The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-02

varying from seven years lmprisOp
ment in the federal prison at Leav
enworth, Kan, to one year and one
day, and to suspended sentences
were today imposed upon the IS
labor union officials convicted in the
dynamite conspiracy cases.
Frank NJ. Ryan, president Of the
iron workers international union eva:
given sentence of seven years.
Olaf A. Tveitmoe Of San Francisco
convicted on charges of aiding IN
plotting the destruction of the Los
Angeles Times building and Eugene
A.. Clancy, also of San Francisco
were given six years each.
Ryan, as head of the union, receiv.
ed the heaviest penalty OF seven
years.
Herbert S. Hockin received SIX
years.
All the prisoners who received prs
son terms are to be taken to Leaven-
worth, Kan, probably tonight.
Husbands and Wives
A remarkable scene in the strug.
gle OF the wives Of the prisoners To
reach their husbands attended tra
sentences. 1t was ordered that all
the spectators should be cleared from
the room and the prisoners be al
lowed to talk with members Of thei:
families.
Some Of the men made pleas for
mercy; others wept IN the arms O.
their wives. But the court pronounc-
ed the sentences one by one, regard
less Of the pleas.
Six men were given their liberty
through suspended sentences. These
included Edward Clark, OF Cincinnati
the dynamiter who confessed to blow
ing up bridge with the help OF
Hockin. He had appeared as a wilt
ness for the government.
Ortie Il. idcManigal, another con-
at this time.
In some cases sentences of one
year and one day were imposed, SO
that these men might be confined in
federal prison. Prisoners with
terms of less than one year are kept
in county jaile.
Judge Albert b. Anderson had
many of the prisoners whom he sai0
considered less guilty than the rest
brought before him to make state
ments.
For an hour and a half the Judge
thus in conversational way talked
with prisoners asking them whether
they believed in dynamiting as a me-
thod Of promoting a strike.
All of the men professed innocence
Il hope God will strike me dead"
pleaded one prisoner, but he was in
terrupted by the court.
Arrangements for taking the pris-
oners to Leavenworth on special
train already had been made.
Judge Anderson's Statement
Before Judge Anderson passed en-
tence he said he desired to read a
statement. He then reviewed the his
tory of the dynamiting conspiracy as
well as the evidence introduced and
said:
This scheme or campaign Of dy-
Mantle was entered into and carried
on throughout the country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific,
''The evidence disclosed an appall-
ing list Of crimes in addition to those
charged in the indictments. These
crimes were all committed in the
name of organized labor. | will not
believe that organized labor approves
OF such practices.
ANY organization that approves
and adopts the methods OF these de-
PENDANTS Is an outlaw and will meet
the fate which outlaws have met
since civilized society began.
Evidence Shows Murder
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 1t, nor should 1t be infiu-
enced by such consideration In fix
ing, the measure OF punishment for
the crimes charged.
THE certainty of punishment not
It's severity is the important consid-
GRAFTON in the administration Of GRIM
inal Justice. Such punishment should
be meted out as shall warn men that
even II they desire to accomplish law
full ends, they must not violate the
law in the attempt to realize them.
Keeping these considerations in view
the court must repress that indigna-
ton which every law abiding 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,