The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-28
JURY REPORT TODAY,
OUT DAY AND A HALF
The Two Defendants Ac-
quilted Were Buckley and
Seiffert-Trial Has Been
Long Drawn Out and
Spectacular.

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eight labor union officials to-day were
found guilty of completely in the Me-
Namara dynamite plots, including the
wrecking of the Los Angeles Times
building. Frank NJ. Ryan, president of
the international Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, was
among those convicted. He, with others,
was accused of using union funds to
destroy property of contractors who re-
fused to recognize the union. Two OF
the defendants, Buckley and Seiffert,
were found not guilty The verdicts
were returned at 10 o'clock, the jury
having had the cases since Thursday ey.
ening.
All those adjudged guilty were found
guilty on all the counts as charged in
the Indictment. The jury was then dis
charged and court adjourned until 10
o'clock Monday morning when sentences
will be imposed Seiffert and Buckley
were discharged from custody.
BY its verdict, the jury sustained the
charges that the Mcnamara brothers,
now in prison in California were aided
in the nationwide dynamite plots by
nearly all the executive officials of the
Iron Workers union and that they
knowingly carried on conspiracy for
wears BY causing explosives to be trans
ported on passenger trains.
As the federal officer ordered the pris
oners, one by one, to step from the |
court the wives of score of men in |
the rear of the room leaned piteously |
over the railings calling for their hus-
bands. Mrs. Frank j. Higgins of Bos- /
ton collapsed
The possible punishments vary from
any minimum to maximum of thirty
nine and one-half years at the discre-
tion of the court. Each stands convc-
ted of conspiracy against the govern
ment, punishable by fine of $4,000
and two years in prison; ard each also
is guilty on 25 charges of Illegal trans
portation Of explosives, each punisha
Bile by Is months and a fine OF $1,000.
After Judge Anderson had cleared the
courtroom of all spectators and families
OF the defendants, the prisoners were
taken into custody by Deputy United
States marshal and special detectives
and were conveyed to the Marion county
jail
II was scene blended with tragedy
that confronted those who week after
week sat through the historic trials.
Now it was baby crying from the
rear OF the court room, where the wives
and children of the defendants sat now
it was the heavy voice of man seated
in the witness chair and defending him
self against the charges of nation
wide conspiracy. in which officials of ,
union labor were deeply concerned Wit !
nesses from near and far came and 4,
went. but those whose fate rested with a
the jury remained there, listening to
the accusation and to the oft-repeated
story of the killing of 2l people in the I
Los Angeles Times explosion.
The court room itself seemed a fit !
Ing setting for that sombre story. Sur q
rounded by great marble pillars, with /
he daylight shut out by heavy curtains, a
and the Judge installed before an alle :
sorical painting of Justice, that court :
room day after day echoed the stories o
# violence. of the discovery Of burnt \
Tuses aud bursted internal machines, OF h
visits by mysterious men in n
llleys, in empty houses. in lonely eoun a
ny roads. or on the tops OF buildings. q
The vision of dark spectre with q
bomb under his arm became a familiar 4
mage in the minds of those who lis q
ened Back of the ratings, amid the Ii
pectators, sat the relatives of the de- o.
endants. Three rows deep across the il
Dom were the defendants. Among the "
core of attorneys sat perhaps the most "
picturesque defendant. massive IL, build, ipl
Iorid in complexion, always studiOusly
ccupied. now copiously filing his note b,
'ook when the testimony was exciting nj
Iow. when the trial Jagged. burying his fe
pectacled nose in a Latin version OF in
lmar khayyam. lie was Olaf A. Tvcit- AZ
noe OF San Francisco ltl
Another man toward whom the ewes h.
{ the spectators often strayed was y.
ierbert :. Hockin He sat apart. be-
ween hailifIs. during much OF the trial, n
OF he had been branded by the corr; a. az
a man Who could not be trusted bv any 60
ne IL was Hockin who was named in
: having promoted the dynamiting husi- n
ess; il was Hockin who was accused Of "a
holding out on the pay 0f the dyna. ~
iiters; i was be who was said TO have bs
sused = quarrel in the ranks OF the Nc "
amarss and McManigal. and Il vas he oy
ho finally was charged with 'betrsying 80
ir his own gain" those with whom he -
nre associated, and With whom be was m
SLATED in the iron worlers' union.
GRAY haired and old beyond his wears ug
u Prank n. RYAN. president of the iron lea
oikeTs union, BY virtue Of which Office ! pe