The record-union., 1894-05-09
TWO FORMER ALSO GUILTY OF
WALKING ON TIE. GRASS
A Crowd of Commonwealers Seize a
Train at Pueblo, Colorado, and Are
Now Speeding Eastward at the Rate
of Fifty Miles an Hour-No Truth
in the Pumor of Trouble Between
lndustrials and Deputy Marshals at
Sprague. Wash.
Special to the REcoRn-uN1oS.

! erS OF the COmmOnW eal-CoXey, BroWne
and Christopher Columbus Jones-have
been found guilty of violating the law by
jury of their peers, and will have to
submit to sentence hereafter to be I'M
posed by the court for their recent DEM
onstration on the Capitol grounds. Thus
ends, as the leaders stated, "the greatest
march of the nineteenth century,"
! All three of the accused were tried on
the first count Of the indictment, which
charged them with displaying banner
designed to bring into public notice the
! Coxey Good Roads Association. Jones
of Philadelphia was acquitted OH the Sec
ond charge, which accused lim of tread
ing on the grass, but Coxey and Browne
were convicted.
The jury retired at five minutes before
o'clock. after hearing long charge
from the Judge. which left but little alter
native to acquit if they followed his lead
ing. About $3.50 the jury sent for the in
structions given by the defense, but the
Government objected, and they filed into
the courtroom, while the Judge read the
instructions.
Young Attorney Hyman endeavored to
have the fact that the objection came from
the prosecution laid before the jury, but
he was suppressed. Judge Miller stated
that he would not have handed over the
written instructions under any clrcum-
stances, as that would have been lrregu-
lar. Twenty-Five minutes after this cpl
sode the Jury returned with the verdict.
General Coxey had been sitting
with his wife and his daughter. the God
dess of Peace OF the May Day demon
stration, but took his seat within the bar,
and all the party received the result
smilinglv except Mr.. Hyman, who was
on his feet with some objection to the
form in which the verdict was presented,
but who was sat upon by his colleagues.
The verdict was guilty as to the first
charge-carrying banners upon the Capt.
/ tol grounds-against all the defendants,
and on the second charge-walking on
the grass of the Capitol grounds-guilty
as to Coxey and Browne, and not guilty
| as to Jones.
Attorney Lipscomb Immediately en-
tered motion for new trial and another
in arrest OF judgment. Judge Miller gave
him four days TO file the formal paper.
Then the Judge made inquiries about
bail, and Frank Hume, a well-known
wholesale grocer, who several times has
run for the Democratic nomination for
| Congress from the Virginia district,
signed bond in $500 for each of the con-
| victed Commonwealers. General CoXey
pushing through curious crowd, which
made no demonstration. The conviction
of himself and Browne was a surprise to
the Commonweal sympathizers. Coxey
said it was evident this conviction was
not for what he had done, but because of
the principles IN behalf OF which ne had
/ announced.
Carl Browne remarked: 81 was sur
! prised at the conviction of Brother Coxey,
because he was plainly acquitted by the
evidence of any technical violation of the
statutes. For my own part, l expected
to be convicted"
Two weeks may elapse. during which
they will be free on bail, before motion
for new trial is argued and decided.
The penalty provided by the law is the
same for each offense, viz: fine not to
exceed 500 and Imprisonment in jail for
not more than sixty days, or both, within
the discretion of the court. Accordingly.
the punishment which may be meted out
to Coxey and Browne is 500 and 120
days, while Jones is subject TO Sl00 and
sixty days.
By a curious Congressional error in a
recent bill which reorganiZed the Dis
trict Courts, there is no Appellate Court
TO which a Police Court case can be car
ried. The only method of appealing
from Judge Milier's decision would be
by an application to higher court for
\ WrlGS OF DdDodS corpus anu coTLlOrdrl.
Attorney Lipscomb has announced that
he will take this step if Judge Miller
oyerrules the motion for a new trial.
| However, such petition will not operate
as stay of judgment to keep the defend
ants from serving their sentence while it
is pending.
| RESOLUTION FOR A CONGRESSIONAL IN
vESTIGATION.
WASHINGTON, May S.-Chairman Nc
Cam of the House Committee on Labor,
| completed the text of the joint resolution
for Congressional investigation of the
industrial unrest and incidentally of the
Coxey army movement. 1t will be pre-
sented TO the Labor Committee to-mor-
| row. 1t is as follows:
..Resolced, By the Senate and House of
Representatives that joint committee be
appointed consisting of three Senators,
TO be appointed by the President of the
Senate, and four Representatives, to be
appointed by the Speaker of the House,
whose duty it shall be to investigate and
report within thirty days the cause of the
industrial depression responsible for so
| much distress throughout the country,
and what legislation will induce and pre-
serve the industrial and financial condi-
tions that will offer speedy aud perma-
nent and lucrative employment to the
citizens of the United States"
1t has been reported that Mr.. Coxey
would appear before the committee to-
morrow, but this is untrue. Mr.. McCann
saws there will be no hearing. After the
resolutions are approved by Congress
hearings Will occur.
SEIZED A TRAIN.
PUEBLO (Col.l, May Sat $50 o'clock
this evening, as an engine on the Denver
and Rio Grande Railroad was taking coal.
the fireman being off the engine, it was
suddenly surrounded by fifteen of the
men under General Sanders, who
came in Saturday as Coxey
band. They took the engine ahd
ran the locomotive down to the
Missouri Pacific track, where six coal
cars that had been left short time be-
fore were coupled on. The whole band
boarded these cars and, attaching the Rio
Grande engine, started for the East at a
lively rate.
Four miles out they met an engine
which was coming In for the purpose OF
taking out the regular passenger train.
As all the rolling stock has been kept
near the town since the Cripple Creek
men arrived, the engineer reversed, and
is keeping ahead OF the Industrials. The
latter stopped their train at Boone aud
took coal and water. The engines passed
Nephesta, going fifty miles an hour. The
Superintendent has an engine and car
overturned in cut at Olney. so that the
runaways can get no further than that
point, and they may experience cOilis-
ion. A train will start from Pueblo at 10
o'clock in the morning with a Deputy
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