The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-30

Indianapolis. Dec. so-seven years at
 hard labor in the federal penitentiary
 at Leayenworth, Kan, was the heavi-
 est penalty imposed by Judge Albert
 B. Anderson, today, on the 38 noted la
 Dor leaders branded fe1ons by a, jury
 in the dynamite conspiracy case. This
 was the punishment neted out to
 Frank M Ryan. president of the In
 ternationaI Association of Bridge &
 Structural Iron Workers, and was one
 other men who were considered Ryans
 chief 1ieutenants in destroying the
 works of the American Bridge Com
 pany throughout the country.
 Six men got off with suspensions of
 sentence while the penalties imposed
 the others ranged from one year and one days imprisonIneHt fo the sen
 sentences, other than that imposed on
 Ryan, was six years, the penalty fix ed in the cases of John T.. Butler, of
 Buffalo vice-president, Eugene A.
 Clancy, San Francisco, Olaf A Tveit-
 moe, secretary of the California Build ing Trades Council and head Of the Asiatic Exclusion League, San Fran cisco Herbert s. Hockin, former secre-
 tary of the Ironworkers. of Detroit Michael J. Young, vice-pres1dent Bos- ton, and J, E. Munsey, organizer, Salt Lake, alleged to have been the man who gaEe~a place of refuge to Jim
 McNamara following the destruction Of
  rick Cooley, New Orleans, and Frank Webb, New York
 Four years in the penitentiary was the fate of John H. Barry of St. Louis and Peter J. Smith, of Cleveland, O., district organizers.
 Three years was the penalty that
 polls, Murray l.. Penal, Springfeld, Ills. Edward Smythe, Peoria, Ills,
 Henry w Legleitner, Denver, George
 6HtteF nnoTn nsat s Basey Tndi annapolis, Paul J. Morrin, St. Louis William E. Reddin, Milwaukee, Mi
 Mccain and wilfert Bert Brown both
 of Kansas City and Michael Cunnan, | Philadelphia.
 Two years Imprisonment was order Boston, Frank R. Painter, Omaha, Richard Fl. Houlihan, Chicago. and
 Fred sherman; Indianapolis | ty for William c. Bernhardt of Gin cinnati, James E. Ray, Peoria, Ills,
 William shoupe: Chicago, Edward csrd u,as E; l Wachmiester, Detroit, and Fred J.
 Moony, Duluth.
 Sentence was suspended on Patrick 1 F. Farrell New York, James Cooney, 1 Chicago James H. Coughlin, Chicago,
 Frank J. Murphy. Detroit. Hiram
 Kline. Muncie, Ind, and Edward l In sentencing the men, Judge Ander- son read a typewriter statement | which said in part:
 Two of the defendants in this case, ] McManigal and Clark, have pleaded 1 guilty and testified to their participa- | ton in and knowledge of the conspir- acy and it's execution. The principal l of those is McManiga1 whose story as | testified to upon the witness stand was 1 given in such manner as to. of itself, l carry conviction of its truth. But in l addition to this, his testimony is cor 1 roborated by letters by various offic- l CTS of the organization, by records, in 1 ho ,1x1s 411o 1I1
 panies. express companies, telephone l companies and of the United States 1 police. by hotel registers and other
 means which leave no doubt as to the l truth of his testimony both in sub 1 stance and in detail.
 This scheme or campaign of dyna- 1 ite was entered into and carried out l throughout the country from the A t. 1 lantic to the Pacific and incidentally 1 involved the Illegal transportation of 1 dynamite and nitro-glycerine upon the l railways and cars of common carriers l carrying passengers from state to state.
 list of crimes in addition to those | charged in the indictments. These 1 crimes were all committed in the name 1 of organized labor. I will not believe l that organized labor approves such
 practices. Any organization that ap- proves and adopts the methods of 1 these men is out1awed.
 I The evidence clearly establishes that each of the defendants found guilty 1 by the verdict of the jury was a mem 1 Der of this conspiracy and in some l measure aided and abetted In the ille- gal transportations alleged in the in- 1 dictment. Upon this proposition there l can be no reasonable doubt''
 The narrowing scenes which ensued 1 when the men were found guilty were | repeated, today. The wieres and oth- 1 CT relatives semed to have resigned l themselves to the fate Of their loved l enes, however, and it was in a con- siderably lesser degree.
 1 Court opened promptly at 10 l o'clock. District Attorney Miller l moved the court to pass judgment md lsentence on the verdict of guilty