Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-04
Are Entitled
 10 be BaiIed
WRIT OF suPERsEDEAs GRANT
 ED DYNAMITERs.
s1, 100000 IS REQUIRED
Must Furnish Bonds of sto,ooo for Every Year of Their sentenee-Im- prisoned Too Hastily, Says Court.

prisoned Too Hastily. Says Court. $1, 100000 secured by property wortl not less than twic that amount, must be given if the g labor leaders con< victed of conspiracy to transport dy- writ of supersedeas granted today bI the United States court of appeah here. Few May Be Liberated. Whether this sum can be obtain. ed was admitted by counsel for tht defendants to be a matter of grave doubt but they expressed the beliet that at least some of 1t could b( secured-enough to accomplish the liberty of President Frank M. Ryan and a few others until decision hal been reached on an appeal for thu filing of which the court allowed sixty days.
 Imprisoned Too Hastily.
 Of the ss men now in the Leaven- worth penitentiary Herbert s. Hook in, designated among his fellow pris- oners as the 'informer,'' will not ap- peal.
 Judges Baker and Seaman heard the arguments and the decision was gIv- en by Judge Baker. He took occa- sion to intimate that undue haSta was manifested at Indianapolis in committing the defendants to prison.
 offenses Not E,traditabIe.
 The writ was issued largely on thS iron workers were convicted of a con- tinuing offense-a conspiracy to com init offenses continuously.
 In the fixing of the amount of tha fact that the offenses are not ex- traditable, Judge Anderson, who pre- sided over the trial court at Indian apolis, was called to pass on tha offered. District Attorney Miller of Indianapolis, who represented the gov ernnrent at today's precedingS, stated that the bonds of surety companies that the surety must schedrde in property twice the amount of the bond
 $1o,ooo For Each Year of Sentence.
 A basis of s10.eoo. for each years sentence {W7s used by the court fn Ryan was sentenced to serve seven years, his bond was fixed at $T0,o00 and the same ratio was preserved throughout for the other convicted men.
 Judge Baker said in commenting on the errors alleged by the defense against the trial court:
 Writ of Error an Absolute Right.
 tIn this case the writ of error is an absolute right; writ of eupersedeas is not an absolute right. II has been the practice Of federal criminal prose cutions, however, to allow wr1ts of supersedeas so as to release prisoners on bail until the case is finally de cided on review. While the judgment of the trial court presumably is cor rect, yet there is 8. possibility of sub stantian error so great that a conviction should not be sustained For that reason defendants should not be subjected to the ignominy of in generation while their cases are re- viewed and writs of supersedeas should issue when it is shown that they are asked for in good faith and not on frivolous grounds or merely to delay the progress of justice.
 No Decision Covers Eofnt.
 .srhe chief error assigned in this casS is that the defendants we're tried on the theory of continuing conspiracy. AS far as we have been able to learn there is no decision which definitely be determined by reasoning and ana1o- BY to precedent. The question as to whether the defendant should have been tried for conspiracy in connect definitely adjudicated and there are possible grounds for difference of opinion. In such circumstances it iS the ordinary and customary practice to d0llll tue Oe1eAQdAAS ID 0sAA
 4. F. of L. Can't Help.
 Washington. Jan. 3.-SampeI Com pers, president of the American Fed eration of Labor, when asked this af- ternoon whether the federation would furnish bail for the release of the men convicted of conspiracy in the dyna- mite eases. said: Neither our men nor the federation has any means
 Bail for Clancy and Tvei&moe.
 San Francisco. Jan. 3.-'FWe will bah and Tveitmoe out if it costs a million dollars said former Mayor P. H. Mccarthy. president of the build ing trades council of California to- day when informed that writs of su- persedeas had been granted
 Is money available?' ?' Mccarthy was asked.
 Tt will be immediately. We caa raise a million or more" was the re- ply.