The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-28

Indianapolis. Dec. 2s.-Amid silence broken only by the monotonous voice of the court clerk, 3S of the 40 union labor men on trial here since October 1, heard themselves declared guilty of conspiracy to transport explosives
 Daniel Buckley. of Davenport. Ia.. and Herman Seiffert, of Milwaukee, were the only men freed.
 The verdict tore jagged hole in the organization of the International Ironworkers Union because it put their principal officers, including President Frank M Ryan. in jail:
 president, Philip Cooley, of New Or leans, and Michael Young, of Boston, members of the executive board were among the other officers imprisoned.
 Court adjourned until Monday morning, when it was believed the men will be given an opportunity to appeal which was refused them, to- day
 Judge Albert Anderson refused to poll the jury for the defense. declar- ing he had done it privately and that it would take too long to do it again.
 Eugene Clancy and Olaf Tveitm the Pacific coast defendants, accept ed their conviction stolid1y. Tvett- moe's only indication of being moved by what he heard was his trick of pulling sheet after sheet of paper and then slowly and carefully scat tering the bits about him on the floor.
 Marshal Schmidt announced to the defendants that he would give those whose wives are here an opportunity to talk and visit them the day before they are to be sentenced.
 Frank Dare, of New Lisbon, Ind, was foreman of the jury.
 Under the accumulative penalty system which a Federal judge, in his discretion. may use, the maximum found guilty would be 39 F years. The punishment could range down to suspended sentence or fine.
 Although the jury did not mention McManigaI, Clark, or the McNamaras in their verdict, Judge Anderson will sentence Ed Clark and Ortie E. Me Maniga1 probably Monday.
 In a procession reaching over two city squares, marching through the roadway made in the crowd of thous- ands who lined the quarter mile of with measured tread to the county jail. They were led by the local po- lice chief and Marshal Schmidt who saluted the county sheriff, Jacob Wooesner at the stone entrance to the jail. The men were manacled, each to a deputy marshal.
 Many of the convicted men objected to having the nippers placed upon their wrists but consented when Mar shal Schmidt declared it necessary 1 Smith. of Peoria and few others took the entire proceedings as a joke. | As they marched along through the | crowded streets, windows, balconies l and crevices were filled with craning | necks. Lining the path of the pro- l cesSion were grim faced busin essrn en | and little boys and old women weep ing silently.
 The defendants, faces flushed, eyes to the front, paid no heed to any one. l Shrieking newsboys ran alongside the | defendants and offered to sell them | papers containing accounts of their 1 own convictions. One group of small | boys stood on @ corner turned by the | and threw them taunts of 1 fdynamiters," "bom bthrowers'' and the | like. the court will let some of the men off | with fine, some with minor sen tence. Ryan, Tveftmoe, Clancy. Nun | sey and Hockin, it is said, will likely | receive fines and communicative sen | tences. Such men as Murphy Cooney Painter and Ray are more ami l to be dealt lenient1y with on account | of the comparatively small amount of | evidence against them.
 The finding of the last named puin- l tet guilty was a big surprise to every 1 one here. It was expected that the | jury would not convict more than 25 |
 Clancy. the convicted Pacific coast | labor leader, went. to jail chewing 1 gum and grinning broadly.
 The 3S defendants were found guilty | fully transporting dynamite in the verdict brought in at $50 o'clock this 
 The jury brought in a general yer iict. The defendants sat with faces grim and set. A light of happiness showed on Buckley's and Seiffert's faces as the announcement was made of Detroit, cried like a baby at the verdict.
 Judge Anderson dismissed the jury after thanking them profusely for their good and faithful work
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