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Show MOYER CASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT The attorneys defending Haywood, Moyer and Pettlbone, the Western Fed eratlon of Miners' officials, have secured a writ of error from the Chief Justin of the Supreme court of Idaho and v.11 go before the United States Suprem court at Washifigtqp; Tho attorney! originally asked for a writ of habeai 1 corpus for the three accused officers contending that their extradition fron Colorado was illegal and virtually kid naping. .Application was denied them Accordingly they applied to Chlel Justice Stockslager for a writ of error and the motion was granted. Attorney Fred Miller and E. F. Jtich ardson will go to Washington tc argu the motion before the United States Supreme court. The deilsion will be watched by lawyers all over the country. coun-try. Lawyer Miller declares that none o the defendants was a fugitive from justice according to the Constitution o the United States and therefore could not be extradited. He believes that th4 Supreme court of the United States will sustain him In this opinion. If this writ of habeas corpus is granted by the Federal court it will force Idaho to give up tha prisoners and permit them to return to ihelrtesi-dences. ihelrtesi-dences. An intricate question of la is involved, on which lawyers have been seeking a decision for many years None of the State's attorneys wer present in the courtroom when the application ap-plication came up for argument. |