The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-12-31
GUILTY As CHARGED
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(By Federal Wireless TelegraphD
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, December
2s.-(Speci4l to The Advertiser)-Olaf
Tveitmoe and L. A. Clancy, of San
Francisco, and thirty.six other defend.
ants in the dynamite conspiracy trial,
were found guilty today on every count
in the indictments charging them with
illegally transporting dynamite.
Only two of the defendants, Daniel
Rusklev of Davenport, Iowa, and Her.
man G. Seiffert, of Milwaukee, were ac-
quilted.
The men were found guilty on fifty
two counts of conspiracy, in addition
to the charge of unlawfully transport.
ing dynamite.
The Jury was out forty hours and
twenty-five minutes. The jury brought
in general verdict.
When the verdict was announced the
defendants sat with their faces grim
and set.
There was happy light in Buckley's
and Seiffert's faces.
Wachtmeister broke down, crying
like baby.
Judge Anderson dismissed the jury,
after thanking them profusely for their
then adjourned until ten O'Clock Mon
day morning.
Clancy and Tveitmoe Stolid.
Clancy and Tveitmoe heard the YER
diet stolidly. Tveitmoe's only indlca-
ton of nervousness was n trick OF TAX
ing some sheets of paper from his
pocket, tearing them to bits slowly and
then carefully scattering the bits about
the floor.
Defendant Frank X. Painter, of
Omaha, sat chattering with his wife
when the jury came in. Mrs. Painter
tainted when the verdict was an
nounced and was carried from the
courtroom.
When the jury entered, the defend
ants were assembled in double line,
surrounded by FIVE hundred deputies.
1t required only a moment to read the
verdict.
Attorney Harding for the defense,
attempted to address the court, but was
informed that there was nothing to be
said at this time.
After the courtroom had been cleared
of the spectators, the thirty-eight de-
PENDANTS were called forward singly
and hurried to the Marion county Jail,
each in the custody of a deputy mar
shal.
1t is believed the convicted men will
be given an opportunity to appeal from
the verdict when court reconvenes Mon
day.
The defense attorneys were not al
lowed to voice an appeal today.
The jurors lost no time in leaving
the courtroom after returning their
verdict. Seiffert and Buckley wanted
to thank the Jurors, but they left be-
fore they had an opportunity.
Mysteries and Laughter.
The wives and relatives of the pris-
oners stood about the men, some weep
ing continually until they shrieked
Historically.
Five minutes after the verdict was
ont. defendants ]. II. Butler, of Indian
apolis; Edward Smythe, of Springfield,
and Peter ]. Smith, of Cleveland, were
eonvnlsed with laughter over joke one
of their members had just told.
In procession reaching over two
blocks long marching through the
streets, through lane made in crowd
of thousands, the thirty yeight convicted
men tramped TO the county Jail, led by
United States Marshall Schmeidt and
the chief Of police OF indianapolis, Each
of the defendants wa manacled TO a
deputy
Some Of the men, including Tyeitmo,
aud Clancy, objected TO being manaeled
but some OF the Others took the man
aciiug as a joke.
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their faces flushed aud eyes 10 the front
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