The Alaska daily empire., 1918-11-01
Police Prevent Wickersham from Holding Meeting Contrary to Influenza
 Regulations. fa
ACTIONS CONFESS GUILT
By Locking Door on Police and Turning Out Lights Meeting Admitted It
 Violated Law.

Judge James Wickersham deliber ateiy violated the influenza quaran- inc regulations last night by attempt ing to hold a political meeting and make speech at the Two by Four Hall. The meeting was dispersed by the police. pt. .., ,s-, ..,...
 The meeting had hardly got under way before the police learned of it., and the subsequent proceedings are set out in the affidavit of Chief of Police Thomas H. Dargan printed in this story.
 Judge Wickersham Had Started
 To. Speak
 One of those who attended the ing that tallies exactly with the facts set forth in the affidavit of the Chief of Police. He said, further, that Judge Wickersnam had just got fairly started on his speech, when the guard at the door came hurried ly into the hall, and shouted, "the bulls," meaning, of course, the po- lice. Then came a rapping on the door, and the lights were put out The police gained entrance after q while through the store of Winter & Pond, and the door was then open, and Judge Wickersham's audience fled.
 Wickersham Lauded Valentine
 Judge Wickersham devoted the first part of his speech to an eulogy of Emery Valentine, to whom he re- ferred as my faithful friend He denounced "other friends throughout the Territory for having gone back on him, but said he and Valentine had stuck together through thick and thin.
 Judge Wickersham then started into the situation with reference to the fisheries, when the alarm, "the bulls," was sounded and the lights went out.
 Dispatch Was Represented
 Among those at the meeting be- sides Judge Wickersham was Wright Wenrich, reporter and all-round rep resentative of Ed c. Russelps Boob ized Dispatch, Senator Dan Suther. land of Juneau who purposes to rep resent the Fourth Division in the next Legislature notwithstanding that he has not lived in it for nearly two years, and others.
 Chief of Police Dargan said to Judge Wickersham, who was holding the meeting, T ought to arrest you, but don't let it happen again."
 Actions Confess Guilt
 The actions of those at the meet ing, the presence of a guard at the door, his rushing in and locking the door at the sight of the police, the turning out of the lights. and the whole procedure is evidence that those at the meeting knew they were violating the law.
 Affidavit of Chief-of-PoIice Dargan
 The affidavit of Chief-of-Police Oar gan follows:
 United States of America,
 Territory of Alaska )ss.
 T. H. Dargan, being first duly sworn, deposed and says:
 That he is Chief of Police of the City of Juneau. Territory of Alaska. That on or about the 26th. day of October. 1918. as such officer. I was ordered by the Mayor and the Police committee of the Common Council, to prohibit all public meetings in said city owing to the epidemic of Spanish influenza now prevalent throughout the United States and some reported cases in Juneau. The public was duly and thoroughly noti fled of said order prohibiting public meetings in said city. and the order has been strictly enforced and ob served so far as I have been in formed, except in one instance which transpired on the evening of October 31st. 1918. Sometime near 8 o'clock on the evening of said date | was