Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-25 | Page 12 | Attorney for Wobblies Asks Change of Trial

Attorney for Wobblies I; Asks Change of Trial i MONTESANO. Wash., Jan. 26. The iltorney for the eleven alleged Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World, charged with murder in connection with the Armistice day killings at Centralia, Wash., filed a motion for a change of venue, at the opening of the trial here today. The attorney. George F. Vanderveer, in presenting tho motion, offered as exhibits clippings from northwestern newspapers which he maintained had tended to create a prejudice against the defendants. Objection to the presentation of such exhibits as had not made their appearance since the order of the court granting the change of venuo from Lewis to Gray's Harbor county was partially restrained by the court when Judge John M. Wilson ruled that he would consider only matters alleged to have occurred since the venue to this country was granted. In making the ruling the court upheld up-held the contention of counsel for the prosecution that certain of the exhibits exhib-its had "already been judicially determined deter-mined and ruled upon." oo