People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — Denied a Vindication. [ARTICLE]

Denied a Vindication.

Eugene V. Debs and companion patriots who were being prosecuted for conspiracy, riot, rebellion, etc., by the railway managers through the United States court, were unfortunately unable to have their trial finished because of the sickness of one juryman, and the refusal of the prosecution to go on with eleven or substitute a new juror who should have the evidence read to him. It is safe to predict that these men will never be called to trial again, and will thus be denied the vindication which it is absolutely certain this jury would have given them. It is well to know that this jury was composed of farmers and the following report given in the same press that denounced Debs as an anarchist and criminal, is interesting reading. In speaking of the dismissal of the eleven jurymen the report says: “Then each juryman hurried forward to shake the hand of Judge Grosscup, after which they broke in a mass for the he fendants and their counsel. For half an hour Eugene V. Debs held an improvised levee with the jurors, one sa.y ing warmly, •We have learned to like you.’ ”