People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — DEBS LOSES A POINT. [ARTICLE]

DEBS LOSES A POINT.

The Court Kuleg for the Introduction ot Evidence to Prove Contempt. Chicago, July 25. —The attorneys on botli sides of the case ayainst Debs, Keliiher, Howard and Rogers, on trial for contempt of court, aryued nearly all day Tuesday for and against the contention that the answer of the defendants to the information filed by the government was sufficient to purge them of contempt, and no evidence should be admitted bearing on the charge. When they had concluded a consultation was held between .Judges Grosscup and Woods, resulting in a decision to the effect that the prisoners could not be discharged upon their verified answer to the allegations of the information. The court held that it was the privilege of the government to produce witnesses or other proofs to the truth of its charges of contempt and that they could be rebutted by similar testimony on the part of the defense. The opening of the examination was set for tto-day at 10 a. m. By the decision the defendants are driven from their first entrenchments and President Debs and his associates will be compelled to stay in jail or to go out under bonds until the conclusion of the examination. This may take a week, or it may take a mouth or more.