Commonwealth ex rel. Wadsworth v. Shortall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Habeas corpus, Miscellaneous Docket 1902, No. 87, Western District, in the matter of Commonwealth ex rel. Arthur Wadsworth v. William Sliortall. Petition for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of the relator against respondent, a constable who had him in custody under a warrant of arrest for homicide, issued by a justice of the peace in Schuylkill County.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
A somewhat full statement of the facts will be conducive to the proper understanding of the case.
During the summer of 1902 a strike, beginning with a labor union known as the United Mine Workers of America, spread through nearly the whole of the anthracite coal region in Pennsylvania. As time progressed it was accompanied with increasing disorder and violence on the part of the strikers and their sympathizers, so that threats and intimidation not only of men but of their women and children, rioting, bridge burning, stoning and interference with railroad trains,…
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