The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-31
DYNAMITERS SENTENCED
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to the entrance wnne hundreds of spectators craned their necks and ] jostled each othar to see how the
 prisoners bore up under the strain
 As Anderson, of Clevealnd, the first man in the line, passed a moving pic
 ture photographer, he smiled and !, said to his guard
 He's on the job some of the men puffed ne~3ously lon cigars. others were still chewing toothpicks they used after luncheon in the federal building Nine minutes after Ander-
 son, the first man. left the federal
 building, the entire procession had
 reached the entrance of the jail A , few minutes later the handcuffs had | been removed from the last prisoner
 and the jail door had shut behind
 them.
 l The prisoners after they had been
 separated from their relatives at the 1 federal building. sang "Ch. Where is
 My Wandering Boy Tonight and re- ! reated the song a few minutes before
 thsy left the room for jail. Hiram Kline, who was released on suspended sentence, mingled with the men in the corridors. He was crying i as he bid his former associates fare well.
 Murphy of Detroit, one of the de- iendants, who was released under suspended sentence. said mot be- cause he let me go without punish ment, but lEcause l think 1t is due to him, want to say that fairer iudge never lived than Judge An derson am absolutely innocent. What l say about Judge Anderson, say in view of what l have observed al through this trial l wish all of the judges in this country, from the judges of the supreme court from the federal judges and state judges on down to the judges of the police court were like Judge Anderson,
 Any minimum which meant liberty through suspended sentence to a. maximum of g and one half years, were the limitations of the amount of punishment within which the court had discretion,
 ClarK's suspension of punishment, aftss he had pleaded guilty, thrown an Interesting light on Ortie F. Me Manigal, another confessed dynamit- CT.
 McManigal already had pleaded gnilty to the charges here. but he was brought nre as q prisoner Of Los Angeles county, where he also plead ed guilty. He is to he returned to Los Angeles in connection with furth- CT investigations there,
 The fact that Clark received a sus- rendsd sentence was regarded as significant in possibly presaging leni- ency toward McManigal McManigal however, confessed personally to causing twentyone explosions.
 All the men who received six year sentences, excepting Munsey and Bar ", of St. Louis, who received four years and Beum of Minneapolis and LegIietner of Denver. who each re- ceived three years. were present or former members of the Iron Workers executive board As such, they were accused of appropriating out of the union funds $1,000 a month for Sec retary Mcnamara to carry on the dy- namiting campaign.
 The testimony was that part Of that money was used in sending J. B. McNamara 10 the Pacific coast to blow up the Los Angeles Times build ing. that the money was paid to Mo Namara in checks signed by Presi-
 dent Ryan and marked 'by order of the executive board" and that Leo
 N. Happaport, an attorney for Me Namara. after visiting the dynamiter
 at San Quentin prison. came back to Indianapolis, and at MeNamara's s di- recton destroyed a small blue check 1 hook in which the record Of the dyna- 1 hitting expenses was kept
 All the men who received suspend l ed sentences were among those who tsstified in their owu behalf. Ryan
 testified in his own behalf, but Tveit- moe Clancy. Webb. Bockin, Munsey, young and Cooley did not The court
 instructed tne jury that the fact that these men did not take the stand was
 not to he consid red against them. Two little girls gave the chief testi- mony against Anderson and Smith Of ] Cleveland. They said they vera walk l ing along country road near North Handals Ohio. one evening, when they
 saw Smith and Anderson carrying q box. It was the same box in whHh fhe government charged, WAS carried