Thanks, Amos and M. Ted. I'd forgotten that articles can disappear. Here is just one of them:

Monday July 30 10:31 PM ET
Jailed for Murder Case Notes, Texas Writer Defiant
By C. Bryson Hull

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A free-lance writer jailed by a U.S. judge for refusing to hand over information gathered for a book about a murder said on Monday that she was defending press freedom.

Vanessa Leggett, 33, remained in federal custody 10 days after refusing to give U.S. prosecutors notes, audio tapes and other material from interviews conducted for an account of the killing in 1997 of the wife of a millionaire Houston bookie.

``I am not a martyr, and I want to see justice done, but I am doing what I must to protect the public's interest in a free press,'' Leggett said in a statement released through her attorney, Mike DeGeurin.

Leggett, an adjunct lecturer in the University of Houston's professional writing program, conducted research into the murder of Doris Angleton, 46.

The victim's husband, former bookie Robert Angleton, was acquitted of state capital murder charges in the case in 1998. Robert Angleton's brother Roger was also charged but committed suicide in jail before he could go to trial. He left a note saying he had framed his brother in a shakedown plot.

Earlier news reports had said that prosecutors wanted tapes of an interview Roger Angleton gave Leggett just before his suicide. But two sources familiar with the case told Reuters on Monday that the U.S. Justice Department (news - web sites) actually wanted any tapes or notes Leggett might have made when FBI (news - web sites) agents approached her to ask that she funnel her reporting to them in return for payment.

JAILED AT CLOSED HEARING

At the request of Assistant U.S. Attorney Terry Clark, U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon ordered Leggett jailed for contempt of court at a closed hearing on July 20.

A spokeswoman for the Justice Department and Leggett's attorney both declined on Monday to comment on what prosecutors were seeking, citing the sealed nature of the hearing.

Leggett's predicament grew out of grand jury proceedings held to build a federal case against Robert Angleton, his attorney Mike Ramsey said.

If an appeals judge does not free Leggett or she does not surrender the material at issue, she will stay in jail for the length of the grand jury's term, currently 18 months, DeGeurin said.

Freedom of information advocates said they were disturbed by the secrecy surrounding the reasons for Leggett's jailing.

``We don't know (them) because the Justice Department is not talking about it and (her hearing) was conducted behind closed doors,'' said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Dalglish said her office would file a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Leggett's case when it was heard by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites), but she called the jurisdiction an unfavorable one for journalists trying to keep secrets.