The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-30
SENTE need
Terms of From One to Seven
Years Melted Out
To 33 of the Defendants in the
Dynamite Cases.
HEAVIEST PENALTY To RYAN
Punishment Is Suspended on
Five of the Prisoners.
Probably Will Be Sent to the
LeavenwOrth Prison.
NOT PROPERLY Defended
The Court Criticises Conduct OF
Prisoners Attorneys.
Expresses Sympathy with
Some of Convicted Men.
Punishment Is Suspended on
Five of the Prisoners.
Probably VIII Be Sent to the
LeavenwOrth Prison.
NOT PROPERLY DEFENDED
The Court Criticises Conduct OF
Prisoners Attorneys.
Expresses Sympathy With
Some of Convicted Men.

Indianapolis. Dec. 3O.-Sentences vary
ing from seven years Imprisonment IL
the federal prison at LeavenWorun un'
Kan. to one year and one day anu "
SUSPENDED sentences, were TO-DAY IN
posed upon the 3S labor union otnclaIs
convicted in the dynamite conspiracy
cases. Frank NJ. Ryan, president OF the
Iron workers International union was
given a sentence of seven years.
Olaf A. Tveuimoe, of San Francisco
convicted on charges of aiding in plot
ting the destruction of the Los An
geles Times building and Eugene A
Clancy. also of San Francisco, were
given six years each
RYAN as head of the union received
the heaviest penalty of seven years
Herbert S. Hockin received SIX
wears. All the prisoners who received
prison terms are to be taken to 1eaV-
enworth, Kan, probably tonight
Those Given Prison Terms.
Terms of Imprisonment were imposed
as follows:
Frank NJ Ryan. president OF one iron
Workers union, seven years.
John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice presl-
Herbert S. Hockin, former secretary
and formerly of Detroit, six years.
olaf A. Tveitmoe, San Francisco, SEQ
retary of the building trades council
Eugene A. clancy, San Francisco
six years.
Phillip A. Cooley, New Orleans, six
years
Michael ]. Young, Boston, six years.
Frank ]. Higgins, Boston, two
J. E. Munsey, Salt Lake City, six
John H. Barry, st. Louis. four years.
Paul J. Morrin, st. Louis, three
Henry w. Legleitner. Denver, three
Charles n. Beum, Minneapolis, three
Michael ]. Cunnen, Philadelphia,
Richrad H Houlihan, Chicago, two
William S. shupe. Chicago, one year
Edward Smythe, Peoria, three years.
James E. Ray, Peoria, one year and
one day.
Murray L. PenneI, Springfield, ILL.,,
william C. Bernhardt, Cincinanti,
one year and one day.
Wilford Bert Brown, Kansas City,
three years.
Frank Painter, Omaha, two years.
Peter j. Smith, Cleveland, four
years.
George Anderson, Cleveland, three
years.
Michael Harmon, Scranton, Pa,
Edward E. Phillips, Syracuse, N. Y,
one year and one day.
Charles Wachtmeister, Detroit, one
year and one day.
Ernest G. w. Basey, Indianapolis,
three years.
Fred Sherman, Indianapolis, two
years.
Frank c. Webb, New York, six years.
Fred ]. Mooney, Duluth, one year
and one day.
William J. Mccain. Kansas City,
three years.
william E. Reddin, Milwaukee. three
years.
Suspended Sentence.
Sentences on the following were sus-
pended:
Patrick F. Farrell, New York
James Cooney Chicago.
James Coughlin, Chicago.
Hiram r. Kline, Muncie, Indiana
Frank ]. Murphy. Detroit
On motion of the government, Ed
ward Clark. Cincinnati, confessed dyna-
miter, who testified for the govern
ment was given a suspended sentence
Judge Anderson after the sentences
read from the bench a statement in
which he said:
THE evidence shows some of these
defendants to be guilty of murder but
they are not charged here with that
crime; this court cannot punish them
for it."
A remarkable scene in the struggle of
the wives of the prisoners to reach their
husbands attended the sentences. 1t
was ordered that all the spectators
should be cleared from the room and
prisoners be allowed to talk with mem !
bers of their families.
Some Plead for Mercy.
Some of the men made pleas for !
mercy; others wept in the arms of their
wives. but the court pronounced the /
sentences one b one regardless of the /
pleas.
Six men were given their liberty
through suspended sentences. These
included Edward Clark, of Cincinnati, i
the dynamiter. who confessed to blow
ing up bridge with the help of Hoe I
kin. He had uppeared as witness for
the government Ortie z. McManigal, |
another confessed dynamiter, was not
sentenced at this time. In some cases
sentences of one year and one day were
imposed so that these men might be /
confined in a federal prison. Prison /
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