People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — COXEY IN COURT. [ARTICLE]

COXEY IN COURT.

diarized with Trespassing; on the Grounds of the Capitol. Washington, May 7.—Jacob S. Coxey and his lieutenants, Carl Browne and Christopher Columbus Jones, were arraigned for violation of the capitol grounds act on May 3. Coxey and Browne had both attempted to speak from the capitol steps. Browne had been arrested for disorderly conduct. Coxey had been led away and then released. Coxey, later appearing as a witness in court for Browne, was arrested on the charge for which he was tried. Attorneys Ilytnann and Lipscomb appeared for the defendants in the preliminary proceedings and raised the issue of constitutionality of the law under which their clients were arrested. The point was argued at considerable length by Senator Allen, of Nebraska. Judge Miller, after the arguments closed, overruled the objections of counsel for the defense to the information, the judge holding that the capitol grounds act was constitutional. He denied Coxey a special trial. The court reassembled at 1:30 o’clock, and after some delay a jury was selected and sworn. Assistant District Attorney Mullowney then addressed the jury, explaining the charges against Coxey, Browne and Jones, and the law applicable to the charges. Maj. Moore, the chief of police, in his testimony repeated the conversation with Coxey on April 30, when the general asserted his intention of carrying out the programme of speaking from the capitol steps.