Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-01-01
80 LABOR CHIEFS
ARE FOUND GUILTY
Of CONSPIRACY
Only Two international Officials
of Iron Workers Remain Out
side of Prison.
CONVICTED MEN ARE JAILED
Each Will BE Sentenced Separately
Maximum Penalty is 80 Years and
Six Months in Prison and Fine
Of fO,0O0-Judge Has Wide
Latitude.

Of S10,0o0-Judge Has Wide
Latitude.
Indianapolis. Ind, Dec 30.-The
United States government, with stern
and decisive swiftness, took into it's
possession SO union labor officials CON
victed Of conspiracy, of promoting ex-
plosions on non-union work through
out the land, of aiding in the destruc-
ton which brought loss of life at Los
Angeles, Cal, and of carrying on
reign of terror" declared to be I'M
paralleled in the history Of the coun-
try.
Two Of the defendants, Daniel Buck
ley of Rock Island, H., and Herman G.
Sieffert of Milwaukee, were found not
guilty.
Each of the SO men convicted will
today be sentenced separately The
maximum penalty is thirty-nine years
and six months in prison and fine Of
$4,000 Under that maximum the
judge can impose sentence according
to his opinion of the personal re-
sponsibility of the men in tho crimes
for which they were tried. Should he
believe any Of the defendants innocent
he can release them.
Those found guilty:
Frank NJ. Ryan, president of the In
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers.
John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice presi-
dent
Herbert S. Hockin, former secre-
tary and formerly of Detroit
Olaf A. Tveitmoe. San francisco,
secretary of the California Building
Trades council.
Eugene a Clancy, San Francisco.
Phillip A. Cooley, New Orleans.
Michael ]. Young, Boston.
Frank j. Higgins, Boston.
J. E. Munsey, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Frank c. Webb, New York.
Patrick F. Farrell, New York
John H. Barry, st. Louis
Paul j. Morrin, ST. Louis.
Henry w Legleitner, Denver.
Charles ~ Beum, Minneapolis.
William e. Reddin, Milwaukee.
Michael J. Cunnan, Philadelphia
Richard Fl. Houlihan, Chicago
James Coopey, Chicago.
James H. Coughlin, Chicago.
William Shupe, Chicago.
Edward Smythe, Peoria, III.
James E. Ray, Peoria, I'll.
Murray l.. Pencil, Springfield, Ill
William o. Bernhard, Cincinnati.
MILFORD Bert Brown, Kansas City
Mo.
William J. Mccain, Kansas City, Mo-
Frank K. Painter, Omaha.
Peter J. Smith, Cleveland.
George Anderson, Cleveland.
Michael J. Harmon, Scranton, Pa.
Edward e. Phillips, Syracuse, N. Y.
Charles Wachmeister, Detroit, Mich
Frank J. Murphy, Detroit
Fred j. Mooney, Duluth.
Ernest G. W. Beasey, Indianapolis.
Fred Sherman, Indianapolis.
Hiram r. Kline, Muncie, Ind. for
mer organizer for the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Two Are Set Free.
Seiffert and Buckley, the only two
men out of the forty labor union Off
Gals to be adjudged not guilty, i'm
mediately were discharged from Gus
tody
After Judge Anderson had cleared
the court room of all spectators and
the families of the defendants. the
thirtv-eight prisoners were taken in
custody by Deputy United States mar
shals and special detectives and were
taken to the Nation county jail.
The conviction of Olaf A. Tvietmoe
and Eugene A. Clancy of San Francis
co and j. Munsey of Salt Lake City.
sustained the governments charges
that they aided in plotting the Los
Angeles explosion, in which twenty
one persons were killed, and assisted
IN the escape of James b. Mcnamara
in his flight from the scene of the
crime
Fifty Counts in Indictment.
The indictment upon which the de-
PENDANTS were convicted contained
some fifty odd counts, and inasmuch
as the brief verdict stated simply that
the IS defendants were Found guilty
as charged in the indictments" the
verdict is taken to mean that every
one of the defendants is liable to a
maximum penalty of SO years in the
penitenriary. The statutes also pro
vide for the imposition Of fines in ad-
dition to the prison term.
The various counts of the indict-
ment covered the different phases of
the illegal transactions which consti-
tuted the conspiracy. including the aid
ing and abetting in the SLIGHTEST de-
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