Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-30

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'The evidence shows some of these
defendants to be guilty of murder, but
they are not charged here with that
crime; this court cannot punish them
for it, nor should it be influenced by
such consideration in fixing the meas
ure of punishment for the crimes
charged
"The certainty of punishment, not
it's severity, is the important con-
sideration in the administration OF
criminal justice. Such punishment
should be meted out as shall warn
others that even if they desire to
accomplish sinful ends, they must not
violate the law in the attempt to real
ize them. Keeping these considera-
tions in view, the court must repress
that Indignation which every law-abid
ing citizen naturally feels at the
crimes which the evidence in this
case discloses in addition to those for
which the defendants have been found
guilty, and as near as may be pos
sible, contine the punishment within
it's proper scope"
Referring to the iron workers strike
which began in 1905 and which the
government charged was the motive
which prompted John ]. Mcnamara
to use dynamite as a weapon, Judge
Anderson said the strike was attend
ed by picketing then by sluggings and
riots. He added:
But in 1906 a campaign by dyna
mite was inaugurated and beginning
with explosions in the east and eX-
tending from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, continued until the arrest of the
McNamaras and McManigal in April.
1911. The evidence in this case shows
that almost one hundred explosions,
damaging and destroying structures in
process of erection by and with the
machinery of open shop concerns
took place, eliminating on the first
day of October, 1910, in the destruc-
ton of the Los Angeles Times build
ing, and the murder of 21 people.
Everyone of those explosions was
upon the open shop concerns, and no
explosion is shown to have taken place
upon any closed shop job. Since the
arrest of the McNamaras and McMani-
gal, these explosions have ceased.
TO CREATE "REGiN OF TERROR"
This system of destruction was not
carried on for revenge or obedience
to any other human passion, but for
the deliberate purpose, by veritable
reign of terror to enforce compliance
with the demands of the iron workers
upon the open and closed shop ques-
ton" ~.
Tveitmoe and Clancy, of San Fran
cisco, and Munsey, of Salt Lake, we're
repeatedly charged by the district at
torney during the trail with having
committed graver crimes than those
upon which they were being tried.
"GUllTY OF MURDER?"
"Tveitmoe, the man who paid the
dynamiters for the work on the Pa
cific coast, who asked for more ex-
plosions even after the 81 persons
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for dynamiting. He ought to be out
there on the coast on trial for mur-
der" was one of Distirt Attorney Mil
-lers statements in the court record.
so ought Clancy, and so ought
Munsey, the man who for two weeks
harbored J. B. Mcnamara in Salt
Lake City. These men ought to be in
San Quentin prison in California along
with the McNamaras right now"
At the federal building where the
prisoners were permitted to eat out
of lunch baskets with their wives, it
was said, by United States Marshall
Schmidt that the men would be taken
back to the county jai, temporarily to
be put in readiness for their transpor-
tation to Leavenworth
The route to the train and the time
of its departure from indianapolis are
to be kept secret
Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 30.-Terms
of Imprisonment were imposed as fol.
lows
Frank NJ. Ryan. president of the
Ironworkers' union, seven years.
John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice presi-
dent, six years.
Herbert S. Hockin, former secre.
tary and formerly of Detroit six
years.
Olaf A. Tveitmoe. San Francisco
secretary of the California Building
Trades council. six years
Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco,
six years.
Philip A. Cooley, New Orleans, six
years.
Michael J. Young, Boston, six years.
Charles N. Beum, Minneapolis. three
years.
Michael E. Cunnane, Philadelphia,
three years
Richard H. Houlihan, Chicago, two
years.
William Shupe, Chicago, one year
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