The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-10

A pistol shot in the Becker courtroom
would have been less OF a sensation than
was the announcement. just before noon
yesterday, after Justice Seabury had ad-
tourned the trial until Monday because
It had been impossible TO MI the Jury
I box and Impossible for the Distric, At.
torney to make his opening address to
through some slip in hs editorial ma =
chinery. had printed the full text ~ that
opening address as having been deliv-
cred. The account of the speech was
supplemented with comments as to how
Becker and his wife bore up under Mr..
Whitman's savage attack"
The District Attorney, following. as he
phrased IL, the custom of public officials.
had issued on Friday evening To the
afternoon newspapers copies OF his ad-
dress. He had done so with proper au-
thority for the convenience OF the eve
ming newspapers and in order to prevent
possible garbling or possible lnaccura-
c!es. With the advance copies had gone
NV 'ioil 'iitN tiit was Ilpt
to be released for publication until after
the District Attorney had begun to
speak. Nobody dreamed I. at the text OF
the States case against Becker would be
published unless it was actually deliv-
cred.
When the news got to Justice Seabury
after he left the court room that digni-
fled jurist was amazed and incensed. He
directed instantly that the District At
torney should bring contempt OF court
proceedings against the Globe.
The result Of his order was that last
night processes We're issued against the
Globe as corporation and against
three individuals who are technically
held responsible for the premature PUB
LEGATION. Henry John Wright. the presi- =
dent of the Commercial Advertiser As
ISOLATION uhe Globe company: George
T. Hughes. the city editor OF the paper.
and Charles T. Brodhead, chit. of the
Globes reportorai staff covering" the
Becker trial.
They are ordered to appear before
Justice Seabury at l.. NJ. Tomorrow
afternoon and show cause why they
should not he punished for issuing an
unfair. untrue and improper account OF
the trial The proceeding IL summary
and II rests wit. the Justice whether or
not the persons cited shall he imprisoned
for thirty days, pay IA fine of 500 or
suffer both penalties. The law provides
that IL subsequently the contempt Is
shown to be fragrant the Grand Jury
may indict. IL a conviction is obtained
fine of $500 or n year in prison. or
both. may be the punishment.
Every one connected with the case
realized that the premature publication OF
the speech furnished ground for Becker's
counsel to reiterate that Mr. Whitman
was rushing into the newspapers In order
to create more prejudice against Becker
and that Mr.. Manton and his associates
would be prompt to move for "A mistrial.
As a matter OF fact. OF course the Dis
trict Attorney was not only astonlshed
hut shocked when he found that the Globe
had printed his unfinished statement hut
his personal feelings have nothing to do
with the strategy that would naturally Ice
employed by Martin T. Manton for
Becker.
Mr. Manton and his associate. John l..
THOMPSON, have worked shrewdly to get
before the public and into the new record
of the case the Idea that Mr.. Whitmans
Continued an Third rage