Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 1 | Socialist Attorney Cited for Contempt

SOCIALIST ATTORNEY CITED FOR CONTEMPT SEATTLE, Wash., Sopt. 18. Thor-wald Thor-wald Siegfried, attornoy for the radical radi-cal wing of tho Seattle Socialists, who recently preferred chargos of mnlfcas-nnco mnlfcas-nnco and misfeasance agninst Su- Eerior Judge John E. Humphries oforo the grievance committed o"! tho Seattle Bar aBSoclation, vrvi cited today by Judgo Humphries to appoar before him next Thursday and show oauso why he should not bo punished for contempt. Judgo Humphries based the citation on tho affidavit of a Bpccial prosecuting prosecut-ing attornov, who declared tho attompt to disbar the court was made "for the purposo of intimidating and ombarraBS-mg ombarraBS-mg said Judge John E, Ilumphrios" in connection with injunction proceedings for tho suppression of streot speaking.