The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-15
CONVICTED AT END
OF LENGTHY TRIAL
Son of Famous Novelist Is Sen
fenced to One Year in At
lanta Penitentiary.
TWO OTHERS FOUND GUILTY
Charge Against Them Is Using
Mails i'll Swindling
Scheme.
TWO OTHERS FOUND GUILTY

New York, March 1f-Thc Haw-
thornc mining trial, which has dragged
along nearly four months before IA jury
In the Federal court here. cnme to a
close to-day with conviction OF three
lefcndants-.yuiian hawthorne, DIR.
William j. Morton and Albert Free
mnn-nnd the ncauittnl of Josiah
Quincy. twice Mayor of Boston md
Assistant Secretary of State during
the Cleveland ndmi nlstration.
Hawthorne, Morton and Freeman
were found guilty of making fraudu-
lent use of the mails in selling stock
in tine exploitation of Canadian ore
claims. Quincy. exonerated by United
States Judge Mayer on all counts oil
five indictments before the case reach
ed the jury, was held not guilty OH
the one remaining indictment OF con-
spiracy in allowing his name to be
used in promoting the scheme. The
jury was out twenty y-seven minutes.
Judge Pronounccs Sentence.
Judge Mayer pronounced sentence
found guilty and paroled Quincy un-
I'll next October when he Is directed
to appear in answer TO two indictments
still pending against him.
Freeman. n New York business man
for twenty-siX years, was sentenced
to FIVE years in tho Federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta
Hawthorne, son OF Nathaniel Haw-
thorne. the novelist. and himself an
author, and DR.. William j. Morton.
son of DR.. w. T. G. Morton, the first
user OF ether in surgical operations,
were each sentenced 10 one year ana
one day at Atlanta. Frceman's prison
term is to date from the first of the
present year. and the terms OF Haw-
thorne and Morton from November %,
the day the trial was begun.
OF the twcnty-sevcn counts against
the three men found guilty. Freeman
was acquitted OF four and Hawthorne
and Morton OF seven each Judge
Mayer grantsd a ten-day stay to al
low an appeal. Counsel for Huw
thorne pleaded for suspension of SEN
tence for tho author.
Fault OF Judgment rather than bad
intent was advanced in Hawthorne's
behalf. Will ask. Your Honor. to
consider that the defendant is getting
on In years" said counsel. "He Is
penniless 1t is true. too. that the
long ordeal which the trial has been
to him and the realization that the
name he had labored so long and so
hard TO keep clean is sullled, are sum
cient punishment"
Joseph n Choate. Jr asking for
IL,
said the physician ''is now engaged In
doing exceedingly valuable work to
the community---work that would bene-
tit thousands" ~ plea for Freeman as
a man of hitherto unblemished reputa-
ton was made.
Judge Mayer. in denying these re-
quests and passing sentence declared
that the defendants had the fairest
trial possible. They were charged by
the government with having obtained
about 100000 from the public in their
exploitation of the so-called Hawthorne
properties. ~
Takes Sentence to Heart.
OF the three found guilty, DIR. Morton
appeared to take his sentence most to
heart. The conviction was not a sur
prise to him. he snid. He declared he
was not guilty, but had expected to be,
adjudged so for the reason that the
American people treated his father un-
3ustly and he himself had always looked
forward to some calamity to befall
him. His father Invented ether. DR.
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