People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — HEAVILY FINED. [ARTICLE]

HEAVILY FINED.

Chicago Election Commissioners Punished for Contempt of Court. Chicago. May 18.—To pay a fine of $1,009 and to remain in jail until such fine be paid was the penalty imposed by Judge Chetlain on Election Commissioners P. H. Keenan, A. W. Hutchings and Henry Schomer for refusing to obey the court’s order to submit to inspection by the grand jury the ballots cast at the April election in the twen-ty-second precinct of the Twentyninth ward. The proceedings were dismissed as to Chief Clerk W. A Taylor, because it had been shown that he had no authority over the ballots. The respondents were not in court and an order of commitment was at once issued and sent to Sheriff Gilbert, instructing him to arrest the contumacious commissioners and lock them in jail.