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Show EUGENE I DEBS PLACED ON TRIAL Former Socialist Candidate Faces Charge of Violating the Espionage Act. INDICTED LAST JUNE Seditious Remarks Made in Address Before Party State j Convention in Ohio. . CLEVELAND. 0., Sept. 9 The court j room was crowded today when Eugcno iV. Debs, former Socialist candidate for president, was placed on trial before Federal Judge D. C. Westenhaver, charged with violation of the espionage espion-age act. , , Among several prominent Socialist leaders in the audience was Mrs. Rose J Pastor Stokes of New York who re-, re-, cently was sentenced to ten years im- prisonment by a federal grand jury !in Kansas City on a similar charge. She is out on bail pending an appeal. Debs was indicted! by the federal grand jury June 9 forromarks alleged Jo JiaSijsxyijadjjSu address- before be-fore the slate convention of the Ohio Socialist party at Canton, 0., June G, last. -United States District Attorney Edwin Ed-win S. Wertz will conduct the government's govern-ment's case assisted by Joseph C. Breitcnstcin and Frank B. Kavanaugh, assistant United States district attorney. attor-ney. Seymour Sledman who defended Mrs. Stokes and' William A. Cunnau i of Chicago, Joseph Shorts, of Dayton land Morris Wolfe of Cleveland, are I named as attorney for Debs Morris I Hillquist of New York was forced to withdraw on account of ill health. |