New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-30
WIVES bESIEGE JAIL
TO SEE DYNAM|TERS
1earfuIIy Talk to Husbands
through Bars and Block En-
trance with Baskets Of Food.
MAY DELAY SENTENCES
9S Prisoners Face Court To-
day. but Strategy of Defence Is
Likely to Defer Announce
ment of Punishment.

ment of Punishment.
Indianapolis. Dec. 29.-The thirty eight
labor union officials convicted OF conspir-
aev and OF promoting the Mcnamara
svuanite plots throughout the country
viu face tomorrow the prospect OF re-
eeving prison terms ranging from any
minimum TO a maximum Of thirty-nine
ana one-haf years. From their tempo
rary cells in the county jail the prison
ers handcufed between deputy marshals,
viii be taken before Judge Albert b. An
derson. Of the federal court. at 10 a. m.
Meantime the United States marshal,
Edward Schmidt, has arranged for a spe-
eial train TO leave this city by a secret
route for the federal prison at Leaven-
worth. Kan. To prevent possible demon
STATIONS on the way 10 Leavenworth no
details ss 10 the time Of departure are TO
be announced but fl IS known that the
train is 10 be ready TO start as soon as
possible after the court pronounces iudg-
ment upon the thirty-eight men. unless
some Of the prisoners are allowed their
Motions for setting aside the verdicts
and argument may delay the imposing OF
sentences until Tuesday Charles w.
Miller, the United States Attorney, first
viii ask for judgments on the verdicts
and the motions for setting them aside
may require full days session.
Court May Free Any Prisoner.
The entire responsibility for fixing the
amount OF the punishment rests with the
court. AS each Of the men was found
guilty on all the offences charged, there
being one offence carrying a maximum
Imprisonment OF two years and twenty
FIVE offences each carrying a maximum
punishment OF eighteen months. the court
may In its discretion impose any penalty
up 10 thirty-nine and one-half years.
any minimum" also leaves the court the
right 10 give liberty TO any prisoner by
suspending sentence or a money fine may
be imposed.
Prisoners who receive less than one
year are confined in county jails, but
those who receive longer terms must be
taken TO a federal prison The peniten-
tary at Leavenworth is the one used by
this district
That every effort would be exerted 10
regain liberty on bonds while an appeal
is pending for some OF the labor union
officials now in jail. including Frank NJ.
Ryan. president of the Ironworkers' IN
ternatonal Union. Olaf a. Tveitnoe. Of
san Francisco: Hiram +. Kline. a former
Official Of the carpenters union. and GER
tain OF the many business agents from
score Of cities. was announced by Chester
Krum. counsel for the convicted men.
5lr Krum has taken active charge OF ar
raugcments to carry the cases to the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
since Senator J. W. Kern went 10 Wash
.ngtou
The question OF bonds pending appeals
Is 20 come up after sentences are i'm
posed Unless the prisoners are able at
once 10 furnish the bonds fixed by the
court they must remain in prison. II was
stated that tha soonest any appeal might
be argued would be next April. Mr.. krum
said:
We certainly will appeal in the case Of
each man. There are about ninety errors
upon which VIC shall base the petition.
and We are confident OF an ultimate re-
Yersal.
This trial never will be reversed and
the men will serve out the punishments
imposed by the court" said Mr. Miller
Four in Each Cell.
Confined to two tiers Of cells. four pris-
oners 10 a cell. the men who. the govern
ment charged, engaged in the most wide
spread conspiracy for the destruction OF
property i'm the history of the country
remained to-day within four blocks OF the
Offices OF the international Association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers,
where John ]. Mcnamara, secretary of
the union. formed the plots, and where
dynamite and nitroglycerine We're found
at the time OF his arrest These were the
Offices from which. il was charged, he
sent out Ortie f Mechanical and Herbert
$. Hockin as paid dynamiters and start
Cd his brother. James p. Mcnamara, 70
carry on the destruction at Los Angeles.
with the loss of twenty-one lives.
Il also was in the ironworkers' offices
that many OF the men now convicted were
declared 10 have met 10 discuss the con-
spirsey and to appropriate the unions
funds for the purchase OF explosives All
but two of the officers OF the union,
brought from cities scattered from Bos-
ton TO Los Angeles. are now In jail.
McNamaras former Office was deserted
to-day, but the gray stone county prison,
BEARING over its portal Jail Entrance In
black letters. was besieged by hundreds
OF visitors. The scenes among the wom-
en- relatives Of the prisoners clamoring
10 be admitted were similar 60 those In
the courtroom on Saturday, chen about
thirty wives were separated from their
husbands Only those who had permits
were admitted to-day. but the entrance
10 the jail was filed with baskets Of food
tagged with the names OF prisoners.
Up until 1 o. m, when The doors were
Closed to visitors. people streamed I'm and
out OF the little Jail Now it was Hockin,
Termed the Iago Of the conspiracy" In
having started McMapigal into the dyna-
hitting business and then Switching on
MIN. who was called out OF his cell 10 talk
% his wife through the bars. Again II
vas Eugene A. Clancy, OF san francisco
o. J. f. Munsey, OF Salt Lake CITY
against both OF whom charges In connec-
uon with the Los Angeles explosion were
sustained or Michael J. Young, OF Bos- |
ION; Philip A. Cooley OF New Orleans
John T. Butler. Of Buffalo. Frank c.
Webb, Of New York. or Paul j. Morrin, or
~ Louis. who came TO the barred door
70 talk to lawyer or 10 member OF his !
family