Claim

Claim 962

A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York returned a true bill charging the Press Publishing Company, publisher of the World, with fourteen counts of criminal libel.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement: A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York returned a true bill charging the Press Publishing Company, publisher of the World, with fourteen counts of criminal libel.
Field: action
Value: Grand jury returns true bill against Press Publishing Co.
About: incident 1909-us-panama-canal-libel-prosecutions
Source: United States v. Press Publishing Co., 219 U.S. 1 (1911)
Publisher: Cornell Law School, Legal Information Institute
Method: court record
Checked: 2026-09-26
Confidence: high
Status: current
Source date: 1911-01-03

Quotation from the source

a grand jury in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York found a true bill against the Press Publishing Company, charging the commission of alleged criminal libels, set out in an indictment composed of fourteen counts.