The Calumet news., 1912-12-28
.PITIFUL Scene ENACTED WHEN
WIVES or THE CONVICTED MEN
Sob AND CALL OUT FOR Them
Those Adudged Guilty Will Face Sentence Monday Ali Counts in
the Indictments Nine and Onetalf Years Is Maxi
mum in Each Case Although Degree OF Crime Of
Each Defendant Will Be Considered in
pr0n0uncing Judgment

Indianapolis. Ind, Dec. 2s-Thirty-
eight labor union officials today were
found guilty of completely in the Nc
Namara dynamite plots including the
wrecking Of the Los Angeles Times.
President Ryan Of the international
Association of Iron Workers is among
those convicted, He, with others. was
accused of using unions funds to de-
stroy property OF contractors who re-
fused to recognize the union.
Two defendants, Buckley ana Self
fert, were found not guilty
The verdicts were Brought in at 10
o'clock All Of those adjudged guilty
we're found guilty on all the counts
charged in the indictments.
The jury was discharged and court
adiourned until 10 o'clock, Monday,
at which time sentence viii be impos-
ed Seitfert and Buckley were dis
charged from custody.
After Judge Anderson cleared the
court room of all spectators and the
families of the defendants, the thirty
eight prisoners We're taken in custody
by deputy United States marshals and
special detectives and taken to the
Marion county Jail.
Herman Seiffert is from Milwaukee
and Daniel Buckley from Davenport.
The conviction of Olaf Tvietmoe and
Eugene Clancy of san Francisco, and
J f.. Munsey of salt Lake sustained
the governments charges they aided
in plotting the Los Angeles explosion,
In which 2l persons We're killed. and
assisted in the escape Of James B.
Mcnamara from the scene.
Prominent Leaders Convicted.
BY its verdict the jury also sustain
ed the charges that n, Mcnamara
brothers. now in prison in California,
were aided i'm the nation wide dyna-
mite plots by almost all the executive
officials OF the Iron Workers union.
and that they knowingly carried on
the conspiracy for years by causing
explosives TO be transported on pas
senger trains
At the head of a union of 10000
members President Ryan was one OF
those who sat in the council of the
American Federation Of Labor
Tvietmoe was charged not only with
supplying two men 10 assist in blow
ing up the Los Angeles Times, but
also in having asked FOR more eXplo-
sions on the Pacific coast lie was
secretary of the California Building
Trades council, an editor and recogni-
zed leader in labor circles on the coast
Also at the head of those found
guilty is Herbert Hockin. called The
Iago Of the conspirators," because ho
was charged with first Initiating Nc
Manigal as hired dynamiter and
then with betraying all the dynamiters
to promote his own ambitions II
was he who, once secretary Of the
| international union, whispered into
the ear Of Detective Burns the names
Of the Los Angeles Times dynamiters
Vice President Butler of the Iron
/ Workers, also convicted was branded
! by the court as 'perJurer, after he
/ had denied that Mcnamara was draw
/ ing a thousand a month TO pay for
| dynamitings.
Ptful Scene in Court,
An almost tragic scene took place
| IN the court room I'm a few minutes
following the end of the trial AS
| Marshal Schmidt ordered the prisoners
one by one TO step before the court
wives of score of men. at the rear
of the room. leaned pitifully over the
ratings, calling for their husbands
Mrs. Frank J. Higgins, of Boston
leaned far over the railing and col
lapsed, crying historically. A different
disposition was shawn by Mrs. John
| Barry, of st. Louis With a smile
she threw her arms around her hus'
band, begging him 10 have courage
BE of god cheer John she said