The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-12-28
IS UNION MEN ARE -. :
GUILTY; LIMIT 80
YEARS IN PRISON

Drisoned. s.e- ,y+'
Court adjourned until Monday morn
ing. when II was believed the mel
Will be given an opportunity &c ar
peal. which was refused them today
Ryan said:
"This viii not cripple the union
The work will be done Just the same
under other oficers, IN case an ~
peal Is unayailing from this verdict
This conviction Is not blow Il
union labor" said United States Vt
torney Charles w. Miller, the prose
cutor, "but Is a distinct service tC
labor, In that IL ribs labor OF the stig
ma OF such men within its organiza
+ tion."
Judge Anderson refused to poll the
jury for the defense, declaring he had
done II privately, and that 1t would
take too long to do IL again.
Eugene Clancy and Olaf Tveitmoe
the Pacific coast defendants. accepted
their conviction stolidly. Tveitmoe's
only Indication OF being moved by
what he heard was his trick OF pull
ing sheet after sheet OF paper from
his pocket, nervously tearing them to
bits, and then slowly and carefully
scattering the bits about him on the
floor.
Marshal Schmidt announced to the
defendants that he would give those
whose wives are here an opportunity
10 talk and visit tomorrow, the day
before they are to be sentenced
Frank Dare, OF New Lisbon, Henry
Co.. Indiana. was forman OF the
farmers jury
Under the cumulative penalty sys-
: TEN, which federal judge, In his Is
y cretion, may use, the maximum SEN
tence possible for a defendant found
guilty would be 80 IL years. The
punishment could range down TO
suspended sentence. or a fine.
Although the jury did not mention
MECHANICAL, Clark. nor the McNamaras
In It's verdict, Judge Anderson will
sentence Clark probably on Monday.
McManigal IL TO be sentenced In Cal
ifornia, where he stood confessed as
dynamtter when loaned TO the prosecu-
tom here.
While the reading of the findings
proceeded, Mrs. Frank j. Higgins, OF
Boston, stood at the rail, weeping
! Historically. AT the mention OF her
husbands name, she collapsed and
would have fallen had not friends
drawn her back from the rail. In
contrast 70 Mrs Higgins was Mrs.
John III. Barry, of ST. Louis, who,
when her husband advanced TO face
the Judge, threw her arms around
( him with a smile and said;
Cheer up, John, you can't expect
q heavy punishment" -
II is believed, but not known. that
the court will net some OF the men
on with a fine, some with a minor
sentence and possibly Ryan, Tveit'
moe, Clancy, Munsey and Hockin
with both fines and cumulative
sentences. Such men as Murphy,
Cooney, Mccain, Painter and Ray
are more apt to be dealt leniently
with, on account of the comparatively
small amount OF evidence against
them.
The verdict finding the last quintet
guilty was a big surprise 10 everyone.
1t was expected the jury would not
E0Arict more than 80 OF the men.
Clancy. the convicted Pacific coast
grinning broadly.
In a procession, reaching over two
city squares, marching through the
sands who lined the qIarter-mile OF
the way, the 80 convicted defendants
tramped with measured tread TO the
county jail. They were led by the
local police chief and Marshal
Schmidt, who saluted the county
sheriff, Jacob Woessner, at the stone
entrance to the jail. The men were
manacled, each to deputy marshal.
Many OF the convicted men object
ed to having the nippers placed on
their wrists, but consented when
Ml.aahal Schmidt declared 1t neces.
sary. n Smythe, Of Peoria, and few
others look the entire proceeding as
joke As they marched along
through the crowded streets, win.
dows. balconies and crevices were
filled with eraning necks. Lining the
path OF the procession were grim
faced busineae men, and little boys
Z and old womAn weeping silently
The defendants, faces flushed, eyes
to the front, paid no heed to any one
Shrieking newsboys ran alongside the
defendants and offered to sell then
papers containing accounts OF theil
own convictions. One group of small
boys stood on q corner, turned by the
procession. and threw them taunts Of
rDynamiters," Bomb throwers,' and
the like.
Frank X. Painter, OF Omaha, who
has been cheerful and pleasant
throughout the trial, turned sullen a.
the verdict. Mrs. Painter, who hal
been with her husband every day
since the trial began, wept hysterical
" as she staggered from the cour
room.
Judge Anderson, calm and judicial
amid the scene Of bated breath ant
nerve strain, proceeded with his dis
fnissal OF the jury, apparently I'm
mindful OF the means and cries o
men. women and children, fathers
mothers, wives and babies of the de
PENDANTS who were leaving the cour
room at the marshaps order.
Little Mrs. Hockin. who has sat
dry eyed and calm In her special sea
near her husband In the court room
throughout the trial, listened wide
eyed and tense while the clerk rea,
names, until he came to the nam
''Hockin." Then the little woman
broke down completely, and. buryin
her face In her handkerchief. suffer
ed herself to be led sobbing from tn
court room. Her husband, denounce
BY the government as colossa
doublecrosser, and deserted by hi
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