The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28

Families Broken Up.
About thirty wives with almost as
many children are separated from
their husbands by the verdicts. While
the scene was being enacted in the
courtroom the 4 year old son of Will
liam Bernhard, Cincinnati, one of the
defendants, was playing in the lobby
with red painted toy engine which
he had received Christmas. He had
become the pet of the federal build
ing and could not understand when
told his father was going away"
Almost the entire staff of executive
officials of the Iron Workers union was
convicted. The only officials not on
trial were J. E. McClory, Cleveland,
now secretary and Ed. Lewis, San
Francisco, a member of the executive
board.
Charles w. Miller, the U. S. district
attorney who prosecuted for the gov
eminent said:
Nothing else could have been ex-
pected. The evidence of a national con-
spiracy which began in local smuggling
and assaults on nonunion workmen and
grew because local authorities failed to
prosecute became finally so bold that
dynamite was resorted to.
Dynamiters Grew Bold.
1.-The dynamiters grew bold in violat-
ing the federal laws in carrying the
deadly explosives on passenger trains
because they never dreamed of prose-
cution.
''That was what emboldened McNa-
mara, the secretary of the union to get
an appropriation of $1,000 a month so
that the work of destruction might be
carried out systematically. 1t was
what made him bold enough to send
his brother James B. Mcnamara to
blow up not only the Los Angels Times
building but also plot to blow up the
whole city of Los Angeles.
ton, mill f1I
organized labor. 1t will purge it of
the rough tactics. The whole United
States owes debt of gratitude to that
jury
The foreman of the jury was Frank
Dare, New Lisbon. Indiana, a retired
farmer All the other jurors were
farmers or country merchants.
Immense crowds assembled in the
streets about the federal building
when the verdicts were being
returned and when the prisoners
were brought out each handcuffed be-
tween two deputy marshals, the streets
became clogged and the police had to
force the people back. AS they emerged
handcuffed on the top steps of the
building with gray haired Frank Ryan
his face scanned with care in their lead,
the group of prisoners stood between
two colossal marble statues represent
ing liberty and justice. The scene was
bathed in a golden winter sunlight. The
crowds looked UP but were silent.
Silent too, were those who attended
the prisoners as in a file almost half a
block long they marched linked to their
captors toward the Marion county Jail.
People looked from upper parts of
buildings, from windows of street cars
and from the sidewalk.
March to the Jail.
For five blocks the prisoners thus
marched through the streets to reach
the Jail in the southeastern section of
the city. The only request by counsel
for the defense after the verdicts were |,
read by w. n. Harding, who asked
that the jury be polled. The judge re- |
piled that it would take too much time !
to poll each Juror on each count, |
against each defendant and the mat |
ter was passed
ANY motion by the defense will be |
made Monday morning when sentences !
are to be imposed. VIM. A Gray, |
Philadelphia counsel for Michael J. I
Cunnane said no attempt to get bail /
would be made today as he believed it
would be useless. He said, however, !
that an appeal on a writ of error would !
be made today and that bail pending |
the hearing of the appeal would be re- |
quested.
Jury Is Complimented.
In the report of the jury as handed |
in by Foreman Dare, the names of
Charles Watchmeister and Frank J. |
Murphy, of Detroit, and Hiram r. |
Kline of Muncie, Ind, were written on |
the margin of the sheet of paper and |
the court requested an explanation. |
Foreman Dare said the names were |
written in the margin merely because |
there was not enough room at the bot