Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — PUBLICATION OF EVIDENCE O. K. [ARTICLE]

PUBLICATION OF EVIDENCE O. K.

Court Dismisses Contempt Charge Against Laporte Herald. Laporte, May 18 —Right to publish evidence given in a trial was upheld by Norman Wolfe, special judge in the Laporte circuit court, when he dismissed an affidavit yesterday charging contempt of court against Hiram Lindgen, president; George Hahn, editor, and Julian Meyer, city editor, of the Laporte Herald. The affidavit was filed by N. E. Rowley, an attorney, and it was dismissed because it was adjudged defective. The judge, later In the day, when Rowley offered to silo a new affidavit, expressed the opinion that publication of the evidence was not contempt, and said he would not issue a new summons against the defendants. The evidence as published was regarded by Rowley as prejudicial to his client.