OCR Text |
Show REDS IN COURT. A Seattle lawyer, one George F. Van-derveer, Van-derveer, who is acting as counsel for the members of the T. "W. W. now under arrest at Chicago, attempted to carry a revolver into the courtroom the other day when his clients were arraigned before Judge Laudis. A bailiff observe,! ob-serve,! a suspicious looking bulge in the hip pocket of the man, and investigated, investi-gated, with (he result that the weapon was confiscated and its owner put under un-der bond to answer to a charge of carrying car-rying concealed weapons. It- is perhaps per-haps fortunate for the Seattle attorney attor-ney that the bailp'f stopped him at the j door and prevented him from taking the weapon into the court of Judge Laudis, for something disagreeable woul 1 certainly have happened to him after he had been disarmed. The iiii'i ient gives rise to the su.-pi-c i nn that the Seattle lawyer belongs to the red brotherhood and carries the tools of the organisation about with him. It mtiv be. however, lhat it is customary for Seattle members of the 'bar to pro ide themselves witii automatics auto-matics when they appear in court to i argue a enso. If so. some leniency 'should be shown in the vase of Yander-j Yander-j veer, as he may have been following the custom of his home town. - Unless he can show this he should be punished pun-ished to the full extent of the law. ! It was a motley array that appeared before Judge Lai-.dis. Sune of the prisoners were well groomed and did not appear to in-long to the "low brow" class; others have been work-ingnien work-ingnien at- some period of their lives. I whi'e the remainder are loafers whose 'chief aim in life is to mahe trouble. ! Almos! all of them are "orators," b"t i,v far the larger number boio::g to the j soap-box variety cf harrangucrs v- ith which the big cities and seme of tr.-' J smaller ones were infested prior to The tie the 1. W. W. leiiicrs were rouud- !i: :.;:::n v.:.- :,!,:ong '..'ie d'-' 'eit''ants, ' a- 'i l-ci'imi I "'id.-i.an was an inter.?.-'!?-! -; - --.tt..r ' the pro- ee.iiues, both of -h'-... ui:ar-',!--s liaviD- been rr-1- a-'-1 . Ir.,.n f'.le--:i! ; risot.s on writs of habeas .-or; -us. Tin..? wis allowed the attor- - tie-.s for trie i;.-;'en-e to prepare their cus.-s. We have no wish to forecast the J le.eit of the trial of these worthies, j but we are of the opinion that the j 'propaganda of the I. W. W. is at an' end. and that anv further attempts t; I cause trouble will be cut short, very j I short. i |