The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-28
cORcORAh Is CONVICTED
rNlOy RIOT LEADER SENTENCED
TO SEVENTEEN YEARS.
viesisa Means That osA&r rarsA-
cipa.ts In the Dynanitinx NJ
WarAaer WIN Now stand Trial.

WALLACE. Idalxs. July Paul corce-
ran Was this sssrning found guilty Of muir
der IL the second degree by a tury IN the
district court for the killing Of James
Caeyne at Waraner on April - iast dur
ing the riots. when q mob OF Ice miners
blew up the Bunker fhil and sullivan con-
contractor Judge Stewart this afternoon
sentenced Corcoran 10 serve seventeen
years IN the renitertiarv.
Corcorans WIS considered q test case.
and had be been acquitted IL IS improbable
that any 81 tire other 90 men who are un-
der arrest would have been tried for par
ncipation IN the riots and murders at
wardner. This afternoon however, Judge
Stewart set the trials % Israddock and
Inman on a charge Of numbering Schmidt
and Chsyae for September T. The inal Of
Cnrccran consumed about one month and
attracted wide attention in the
United States. especially among
union lahorers The iaYymen were
from a distant portion OF the county. and
consisted Of farmers and miners Hundreds
OF witnesses were examined. and roth the
state and defense were represented by
able counsel The jury retired about 10
o'clock last night after listening 10 the
charge Of Judge Stewart. and al I clock
this morning verdict OF murder n the
second degree was agreed upon. Within
night eleven of them favored the verdict
finally rendered, but one man held out six
hours for murder IN the first degree
Under the Idaho laws murder in the
second degree - punishable by tmprssoEs-
ment from ten years to life, Many PROM
nent members OF the miners union here
Today expressed great surprise at the YER
dict and stated that they confidently ex-
pected an aequittai Although the union
men consider the sentence Of seventeen
years severe. no move has Yet been made
by Corcoran's attorneys for a new trial,
and IL is stated that none will be made
The crime for which Paul Cercoran was
today found guilty and sentenced to sew
er,een years in the penitensiary was COM
mitted al Wardner on Aprn = last, when
a mob or 30 miners captured a Nortaern
Pacific train here and rode to Warfner
and blew up the Bunker Hlti and Sullivan
ccpcensrstor with dynamite. During the
riot hundreds OF shots were fired and two
men, Smith and Cheyne. were killed. The
trouble was Of long standing and grew cut
OF the refusa! OK the Bunker Hin and Sui
Ivan Company 10 recognize the miners
union The miners union demanded that
all non-union men be discharged by the
Bunker Hill company and that only union
miners be employed The company de-
cined 10 accede TO the demand and the re-
suit was their concentrator at WaTdner.
valued at quarter OF million dollars.
was blown UP with dynamite. About 80
miners are now under arrest charged with
riot, conspiracy, murder, stopping a mail
train and other offenses. Their trials Will
not occur until the next term Of court, in
September.
The congressional industrial committee
spent considerable time today with Man
ager B1rbridge, OF the Bunker Hin Com
pany. securing from him the anti-unIon
opinion in the Occur d'Ale8. troubles.
Ex-senator Lee Mantle. a member OF the
committee arrived yesterday and will re-
main during the session OF the committee.