Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-31
Sentences of Convicted Labor
Leaders Range from Ore
Year to Seven Years at
Hard Labor.
FIVE. MEN SECURE
JUDGES CLEMENCY
Special Train, Leaving at lime
and Over Route Not Dis
closed, Is to Garry ConvIctS.
to Penitentiary'

nv vorninx journal Special T.ensed Wire''
Indianapolis Dec. 30.--lmpcisoh-
meot i'm the federal prison at LeaNeh-
iucrth. kan. today, was irii oseu ~
pnnishmcnt upon thi'iN-thi"r ah"r
,niou officials con,ic'n1 ~ cpnsihra
TORS and aidars in the Mcnamara plots
if,r The destruction II property ui 'neh
sn.r contractors by dynamite over an
i9t,a stretching trom Iioston IL Los
! Angeles. AS the heads OF the un.cn,
whose strike was given as the motive
for promoting the dynamite plo's,
Frank NJ. Ryan was sent"ncet 70
seven years Imprisonment. the hea' +
est sentence OF all. He Is presidens
OF the IRON workers international
union. OF the thirty-eight men con-
victcd as conspirators and uiiess IN
the Mcnamara dynamiting schemes,
eight other men. all affiliated with
RYAN. each was given prison ter'n
of six years. Two men, eaeh, Mere
given four years; twelve men, each,
were given three years; four men were
given two Years each, six men one
year and one day each. and tive men,
including Edward Clark, Cincinnati
a dynamiter who pleaded guilty were
allowed their liberty on suspended
sentences. The elimination Of those
who received suspended sentences LETT
thirty three who are to go to LeaVen-
worth where the shortest sentence
: will be one year and one day.
- BY the liberation Of Hiram II. Kline,
La former official OF the Carpenters
! union, and Diaf a. Tytitmoos san Frah'
cisco remained as the only labor
: union official among the prisoners
not related with the iron workers
! union Tveitmoe was charged by the
government with having connived
: with Ryan and Mcnamara for the
destruction OF life and property on
the Pacific coast. 1Neitmoe again
ana again was referred TO by the gov
crnment to the jury "as a murderer
who ought to be into San Quentin
prison along with the McNamaras.
From the bench. Federal Judge An
: derson read in connection with sen
" fencing the men, statement In which
he snid
! sThe evidence shows some OF these
defendants to be guilty of murder
The court continued The evidence
tial person that government by injunc'
, ton is indefinitely 10 be preferred t'
government by dynamite
The sentence of Herbert $. Hockn
; termed the "Iago" of the conspiracy
and the sentence of Tveitmoe, was re
received by each without an expires
sion. Eugene A. Clancy, san Fran
CISCO and j. T.. Mnnsey, salt LAX
City, both Of whom were charged VIII
assisting in the escape of James B. Ne
Namara from Los Angeles, also re
ccivcd their sentences in silence. Whel
the court issued a general Invitation
to any of the men TO state what fesl
sons they had, why sentences shoul'
not be pronounced. Ryan, too, remain
ed silent
steps toward appeals in behalf o
all the prisoners To the Initeu state
t court OF appeals already have bee
taken Chester III. Krum. with othe
counsel appeared before Judge An
derson late today to arrange for IN
/, filing of the writs Of errors. I'M
i i formalitv may be done tomorrow
~, Meantime, Mr.. krum said there wa
n no prospect OF procuring liberty fo
~ any OF the men through supsedea
- bonds. All the prisoners are to go I
es LeaNenwofth. Nhat liine the sp'ei'
"a train il to carry them there Unite
ID states Marshal schmidt refused I
10 state. as he has been instructed I
- keep in absolute secrecy the departur
rs and route of the train. 1t was under
stood that no efforts were to be mad
~ to take the train before tomorrow
- Less than twenty minutes was con
.'s sumed in the work of actually impos
IN ing sentences. although for an hou
of and a half before that time, Judge Al
s- derson leaning over his desk. invite
each prisoner To step up and talk wit
Of him as to his degree of quit.
a. The prisoners had been arraigne
~ three rows deep. In front sat
ia dozen attorneys for the defense, who's
oy motions for setting aside the Nerdic'
~ and for arrests of Judgment wer
mt over-ruled.
N Behind. in the rear shut off by.
"a railing, were relatives of the prisoner
es There were. perhaps. several hundre
uh people in the room. but one voice on
in was heard at time That was III
~. Judges voice or the voice of the prs
Nv oner who had stepped forward
d. plead for mercy.
lis Judge Anderson said his reason f.
no wanting to talk To some of the me
r. was because he believed some eviden'
a might have been brought out In u
tn trial which was omitted.
"a ..ff there is any one of you who NJ
of ANYTHING To say why sentence shonl
mot be pronounced he may step fo