The late Judge William A. Woods figured as one of the principal judges
in the Chicago affair, issuing the injunctions, citing the strikers to
appear before him and sentencing them to jail without trial, but
President Cleveland discreetly omits all reference to him; and although
he introduces copies of many documents, his article does not include
copies of the telegrams that passed between Judge Woods from his home at
Indianapolis and the railroad managers at Chicago before he left home to
hold court in the latter city.
Judge Woods had the distinction of convicting the writer and his
colleagues without a trial and of releasing William W. Dudley of “Blocks
of Five” memory in spite of a trial.
Judge Woods is dead and I do not attack the dead. I have to mention his
name, and this of itself is sufficient.