The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-15

Convicted of crimlnally libelinE #
lice Commissioners Chris Manning,
and w. Douglas Gordon and Poll
Justice John y. Crutchheld, Adon
fodcr WAS last night scntcnccd by
jury in the Hastings Court to pny
fine of $50 and to serve term of /
for fifteen days. He su
mittcd to the verdict, nnd Immediate
entered upon his sentence in the Ci
Jail.
The case went to tic jury at 81
o'clock. within thirty-scvcn minufy
there Syns n rap on the door, and Jud,|
Harrison issued his order TINT the vel
diet should be received in silence.
aNShatcYcr the verdict may bc,"
said, s.I command you to receive 1t wit
the respect due to the court, AMI th
is In absolute silence
IN two minutes moro the Jury was
the box, and C'scrk walter EIisistt'I
read the verdict, "Wc, the jury, al
tho prisoner guilty as CHARGED, and 4
his punishment at aftccn days In la
! and n fine of SJO.' The verdict In Z
Police Court, where Magistrate Wilb'
GriESs presided, WAS the snmc rs
the Jail sentence, but 500 fine.
Prisoner Submits.
L Mr.. Meredith of counsel for tho d1
tense. Immediately asked to be ailoNI
ed fifteen minutes conference with nj
client. In twenty minutes he returi]
ed. and stated that Yoder would sui
nit to the verdict.
my CLIENT he said, though dis
claiming his guilt, has decided to s.t
NIT to tho verdict on account OF hna1
cial difficulties and because his col
nection with j. Marshall Atkinson III
been proven. That is all we have
say
Yoder stood on the right side Of h
attorney. his head bowed and j
hands resting on the chair I'm front
him.
"Mr. Yoder,' said the court, cha
you anything to say why senten
should not be passed on your" N
Meredith whispered to the prisont
and he remained unmoved.
Then said the court, Il senten
you to fifteen days in the City Jail al
to pay a cne of $50, in accordance wi
the verdict of the jury An offic
may now take the prisoner IN charge
The sentence was immediately.se g
fective. Deputy Atkinson stopped
the prisoners side. But before he WI
led away, the Rev. B. Frankiin Brya
pastor Of Emmanuel Baptist Church,
which Yoder is q member, shook nan
with the prisoner and spoke 70 nm
few words OF consolation. Then d
! der, accompanied by one or his brot
ers, who has been with him since q
/. heginning oe the trial OF Clyde sau
lders's suit in the Law and Equi
Court. started on his journey to q
| City Jail.
Heard Verdict iu silence.
| There was no demonstration. ~
verdict and subsequent proceedini
we're received in steadfast silenc'
The courtroom had been filed to owe
blowing all day, and the silence
! strictly enforced by the court wi
/ broken only by an occasional cout
or a muttered litter as a little raille
passed between Harry nj. smith, y
and the court. On the lower floor
I large crowd con gresated TO see You
pass. on his way out, but still the hu
/ prevailed There the last good
was said, and within fifteen minut
Adon Yoder had passed Within y
portals of the City Jail, there to !
4 main until he shall have served q
sentence imposed upon him.
/ Though the jury was out rath
longer thauswas expected, 1t was stat
longer by some of the membe
that unantmty as TO conviction ~
reached without word. The discu
sion was over the severity OF the Sc
tence. opinion being widely diverGel
| Some stood out for longer senten
and for a heavier fine, but Ii was
last agreed that to impose severcr pn
ishment on the guilty man would sor
only to make him out martyr al
an object of persecution,
serves Ends OF Justice.
There was also some consideratl,
for his wife and three children. al
1T was remembered, too, that Mr., Smst
in his argument. had made an a
peal for more mercy than Yoder HI
shown toward the objects of his libt
Gus pamphlet, y
So ii was at last asreed that
/ slight sentence would suhserve- Il
I, ends of justice, afford vindieatioH
4 the shrea prosecutors and 70 the mai
OF the city. which Yoder had desert
i ed as, politically, a rotten hole" Al
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