The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-12-29
PRESIDENT RYAN
! |SlAM0NG THEM
JuRa RETURNED VERDICT YES
TERDAY MORNING AFTER DE-
LEcERATif G OVER CASE FOR
MANY HOURS.
ONLY A FEW WERE ACQUITTED
PRISONERS WILL BE sEMTENcED
By JUDGE ANDERSON ON MON
DAY MORNING A DRAMATIC
SCENE IN COURT.
ONLY A FEW WERE ACQUITTED

Indianapolis, Ind, Dec 2S.-Thir-
found guilty of completely in the Nc
Namara dynamite plots, including the
wrecking of the Los Angeles Times
building.
Frank NJ. Ryan, president of the. In
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. was among
A.o9e convicted. He with others.
was accused of using the unions
funds to destroy the property of con-
Erar-oa'sl who refused to recognize
the union.
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Two defendants were found not
guilty.
The jury was discharged and court
adjourned until Monday morning. at
which time the sentences will be i'm
pused.
.Seifert and Buckley, the only two
men out of the forty labor. union Of.
fcials to be adiudged not. guilty, I'm
mediately were discharged from Gus
tody.
After Judge Anderson had cleared
the court room of all spectators and
the families of the defendants, the
thirty eight prisoners were taken in
custody by deputy United States
marshals and were taken to the Mar
ION county Jail.
The men convicted included Off
cialS from various sections OF the
country.
BY it's verdict the jury also sus-
tanned the charges that the McNa-
mara brothers, now in prison in Cali
fornia, were aided in the nation wide
dynamite plots by almost all the ex-
ecutive officials of the iron workers
union, and that they knowingly car
ried on the conspiracy for years by
causing explosives to be transported
ON passenger trains.
As head of the union of IL, 200 mem
bers, President Ryan once sat in the
councils of the American Fereration
Of Labor.
Tveittmoe, of San Francisco, was
charged with not only supplying two
men to assist in blowing up the Los
Angeles Times building, but also with
having asked for more explosions. He
is secretary of the California Build
ing Trades Council, and editor and
a leader in labor circles on the cost.
AL he head of those found guilty
is Herbert S. Hockin, called the Iago
of the concpiracy,' because he was
charged with first initiating Ortie E.
McAIanigal as a hired dynamiter
and then with betraying all the dyna-
miters to promote his own ambi-
tions. 1t was he who, once secretary
of the International union, whisper
ed into the ear of Detestive Burns
the names of the Los Angeles dyna-
miters.'
John T. Butler. vice president of
the iron workers, was also convict
ed, having been branded by the court
as "perjurer' after he had denied
that Mcnamara was drawing $1,000
a month to pay for dynamiting.
A scene almost ragic was enacted
in the court room in the few L-A4-
after the trials conclusion.
AS United States Marshal Ee
Schmidt ordered the prisoners one "
one to step before the court, the WI
YES OF a score of the men in the rear
of the room eaned pitifuliy over
the ratings, calling for their hus-
bands.
Mrs. Frank ]. Higgins, Of Boston,
collapsed. She had been crying hys-
terieallyh
& Another disposition was shown ny
Mrs. John H. Barry.4of st. Louis. with
a s1nile she threw her arms about her
husband, begging him to have eosr-
age. BE of good cheer John" she
said, you cannot expect a severe pun