Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-31

Verd1Ct!"
The answer came from each juror:
1T is"
/ Fate Read Separately.
Then began the further reading OF
the brief message which pronounced
one by one the fate of the other de-
PENDANTS.
The men were not charged actually
with causing explosions The only
charges under which they could be
prosecuted by the federal government
were conspiracy and illegal transpor-
tatlon of explosives. But the court
ruled that evidence as to violence was
competent as showing a motive
II am not ready to believe that or
ganized labor yet stands for the things
that have been shown here" was one
OF Judge Anderson's statements to the
jury. ...
This is not trial of labor unions
but OF union officials accused of wrong
doing"
About thirty wives with almost as
many children are separated from
their husbands by the verdicts. While
the scene, was being enacted in the
court room, the four-year-old son of
William G. Bernhardt, Cincinnati one
of the defendants, was playing in the
lobby with a red painted toy engine
which was given him Christmas.
Almost the entire staff of executive
officials of the iron workers union was
convicted. The only officials not on
trial were J. E. Clery, Cleveland, now
secretary, and Ed Lewis, San Fran
cisco, a member of the executive
board.
In the report of the jury as handed
in by Foreman Dare, the names of
Charles Wachtmeister and Frank j..
Murphy of Detroit, and Hiram R. Kline
of Muncie, Ind, were written in the
margin of the sheet of paper and the
court requested an explanation. Fore
man Dare said the names were writ
ten in the margin merely because
there was not enough room at the bot
tom of the sheet and that they were
included in the list of guilty.
Judge Commends Jury.
IF ever any of you jurors are drawn
for jury duty again in this court, all
you will have to do will be to tell me
that you served in this trial and you
will be excused said Judge Ander-
son in discharging the jury.
Il want to express publicly the
thanks due you from the community
for your faithfulness to duty. You
have been cut off here for three
months from your families and your
friends and not one word of complaint
has been heard from any of YOU
When the jury had left the room
Judge Anderson ordered court ad-
journed until 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing.
Daniel Buckley of Davenport, Iowa,
did not hesitate when the Judge an
nounced his discharge He passed In
front Of the others and his face show
ed he did not know whether to laugh
or cry. Herman Seiffert of Milwaukee,
waited until his name was called by
Marshall Schmidt.
To Pass Judgment Monday.
All those adjudged guilty were found
guilty on all the counts as charged in
the indictments.
The jury was discharged and court
adjourney until 10 a. m. Monday, at
which time sentences will be imposed.
After Judge Anderson had cleared
the court room of all spectators and
the families of the defendants, the
thirty eight prisoners were taken into
custody by deputy United States
marshals and special detectives and
We're taken to the Marion county Jail.
Seiffert and Buckley, the only two
men out of the forty labor union Off
Gals to be adjudged not guilty, imme-
diately were discharged from custody.
Since the trial began on October 1,
which was the second anniversary of
the killing of the twenty-one persons
in the Los Angeles Times explosion,
all attendants at the trial have been
in court six hours day with the ex-
ception of only a day and half when
one Of the jurors was sick. There
have been no adjournments on account