The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-09
WHEN SENTENCE WAS PRO-
III NOUNCED HATS WERE
Thrown IN AIR.
DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT
Convicted Mayor Protests Against
Fearful DenunciatiOn From
the Bench.
1pv the Associated press !,


SAN FRANCISCO, July S.-The
sentencing of Mayor Eugene E.
Schmitz to five years in San Quentin
penitentiary for extOrtion and the
commencement and partial compile
tiOn of the selection of jury to try
Vice-President Louis Glass of the
Pacific States Telephone company on
the first of ten charges of bribing SUI
pervisOrs were the features of today
in the briberygraft proceedings.
The sentencing of Schmitz was one
of the most dramatic scenes ever wit
messed in Western court, The eff
~fectiveness of the fearful denuncia-
tion of the convicted mayor as de-
liyered by Superior Judge Frank H.
Dunno, prior to. the passing of judg-
ment, was heightened by the de-
meanor of the prisoner, who time
and again interrupted the court to
demand that these humiliating re-
marks" be desisted from, and that
the court do it's duty" by pronoun-
cling sentence at once.
At the conclusion, as the words,
''be confined in the state peniten-
tiary at San Quentin for term of
five years." fell from Judge Dunne's
lips, the great crowd that packed the
courtroom burst into a cheer. Hats
were thrown into the air, arms were
waved and there was such an une-
strained clatter of applause that the
bailiff's pounding fo order could not
be heard
Once, while the sentence impend-
ed, the Judge threatened to send At
torney Metson of the mayors coun-
sci to jail for contempt because he
described the courts comments as
''cruel and unusual punishment"
and Metson was told by Judge Dunno
that he ought to be begging day in
court to defend himself against the
charge of having tampered with a
I. witness in the case Again, result
ant of the crowds cheering of the
sentence Judge Dunno observed that
''if we had sheriff worthy the
name the. disturbance would have
heen squelched. Sheriff O'Neil pro-
tested that nobody could stop it.
THE defense filed bill of excep-
tions after motion for new trial
and motion for an arrest of judg-
ment had been denied, and Judge
Dunno granted certificate of. prob
able causes upon which Schmitz will
go to the District Court of Appeals
for a new trial.
In Judge Lawlor's court six of the
twelve jurors to try Vice-President
Glass were finally selected and
sworn, after the prosecution had
used two peremptory challenges and
the defense four. To the former
three arbitrary challenges remain
and to the latter six. The days pro-
gress was in sharp contrast to the
slow and wearisome course dragged
out in the jury-getting preliminaries
of the Ruef and Schmitz cases.
District Attorney Langdon and AS
sistant District Attorneys Heney,
O'Gara and Chase, with Cobb, Mr..
ffe.iey's law partner, were present
for the prosecution. Attorneys d. M.
Delmas, T. c. Coogan and Henry G.
McPike, the latter of whom was as
sociated with Delmas in the Thaw
trial, represented the defense. There
was a complete absence of the spirit
of pickering that distinguished the
huef and SchmitZ trials, and fire.
quently lead to unpleasant encoun-
ters between bench and bar. as well
as between opposing counsel.
In all, eighteen veniremen were
examined during the day. 1t is ex-
pected that the jury may be COM
Melted by tomorrow night.