Show PRISONERS STILL HELD hen Chases Defense to Habeas Corpus I Cor-pus Writs Cripple Trok Colt Sept lS At ting All Otat General Tom McClel land appared in the District court today to-day and asked for a continuance for live days III the 1 habeas corpus proceeding on behalf of C II McKinncy and three oilier Ftrlko t leaders I tlic have been held as I prismerr in the military guardhouse for moiv than a week Judge Seeds ovci ruled the motion and adjourned court until afternoon Neither AdltGen Bell nor BrigGen Chose wer in court nor were the prisoners pris-oners produced BrigGen John Chase In his reply 1 through counsel assumed responsibility lor the military arrests The answer Illed on behalf of Gen Chase was largely large-ly based upon thc recent decision of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania in a r cabe growing out of the anthracite coal Htrlke of last year and known as the I Wadsworth case A private in the National i Na-tional Guard named Wadsworlh acting under orders from his superior officer Fhot and killed a striker He was prosecuted prose-cuted in the criminal court for murder find the case was appealed 1 to tHe Supreme Su-preme court which niter months ago exonerated him fioin responsibility for the killing The court held that the order or-der ordering the troops out to the strike district where disorder prevailed was a I f declaration of qualified martial law |