri.t~r
Sfafss Attorney Williams obee lions vers IRE
quent and insistenG we'll a. fufi3e Whenever
1emeFiefd sought 10 show the preiudse Of the Wit
nesses that "eer testlf, Ing. and of them be.
tuE S,ah rn1Iloyts Il the Illinois Central spent
trf lus heots on tie stand Williams enuHi littr-
enc and try 10 prevent the witness from answer
lug The majority of The objections were 50 lack
ins in reason that they w"re #otcr-Tulcd L, IT,
tHsrt
Wen yeu took APP ths stIdy %, Law Nr VII
aims satd Attotus' Csnsrfcrf. IN sxtSpeHatiu
'ts rrtEs riug lost a Wit. hape AL ~ hlf
teBga, ard dul BRAN
fhs haIlif raHpsd fer arder as the
noisi expressed their Of the stineiuF
r.luks
STATE. ta.e Exposed.
T~o points of great interest the dsfenss
wsrs ds,eloped IN The hearing Tn firsi ~ ia
the state Will tds 10 prov ttsi Mussers n,4rir--
az attack 81 f,tson WAs over when tte shooting
o.a,i...d Third r.s.p