Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-04-16 | Page 1 | Sustains Old Law Against Newspapers |

Type	issue
Date	1906-04-16
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Sustains Old Law Against Newspapers
Type	article
Date	1906-04-16
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	1
OCR Text	Show SUSTAINS OLD LAW AGAINST NEWSPAPERS ST. PAUL, April 16. Judge Bunn. in the District court of . Ramsey county, today to-day filed an order uphqldlng the Indictments Indict-ments brought by the grand Jury against the St. Paul Dispatch, the Plo- neer Prees and the Daily News for publishing pub-lishing detailed storie3 cf the hanging of William Williams, a murderer who was executed In the county Jail here March IS. . V The newspapers wore Indicted under what 1b known as - the John Day-Smith law, which forbids the publication in newspapers of, the details of any public execution. The newspapers demurred to the Indictment Indict-ment and attacked the constitutionality of the law.
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