The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-12-31
ION the Banks Of the Shannon, y
Followed By Crying Women
and Children.
RYAN SEEMED MOST AGED
When Sentence of Seven Years Was
Pronounced By Federal
Judge Anderson.
Press Dispatch.

| Aooo1iatcu : icSS DiSpdlCH.
Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 3O.-Im
prisonment in the federal peniten
tiary at Leayensworth, Kansas, to
day was imposed as a punishment O.
/ thirty-three labor union officials con
victed Of having engaged In the dc
struetion Of property by dynamite
over an area stretching from BostoI
to Los Angeles.
| AS the head OF the union who's
strike was given as the motive TO
| promoting the dynamite plots
Frank M. Ryan was sentenced Il
seven years Imprisonment, the heav
lest sentence of all He is presiden
iof the Iron Workers Internationa
Union. OF the thirty-eight mer
convicted as conspirators in the Nc
Namara dynamite scheme, eighi
other men. all affiliated with Ryan
were given prison terms of six years
Two men each were given terms OF
TOUR years, twelve men were each
given three years, four men were
each given two years, six men, were
each given one year and one day, and
siy men including Edward w. 9sfarK
Iof Cincinnati, a dynamiter who plead
guilty, were allowed their liberty on
suspension Of sentences.
The elimination of those who re.
ceiyed suspended sentences leavs thir-
ty-three who viii 60 to Leavenworth.
where the shortest sentence win be
ON year and one day.
BY the liberation of Hiram y
Kline, former official of the Car
penters Union, Olaf Tveitmoe. of
san Francisco, remains as the only
lahor union officials among the pris-
oners not related with the Iron
workers Union. But it was Tveit-
moe who was charged by the govern
ment with having conspired with
Ryan and Mcnamara for the destruc-
pion OF life and property on the Pa
CHIC coast. 1t was Tveitmoe VIII,
referred to as "a murderer who ought
70 be in prison along with the Me-
Nalnafas.
PROM the bench Federal Judge
Anderson read in connection with
the sentence a statement in which
he said:
The evidence shows some of these
aefendants are guilty of murder"
Steps toward appeals in behalf OF
aii the prisoners, to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals al
ready have been taken. Chester Fl. |
hrum appeared before Judge Ander-
ION late today to arrange for the
ling OF writs of errors. This
ormality may be done tomorrow.
Meantime Krum said there was no |
prospect for procuring liberty for any |
u the men. through writ of super
aedas or bonds.
All the prisoners are to 60 tol
What time the special
rain is to carry them there the
lnited States marsha1s refuse to
tate, as they have been instructed
0 Keep absolutely secret the time of
he departure and the route. 1t was
nderstood that no efforts were to be
aade to take the train out before to-
borrow. At S:i5 this afternoon the
7 llsoners, shackled to deputy mar
halls stepped out OF the federal court
uilding and on their march to the |
ounty jail began to sing ION the |,
'afiks of the Shannon. The sing
nf continued, with crying women
nd children following the procession
nth the Jail was reached. Every
tort Of the officers to stop the dem
nstration caused louder singing.
The convicted men arranged for
le disposition Of their effects and !,
their business affairs with
leir relatives and friends. AS soon !.
the relatives had said their fare
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