Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — TRIAL OF DEBS BEGUN. [ARTICLE]

TRIAL OF DEBS BEGUN.

Judge Woods Hears Evidence In Contempt .Cases Against A. K. U. Officers. With tho calling of Judge Woods’ court in Chicago Wednesday morning the work of rehearsing the events of the recent railroad strike and crystallizing them in numberless folios of dry legal documents was begun in earnest. Tne contest, while it lacks the dash and excitement which marked the days and nights when the attempt was made to enforce the Pullman boycott, promises to be a battle roya 1 between the opposing attorneys, and the questions to be decided, it is asserted, aro hardly less in importance than those involved in the strike and boycott. It is general y admitted that the case will be carried to the Supreme Court, no matter in whoso favor it is decided. The case is simply a continuance of the proceedings begun in July for contempt of court against Eugene V. Debs, George W. Howard, Sylvester Keliher and L. W. Rogers, officers of the American Railway Union. The defendants are also under indictments for offenses similar to those charged in the informations for contempt, but they have not yet been tried.