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...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...
Ralph Coghlan last year wrote a rousing editorial that began: "St. Louis is confronted with a reeking, stinking scandal, and Circuit Judge Eugene L. Padberg is sitting right in the middle of it. ..." Fitzpatrick upheld his end with a cartoon series showing politicians and racketeers together in an ugly, symbolical St. Louis sidestreet called "Rat Alley...
...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...
...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...