Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-01-02
SIX MEN ARE LIBERATED
ON SUSPENDED SENTENCES
Judge Says evidence Will Convince Any I'M
partial Person Government by Injunction is
Infinitely to Be Preferred to Govern
ment by Dynamite.

! he had proceeded far, the child In the
| corridor began to cry and the judge
| paused long enough to order that the
| door be kept closed. 1t was four-year-
! old George Bernhard, son OF the Gin
! cnnat prisoner who had been playing |
in the corridor with Christmas toys. In
consequence of his crying about one-third
! Of the prisoners had been sentenced be-
, fore the doors were opened to allow peo- !
! PIE to go out. |
| The court room was more crowded than |
usual. Among many women present was
| Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, widow Of the |
! former president.
The sentences were read by the court
| from a slip OF paper, the names and
the terms of imprisonment being called
off rapidly. A few minutes later the
! court room was cleared of all except
the prisoners who with their families
were permitted to remain in the federal
building until late in the afternoon.
At 315 o'clock the prisoners shackled
to deputy marshals with Marshal !
Schmidt and Superintendent of Police
Martin J. Hyland in the lead. stepped
out OF the federal building and on their
march to the Marion county jail began
to sing ION the Banks of the shannon.
The singing continued with crying women
and children following the procession al
most until the jail was reached. Every
effort of the deputies to stop the demon
stration caused louder singing.
ANDERSON LEADS PROCESSION.
As the line reached the prisoners en-
trance to the Jail. the deputies stepped
aside the handouts We're removed ana
the prisoners were checked by Marshal
schmidt The prisoners marched IN
| alphabetical order, Anderson Of Cleveland
t leading and Young of Boston bringing UP
the rear.
Not one of the six men whose SEN
fences were suspended by Judge An
derson accompanied the melancholy
procession from the scene of the trial
to the jail. The wives and friends OF
the convicted men hal taken leave OF
them half hour before Marshal
Schmidt ordered the prisoners to get
ready for the trip to the jail.
, At the entrance of the Jail yard Ave
policemen held back the crowd. The
o deputies and prisoners marched
through the yard to the entrance.
while hundreds of spectators craned
A their necks and iostled each other to
!, see how the prisoners bore up under
the strain. AS Anderson of Cleve-
, land, the first man in the line, passed
;, a moving picture photographer, AZ
q smiled and said to his guard: Hes
. on the job" Some of the men pulled
a nervously on cigars, others were still
chewing toothpicks they used after
i luncheon in the federal building
- Nine minutes after Anderson, the
&c first man. left the federal building, the
=. entire procession had reached the en-
trance of the Jail A few minutes
II later the handouts had been removed
Il from the last prisoner, and the jail
!, door had FLASHED shut behind them.
=. The prisoners had been separated from
n their relatives at the federal building. Tn,
70 wife and two daughters OF Edward f
"a Phillips OF Syracuse, n. Y. were thu
first TO leave the room. They were cryin,
40 as the door closed
~ CHEEKY WORD FOR YOUNGSTER.
Is George Bernhard, the four-year-olc
son of the prisoner, brought a smile t.
~ the faces of many when he left tn
al corridor with a nervy "good-bye' tina
ep elected a CHEEKY response from the mos
he downcast of the prisoners. The boy wol
in the friendship OF the defendants and thei
families by the cheerful front he main
tained throughout the trial When hi
father was sentenced the boy was play
by ing In one of the corridors and maxim
n it resound with childish shouts Of glee,
nd The prisoners at the request Of Ec
on Smythe of Peoria, H.. sang 20 Wher
Tx Is My Wandering Boy Tonight" shortl
after the room where they were confne
ers had been cleared OF relatives. A fe'
In minutes before the defendants left I'll
le- room the song was repeated
ide Hiram Kline, who was released on SUI
hts pended sentence, mingled with the friend
ar, and families Of the convicted men in tn
yes corridors, He was crying as he bid h
ev- former associates farewell.
me The convicted men left final dispostio
nat of their effects and arranged their bus
ness affairs with their relatives an
to friends.
Murphy OF Detroit one of the defer
for dants who was released under suspende
vas sentence, said Not because he let me 6
Sht without punishment, but because thin
len 1t Is due 20 him I want to say that
fairer Judge never lived than Judge Al
mas dcrson am absolutely innocent. What
not say about Judge Anderson I say In vie
pea this trial, I wish all Of the judges In tn
ere country from the Judges of the Supren
mes Court, from the federal judges and sta
'"N Judges on down to the judges of the lo'
est court We're Ike Judge Anderson
~ CLARK'S RELEASE SIGNIFICANT.
: 81 Clark suspension of punishment aft
he had pleaded guilty throws an int
sit esting lGht on Ortie f. McManigal a
arm other confessed dynamlter
and Several days after the trial began NJ
after the district attorney had produc
~" before the jury an ivory handled vi
led. brella upon which was inscribed the II
our tails "E. c." Clark pleaded guilty.
any said he had left the umbrella where
blew up bridge at Dayton, ONO
de- declared Hockin had furnished him I
ass dynamite and President Ryan had poll
ICED ed out jobs In Cincinnati to be blown l
fore McManigal already had pleaded gun