The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-01-09
$l,100,000 WOULD
FREE LABOR men
UNION LEADERS MUST FURNISH
THIS AMOUNT TO GET WRIT
OF sUPERsEDEAs.
is BASED ON SENTENCE.
$4,000 in Bonds. Must Be Put Up for
Each Years Sentence.-Over
100000 Said to Have
Been Pledged.

Chicago, Jan. 6.-Bonds aggregating
$1,000 must be given if the 80 of
the 33 labor leaders convicted of con-
spiracy to transport dynamite are to
take advantage of the granting of a
writ of supersedeas by the United
State circuit court of appeals in this
city Friday. The decision involves
only 30 of the 33 men now in the
Leavenworth p%enitentiary, as Herbert
5. Hockin, designated among his fell.
low prisoners as the "informer," will
not appeal.
!ntimates Undue Haste.
Judges Baker and Seaman heard the
arguments and the decision was given
orally by Judge Baker. He took &C.
casion to intimate that undue haste
was manifested at Indianapolis in CON-
hitting the defendants to prison. The
writ was issued largely on the point
raised by the defense that the iron
workers We're convicted of a continu-
Ing offense-a conspiracy to commit
offenses continuously.
In fixing the amount of bail the
court was influenced by the fact that
the %offenses involved are not extradit.
able. Judge Anderson, who presided
over the trial court at indianapolis,
was authorized to pass on the suita-
bility and adequacy of any bonds Of
fered. District Attorney Miller of In
~dlanapolis, who represented the gov
eminent at yesterdays proceedings,
stated that the bonds of surety COM
panies probably would be acceptable,
but that the surety must schedule in
property twice the amount of the bond.
Ryan's Bond $4,000.
A basis of $4,000 for each years
sentence was used by the court in
fixing the amount of the bonds. AS
Ryan was sentenced to serve seven
years his bond was fixed at $40, 900
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:
"1n this case the writ of error is
an absolute right; a writ of super
sedeas is not an absolute right. 1t
has been the practice of federal Grim.
inal prosecution, however, to allow
writs of supersedeas so as to release
prisoners on bail until the case is
finally decided on review. While the
Judgment of the trial court presum-
ably is correct. yet there is a posi-
bility of substantial error-error so
great that a conviction should not be
sustained. For that reason defend
ants should not be subjected to the
ignominy of Incarceration while their
cases are being reviewed 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 pro-
gress of Justice"
Over 100000 Pledged.
More than $500, 900 has been pledged
in Chicago to furnish bond for the
convicted men, according to P. H.
O'Donnell, attorney for the imprison-
ed labor officials. No difficulty will
be found in raising bonds to free all
of the men he asserted.
Cost Per Individual.
The cost of freedom for each cor.
victed dynamiter is as follows:
Seventy Thousand Dollars.-Frank
NJ. Ryan, Chicago.
Sixty Thousand Dollars.-John T.
Butler, Buffalo; Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San
Francisco; J. E. Munsey, Salt Lake
City; Eugene A. Clancy, San Fran
cisco; Philip A. Cooley, New Orleans;
Frank c. Webb. New York; Michael
J. Young, Boston.
Forty Thousand Dollars.-John H.
Barry, st. Louis; Peter ]. Smith, Cleve.
land.
Thirty Thousand Dollars.-Murray
l.. Pencil, Springfield, ILL.,; MILFORD
Brown, Kansas City, Mo-; Michael ].
Cunnane, Philadelphia; Paul ]. Nor
rim, st. Louis; Henry w. Legleitner,
Denver; Charles N. Beum, Minneapo-
lis; Edward Smythe, Peoria, ILL.,; Geo.
Anderson, Cleveland; Michael J. Han
non, Scranton, Pa; Ernest C. w.
Basey, Indianapolis; VIM. J. Mccain,
Kansas City, Mo-; VIM. E. Reddin,
Milwaukee.
Twenty Thousand Dollars.-Richard
H. Houghan, Chicago; Frank ]. Hig-
gins, Boston; Frank K. Painter. Oma.
ha; Fred Sherman, Indianapolis.
Ten Thousand Dollars. = VIM. S.
Shupe, Chicago; James E. Ray, Peor-
ia, ILL.,; VIM. c. Bernhard, Cincinnati;
Frank E. Phillips, Syracuse, N. Y;
Charles Wachtmeister, Detroit; Fred
] Mooney Dn1uth