The Police Chief vs. the Newspaper Editor
Telegraph editor Charles H. Loggin will face a libel jury over articles calling Chief Rogers dishonest, with the chief's own lawyers joining the state's prosecution.
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The case of Charles H. Loggin, editor of the Telegraph, who is charged with libel in printing articles tending to show that Chief of Police Rogers is dishonest, will be tried Tuesday, August 7. Everything was lovely in the proceedings yesterday, and at last Allen & Powell, Rogers's special attorneys, were admitted to the case, although the day before Mr. Powell intimated that he might withdraw.
Prosecuting Attorney Miller was in court in person and asked Judge Glasgow to allow Allen & Powell to be associated with him. Attorney Wiley objected on the ground that, with three lawyers in the prosecuting attorney's office and none of them sick, the state ought to be able to get along alone. Judge Glasgow, however, granted the request, and Allen & Powell came into the case. After some argument, the trial was set for Tuesday, August 7.
“With three lawyers in the prosecuting attorney's office and none of them sick, the state ought to be able to get along alone.”
A newspaper editor accused of libeling the police chief, and the chief's private lawyers joining the prosecution, reads like a modern fight over press freedom and police accountability. The outcome would decide how far a Seattle paper could go in accusing public officials of dishonesty.
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