Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1888 — MARTIN IRONS IN A RAGE. [ARTICLE]

MARTIN IRONS IN A RAGE.

He Is Acquitted of Wire-Tapping, but Calls Judge Laflin a Liar. I St. Louis special.] Martin Irons, the leader of the great strike of railroad men on the Missouri Pacific system two years ago, who was indicted on the charge of attempting to tap telegraph wires and obtain dispatches going to and from Jay Gould and General Manager Hoxie, has just been tried and acquitted, greatly to the delight of his friends and the Knights of Labor generally. Daring the summing up by counsel, Judge Laughlin, one of the attorneys for the prosecution, called Irons an anarchist, whereupon Irons called Mr. Laughlin a liar. The Judge paid no attention to the remark of Irons, Dut a moment later bitterly denounced him as an agitator and an anarchist of the Spies and Johann Most type. Irons sprang to his feet, and in a highly excited manner and still louder voice, bjnadww the Judge as a liar. Tne scene was quite dramatic and exciting, but two deputy sheriffs soon squelched the irate defendant, and Mr. Laughlin continued his speech.