Show AN UNU UAL CASE BEFORE U So COURT NO IThe case of for at tho bar o of time the supreme court of the United States Slates will be witnessed two from today In accordance with an today In the tho cases of Joseph If H Shipp or of Chattanooga Tenn and fl five e codefendants charged with contempt The Tho cases Caes orIginated In the courts Inn In March 1906 1006 to hear the appeal of a negro Eni Ed Johnson from froma a verdict cr lct of the Tennesee courts hinn guilty arid sentenced to ho be hanged on a charge of Ir criminal ns as Tine The after the Uon dont of the court to review the 1110 In time the ermine was wired to Chattanooga where Johnson I was aa to jail a mob d the jail and took him out arid and mini him The rho court was incensed and at It Its Instance the attorney general od Cd proceedings against Shipp who was wag the sheriff and 25 others ling tag the jailer supposed to have been Implicated In time tho charging them with contempt of tIne the supreme court Six found guilty These Shipp his deputy Jere GIbson who was the jailer lu Lii luther titer ther Williams Nick Nolan Hem Henry Padget and aind residents of The defendants entered motions for fora a rehearing with tine the effect of not action until time the present term The count toda today chief chlo Jus Jun tico luller Its denial Df tine the motions the chief justice at time tho sunie time ordering tine tho defendants to appear ott on No Nov 15 to La receive Time The court inns has time discretion olther to firma or Imprison tine the men ninen on 01 to In filet both penalties It Is only that tine the court Inns has appeared exceptionallY Interested In tho ho caBo caBe antI and andis is to feel feol that ann an must be made It is IJ recalled mow how oer that several eral of time the members or of ortho Ito tho court among whom was the thc late Justice Peckham from tIne the decision which mar nut have time the effect or of lessening tho tit severity of oC tine the sen tonce tom cc The Tho only instance of a sentence for contempt In the courts history oc cured in n when John Chiles wino who was nas in dealings tim In Texas bonds contrary to 10 an or on order onder der of the court was ordered to pay pat paya pata a line fine of All tine the defendants assert innocence Shipp and Gibson declare there was no advance indication o of violence to Johnson and say sar that otherwise the they would laken other precaution Some Somo or of Line men Implicated claim to have been present when tine the negro was killed b by tine the mob |