The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-15

thornc No. | indictment and on all tho
| other counts not mentioned
| This sentence will begin on .Ianuar,
| !. 1913 in view Of the prcsumptiuns al
| of this trial
| In the case of the defendants Mortor
and Hawthorne | wish. on account o,
their age, that | could suspend all tho
| indictments. | WILL however. spntenc,
them each to a year at Atlanta, tn,
sentence to date from November 25
| l9l2' Ton which day the trial began
| After comforting with MIR. procto,
Judg" Mayer announced that he woult
change his sentences of a year wherevc,
pronounced upon the defendant Free.
! man and as pronounced upon the de.
PENDANTS Morton and Hawthorne to q
year and "A day. This was To make tn,
convicted men eligible for parole
Trial Cost si2O.OOO.
| The affairs of the mine promoter,
were first subjected to Federal scru.
tiny in 1905. soon after the publication,
lin TIE SrN of articles regarding thcir
mining literature. Assistant United
States Attorney Dorr, who has beer
chief prosecutor in the trial just fin.
|
torney Thompson, together with severa
| United States Post office inspectors
went To Canada and made "A thoroug,
/ investigation Of the mining properties
of which Mr.. Hawthorne wrote SO glow.
ingly in the circulars which he sent out
at the rate OF 10000 "A day to his Har-
ward classmates, friends in New Eng
land and others.
"A, g.
| that they obtained $500. 900 from tn,
| public. If which sl76.o00 went int,
| development work. The sum oi
$4,000 is unaccounted for and thi.
the Government says was divided
| among the defendants.
The trial has cost the Government
about 500 and the defendants abou
! $50. 900. 1t ~ the longest trial in tn,
history of the Federal Building. Will
| the exception Of the Scheftels case. IL
which George Graham Rice was IA de
| fcndant and which lasted for eighty
one days. The Government had callc,
| l02 witnesses and the defence six. Tn,
testimony fills 5000 pages.
nawthorne'. Career.
Julian Hawthorne is 6S years old
| He attended the Lawrence Scientfi,
| School at Harvard and studied minirl
| in Dresden with the purpose of hecom
/ ing ii mining engineer. He turned to
| Journalism, however, represented New
York newspapers in Washington, cuba
and elsewhere and was special CORE.
| spund"nt of TIA" G0smo opoittGH in India
He has published about twenty riv,
novels, among them Garth" For.
tunes Fool" Love is a Spirit ant
constance" lie has also written Ma
thaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, anc
"Hawthorne and His Circle" and his.
! tory Of the United States.
The story is told Of Mr.. Hawthorne
that he went to call upon James Russell
Lowell after the latter had returned
from serving as United States Ambas-
sador at the Court of ST. Jamess s
Young Mr.. Hawthorne being the son OF
his friend and contemporary Mr.. Lowell
talked with him frankly of his impress
sions about Englishmen, their life and
customs.
Not long afterward an article writer
by Mr., Hawthorne appeared i'm which
the entcrprising young journalist had
faithfully set down all the intimat,
views which Mr.. Lowell had expressed
50 frankly. Thcreupon exclaimed the
cX-Ambassador:
The old saying, % Lord, deliver US
from our friends must now be extended
to include their sons"
Mr.. Hawthorne is a brother OF Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop, wife of George
Parsons Lathrop, the author, who re-
Gently as mother Mary Alphonsa La
thrup, supcriorcSs Of tn" Dominican
Community of the Third Order. has
devoted her life to the care of tubcr'
cular women without money. Mr.. Haw-
thorne's daughter is HildeCarde liaw'
thOrnC, an author
Albert Freeman, with whom Mr.
Hawthorne became associated in 1905
in the promotion Of the Canadian prop
critics, was formerly member of the
! firm of Albert Freeman & CO., brokers
, Tn" firm failed in 1903.
Dr. William j. Morton, Mr. Iiaw-
thorne's Classmate at Harvard, who
testified that he first suggested that The
author engage in mining In Canada
is the son of the man who first USED
| ether as an anFsthetic. lie is 6s years
old lie studied medicine in Germany
and France and finally settled in New
York, where so he testified during the
| trial he built mp practice which
ncttcd him as much ns $50, 900 a year
| lie specialized in N-rny treatment anC
| has lccturcd in different hospitals ant
medical schools.