Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — PANAMA LIBEL CASE [ARTICLE]

PANAMA LIBEL CASE

Newspaper Men, Through Attorneys Plead Not Guilty. At New York, Monday, The Presa, Publishing company, publishers of the New York World, through its counsel, Delancey Nicoll, pleaded not guilty before Judge Holt in the federal court to the charge of criminal libel at West Point and at the New York postoffice in the Panama canal case. Counsel for Caleb Van Hamm, aneditor of the World, entered a plea of not guilty to a similar charge on behalf of MI. Van Hamm. Counsel was granted one week to prepare a special pleading as to the jurisdiction of the court.