Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-01
HAVE THRY ENoUGH Ar LAsra

The Weibel BoyeoGters Ftned-Fur-
Their Evidence That Boycotting Will
Not be Tolerated I'm N LaW-Ab1ding
CIty-JudEe PIckett's F1nding-He
Says All Mon Are Created Equal
ScheibeI Fined 5000, and WaltxgOtt
and Gerst $55 Each.
Judge Pickett yesterday found Otto Schei-
bel, Julius Waltzgott and George Gerst, the
members of the Brewers union, guilty of
boycotting and conspiring against Brewer
Weibel. In Scheibels case the penalty was
made as severe as the law allowed, a 5000
fine and six months imprisonment, az he
was looked upon as the chief conspirator,
while his two assistants were let off with $75
fines and costs.
That any form of boycotting will not be
tolerated in this city is an assured fact. It
is pity that those who want to prevent
other people from working and getting an
honest living have not yet found out that
there is law against such conspiracy.
Judge Pickett's decision is as follows:
Tho court finds in this case that the complaint
by ne Is n1ure and
one Joseph Schneider, by further conspirng by I'M
was lawfully carving on business in said New Ha-
ven, to discharge said Schneider from his laWru.
employment as foreman of the brewery OF said
I'm the opinion of the court the agreement to-
gether between two or more persons and their con
hinder or prevent any man from procuring WORK
ach nl Wages as Il IS wiling to accept OF to
any man to leave such employment against his Will
against his viii to discharge him from such en-
pIoypent, if the same is lawful, is conspiracy.
subversiye of individual rights, and high crime
THE court is further OF the opinion that such
Persons, designed By means other than lawful CON.
petition to prevent any person engaged IN "a ia
market and purchasers for such goods, is also a
common law offenso analogous to the statutory OF
tense Of INJURY 70 Inc erog 1ofb for
which the penalty may be $500 fine or seven years
Imprisonment
matien Of either or both the purposes naed Is "
the opinion Of the court an nat ann
tonal and legal rights by sefconst1tuted dlctators
ercised by the State itself without violation OF its
fundamental law.
dependence, to witt That all men are created
equal; that they endowed by their creator with
life MbertV and the pursuit Of happiness has after
immense sacrifice OF life and treasure been IN
stitutions and laws nation and State. and under
them every mans right to the pursuit or haPpl-
ness by the selection OF his business or employ
ment, and the time, place and circumstances under
which he shall engage IN the Same, which Is SO I'M
IawfnD is equsI with his right to his life and Hber
ty and if law-abiding citizens, employers or en-
ployes be projected against conspiracies to
prevent the exercise Of such right the law will be
justly brought into contempt.
Upon full consideration of the evidence in this
case which is in part direct both oral and written
and in part circrmstantial, the court finds all the
accused guilty OF the offense charged in the COM
plant and that said ofreAse is of character de-
signed to injure and Cypress the persons against
whom the conspiracy was directed, by restricting
them in the exercise Of their established lawful
rights
gott and Gerst fairly in the conspiracy charg
ed they held the relative position of servants to
Scheibei, their master, who appears to have been
the originator and instgator of the oense and the
most active and defiant in procuring its consump-
ton.
1.-THE penalties heretofore inflicted by this court
for offenSes of this character have been far from
severe, taking into view their dangerous charac-
ter In these it is the opinion of the court that
the public welfare demands penalties more severe
and the judgment of the court is that the accused
Julius Waltzgott and Otto Gerst pay fine OF $40
each and that the accused Otto Scheioel be punish
ed to the extent of the jurisdiction Of this court
by q fine of $500 and imprisonment for s1
months. The appeal bonds for Waltzgott and
Gerst will be $500 EACH and for scheibel $780,
All three appealed.