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The Bemidji Daily Pioneer
Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota
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In New York on Jan. 13, officers of William R. Hearst's New York American—Bradford Merrill, S. S. Carvalho, and Edward S. Clark—were convicted of criminal libel for an article accusing John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of establishing peonage in an Illinois breakfast food factory. They were held in the Tombs pending habeas corpus.
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New York, Jan. 13.-Bradford Merrill, S. S. Carvalho and Edward S. Clark, officers of the Star company, which publishes William R. Hearst's newspaper, the New York American, were found guilty of criminal libel on a charge preferred by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and technically committed to the Tombs prison. Magistrate Moss permitted them to remain in the private reception room of the prison while their counsel, Clarence J. Shearn, went before Justice Davis in the supreme court to make application for a writ of habeas corpus.
Mr. Rockefeller charged that the defendants had published a newspaper article accusing him of having caused a system of peonage to be established by a manufacturer of breakfast food in Illinois.
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Bradford Merrill, S. S. Carvalho, and Edward S. Clark, officers of the Star company publishing William R. Hearst's New York American, were found guilty of criminal libel on a charge by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for publishing an article accusing him of causing a system of peonage to be established by a manufacturer of breakfast food in Illinois. They were technically committed to the Tombs prison but permitted to remain in a private reception room while counsel sought a writ of habeas corpus.