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What Judge Rowe did not know, and no one else told him, was that the two editorials for which Editor Coghlan may go to jail (and which he approved) were actually written by Irving Dilliard...
...contempt of court because they criticized the dismissal of an extortion suit against a State Representative (TIME, March 25). Last week Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe slapped a $2,000 fine on the Post-Dispatch, dismissed the citation against Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese, but hit Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan with a fine of $200 and 20 days in jail, Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick with $100 fine and ten days...
...went Coghlan and Fitzpatrick in a sheriff's custody but were soon released on a writ of habeas corpus pending review of their case by the State Supreme Court. A silent spectator of these maneuvers was scholarly Irving Dilliard, editorial writer for the Post-Dispatch. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard last year (TIME, April 8), Dilliard is an authority on the Supreme Court, a good friend of Justice Felix Frankfurter...
...made a laughing stock. The next day, in another courtroom, the force of the law strikes with lightninglike retribution. ... A case? Yes and no. No, if you are in criminal division before Judge Rowe. If you are in civil division before Judge Oakley, yes-emphatically yes!" With Editor Coghlan's blast ran a biting cartoon by Daniel Fitzpatrick...
...Post-Dispatch. Sharp, cantankerous Circuit Attorney Franklin Miller (whose prosecution of the case against Putty Nose was called by the Post-Dispatch "one more in his 11-year record of dismal flops") filed an information for contempt of court against the Post-Dispatch, its Editors Reese and Coghlan. its Cartoonist Fitzpatrick. Judge Rowe decided there was cause for action, ordered all three to appear in court this week...