The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-19

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of the confidence reposed in him by the
masses, the convicted mayor interrupt
ed to say, II am here to receive sen
tence at your hands, and not to be
Inundated by lecture which the
newspapers can repeat In print" The
judge went on without replying and
said that Schmitz by his criminal act
bad betrayed that trust. He added
that the real punishment would not be
so much in the fact Of Imprisonment as
in the loss of respect and esteem Of al
good citizens. Schmitz again inter
rupted, saying he stood there as an
American citizen, not asking leniency,
but demanding his rights, and that if
the judge had any self respect he
would proceed with sentence. The lat
ter persisted. however. saying, you
will suffer the humiliation Of knowing
that your career of hypocrisy, duplic-
ity and dishOnor has been exposed
and that you stand before those who
believed and honored you morally
naked, shamed and disgraced." deny
that" cried Schmitz; 1.-THE people know
how / was railroaded through"
Afterward in q statement he said he
would fight the case to the last court
and that he would be q candidate for
mayor again next fall. The crowd
cheered the judges sentence.
Meyer and Haywood Testify.
The defense in the Haywood trial at
Boise spent several days in getting
before the jury lengthy dispositions
Francisco concerning the explosion in
the house occupied by +. w. Bradley,
the former mine manager whom Or
chard had included in his list Of at
tempted assassinations. Linforth,
owner Of the apartments, had sued the
gas company for damages, and had
brought numerous affidavits to prove
that the explosion was caused by gas
leakage. Bradley himself swore that
he smelled the odor of gas just before
the explosion occurred, and he attribut-
ed the ignition to his lighted cigar. He
was an expert on the effect of dyna-
mite and giant powder and did not de-
tect the fumes Of either. Several de-
tails of Orchards story about this
incident were directly contradicted by
witnesses. One man had passed the
entrance to the Bradley house two min
utes before the explosion and saw a
servant at work cleaning the porch.
The court excluded part of the evil
dence offered, including the affidavits
of Governor Gooding and Detective
Mcfarland, which had been sent to
the San Francisco Gas company, which
also contained contradictions Of Or
chard. The court also excluded evil
dence offered by the defense to prove
that Mcfarland had tried to manufac-
ture testimony against Haywood.
President Meyer of the Miners fed
Grafton told his story of the events
connected with the organization of
which he is the head. With complete
assurance and frankness he made gen.
eral and particular denials Of all the
Orchard accusations and told fully Of
the few occasions when he had been
brought into contact with Orchard.
whom he had treated as q member of
the federation. Meyer denied that he
had ever paid any money to Orchard.
He recounted his various experiences
during the strike period and was al
lowed to tell most of the circumstances
OF his arrest upon the Steunenberg
murder charge. Finally President Moy-
er identified the entire official CORE
spondence connected with the legal aid
offered by the federation to Orchard
when he was arrested on the charge of
numbering Steunenberg. This was ex-
planned by the general policy of the
federation to defend It's members when
accused Of crimes and also on the
ground that the federation was suspi-
cIous Of conspiracy to connect it,