Show TWO NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPERMEN MEN LIBERATED Chicago Deo Dea 7 Andrew M Law Lawrence Lawtence rence tence managing editor of or Chi coga oga American and II H I 3 S Canfeld a reporter who were sentenced recently by y Judge to forty and ant thirty days respectively resl In the Uio Ilo county Jail for tor contempt of court discharged from custody by b Judge Dunne Duane today In 1 granting a writ of or habeas corpus to t tb ii relators tho the court said ld tho the case hinged oil ou Ol whether the case on which the ta th Aj commented had been beon die dis disposed pending pen posed of by Judge juge lle or was wan WIB still sti stipen i Dunne Dimne Due hold held that that the caso cana CIO In inq q lon had hod ho boon oon Anally disposed of t by Juaire Jud Hanecy when he save gave his hil do de ciMasi oO from tron tro the tie bench The that th th the clerk cleric cerk had had not entered the order t I tho ho comment on the decision lon was printed and und published therefore does docs not show that the cane CLIO was still pending The Te act of ot entering the order r er on record WIS was merely a 1 ministerial act nt acts Judge Dunne Duane Dune said Judge Dunne Dunno DUlno admitted that tho the arti articles des cles and cartoon which Judge Hanecy Hancy objected to wore ware clearly calculated to and Id coerce tho the court had lied tho the court not already II ra y rendered Its I decision Juare Dunne admitted that the cartoon In evidence was probably libelous and Ill tile tlC articles possibly so soL soI L I Harsh criticism Judge Judg Dunne Duane Dunn re remarked rl remarked marked Is one of or the tho Incidents and burdens budens of or 1 I see no reason reanon rason why I ai judge should be afforded u I dier ent ant remedy for tor attacks in the tho public prints that a President or n a governor or r a I congressman Criticism of ot a 1 public If It just will vIli wU do good god If I unjust will wi do no harm harmIn In ra 11 concluding the tho court said mid I nm am t clearly cearlY of ot the opinion that the language used In open court by Judge Hanecy amounted us to u n final Unal order disposing of nt tho the cane cose under consideration and that b n ft final order orderS under the doctrine K of fic contempt as laid Ia l down In this Uis state by our supreme court In Story vs i Tho The that tho the relators had a right 0 to tl 1 comment and anI criticise that decision even cen to tho the extent of ot libeling the hon lion honI honorid orid I and respected Judge who rendered tat opinion without exposing them themselves that selves to prosecution for contempt of ot I I court cirt i Following Is 10 Judge Jule comment on n Judge Dunnes Dunns decision Judge ludge DurinG Dunne had the tle power so ROtO to do dorle Ide but he ho did not flat have hae the right Any An Judge ude has hn the tho power to let every prison prisoner ler or er out of Qt tho the penitentiaries but they hae not the right nor does anybody expect that they will wi 1 The rIe contempt case anti and nai the he habeas corpus hearing which followed dew tresY row out nut of ot an nn effort before by the Chicago t American to secure an order for tor nuo proceedings to compel tho the r Peoples People Gas ois Light and company to show how by 1 what right they operated lit hi II Chicago V Judge Hancey refused to 0 allow the H quo flue warranto proceedings pr anti and following this hue refusal the American printed arti p den cles cle and nn n t cartoon strongly Intimating that the judge had been duly dul Influenced and an that when he again came up for election ho b would ouM discover that th peo pea people people plc had 10 confidence In hm Judge Hancey Hance Hell died and with others otherl of or o the paper for tor and found Lawrence nod auti nut Canfeld gull guil guilty ul ty W v n Hearst owner oner of or the paper Iler Clara Claro and Homer Davenport cartoonists have not been within the of the court ourt anti the lie con contempt contempt tempt charge still mill rends against them Tho The evidence bv by Judge Hancey wan rt before Judge Dunne I |