Show WO o NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPERMEN MEN LIBERATED Chicago De Deo Dee v 7 Andrew M 11 Law Lawrence rence enco managing editor of Chi coga eoga ogo American and II IL I S a I It reporter t who ware sentenced recently T y I Judge to forty and Ild thirty days respectively In the Uio county jail for contempt of court were discharged dl from custody by Judge Dunne Duane today In Granting a a writ ri of ot habeas corpus to t Ib the tho the the court said case ease hinged on the case on which the thi commented hail had been dis disposed la pending posed I of by Judge Jud or was Wil still sUI sUII Judge Dunne Due held hEld that that the casu cne In question had boon M finally disposed of by Jude Jud e when whon he gave his do tIe dollo llo llo from the til bench b The fast that th the clerk derk hd hL not net entered the order when WhOA the tho comment commont on Oi the tho d was printed and published therefore does doea not show that the case caso was still pending Th T act net of entering the order on record was merely a I ministerial act Judge Dunne lunne said Judge Dunne Duane admitted that the tha arti articles art des cles ces and cartoon which Judge objected to wore clearly calculated led to toI I and coerce the court had ha the tho to court not already alry rendered Its ts decision Judge Ju eo Dunno admitted that the tho cartoon In Ia evidence was probably lIbelous and ad tho the so BO Harsh criticism Judge flume Dunne Dunn re no remarked rl marked Is one of the Incidents and burdens ot of 1 see eee no reason 01 J why a Judge 1 should be afforded a l differ different ent remedy for attacks In the tho public prints that a a President or a a governor or a a congressman Criticism of a I public official If It mat just will wi do de good it IC unjust will wi do 10 no harm harmIn In concluding tho lie court said Bald I nm am clearly of the th opinion that the tho language need in open op n court by Judo Judge amounted to a n final order disposing of It the tho cans cose under unGer consideration and that being a n final nal order under the doctrine of ot contempt as lS laid bald Inte down In this 1111 state statu by our supreme court in Story Stor VI vs The Tho People that the tho relators had a n right aright tp comment And criticise Iso that decision even cven to the extent of ot libeling tho the hon han honored honored ored and respected Judge who rendered that hat opinion without exposing thrill them themselves Ulma selves elves to prosecution for tor contempt of ot otc c court rt Following Is Judge comment m n a Judge Juda Jud o Dunnes Duanes decision Judge Dunne Duane had the power so RO to de tIe debut Ida but he did not hOt have the right nIght right Any has baa the tho power pow r to let every prison ever ir r out qt tho penitentiaries but bUl they nave ave IC not nt the tie right nor does anybody expect that they win will WI The Tho contempt case ant the habeas corpus hearing which followed rew cu ew tout out of ot an effort eNart before by tho tIm Chicago Chien go to secure an In order for tor quo 5 warranto proceedings to compel the Peoples OM Gas Jo Light and Coke compe company to shoW b by what right th they y operated II In Chicago Judge Hancey refused to allow the f QUO warranto proceedings and following 5 this refusal the American printed arti I des cle and a cartoon strongly Intimating that the tIme judge had boon been be n duly tuly influenced I 6 and aid that when he hI again came up for tor forr r elect election Inn ho h would discover r that that peo I Pie pIc hud had no W confidence In him Judge Haney cited cUell Lawrence La and C with others of ot the paper for tor and found and ant Caufield gull ty h W It I Hearst owner of the tho paper ul flare Clare and Homer HOler Davenport not been within the of ot the tho court anti the con comm ant charge stilt still tl against them f The Tho Th heard bv 11 lJ u e was IM Tn lowed before Judge Dunne Duane |