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bands by the verdicts. While the scene
was being enacted in the court room.
the 4-year-old son OF William Bern
hardt, of Cincinnati. one Of the defend
ants, was playing in the lobby with
q red painted toy engine which he had
the pet Of the federal building. and
could not understand when told his
father was going away"
/ Almost the entire stan of executive
1 officials Of the iron workers were con-
victed The only officials not on trial
We're J. E. McClorey, of Cleveland, now
secretary, and Ed Lewis. OF San Fran
cisco, member of the executive board.
Charles w. Miller, the United States
district attorney who prosecuted for
the government, said:
Nothing else could have been ex-
! pected, the evidence Of a nation wide
conspiracy which began in local slug
1 gings and assaults on non-union work.
men and grew, because local authorities
/ failed to prosecute, became finally SO
bold that dynamite was resorted to.
i 1.-THE dynalniters grew bold in violat-
l ing the federal laws in carrying these
deadly explosives on passenger trains.
because they never dreamed of prose-
| cution.
Helps Labor, He Says.
THAT was what emboldened McNa-,
| mara, the secretary of the union, to
| get an appropriation of 1000 month
| 80 that the work of destruction might
| be carried on Systematically. 1t was
what made him bold enough to send
his brother. James B. Mcnamara, to
| blow up not only the Los Angeles
Times building. but also plot to blow
up the whole city of Los Angeles. This
prosecution will be benefit to organ
| lied labor. Y
L at ,r,sn - fl,,
The whole United States owes a debt
of gratitude to that jury
The foreman of the jury was Frank
Dare. New Lisbon. Ind. retired farm
er. All the other jurors We're farmers
or country merchants.
| Immense crowds assembled in the
streets about the federal building when
the yerdicts We're being returned and
when the prisoners We're brought out,
each handcuffed between two deputies,
the street became SO clogged that police
had to force the people back.
Between Justice and Liberty"
AS they emerged, handcuffed. on the
| top steps of the building, with gray
! haired Frank Ryan. his face scanned
with care, in their lead. the group Of
prisoners stood between two colossal
marble statues representing liberty
and justice. The scene was bathed in
a golden winter sunlight. The crowds
looked up, but We're silent.
| Silence, too, attended the prisoners
as, in a file almost half block long.
they marched linked to their keepers
toward the Marion county Jail. People
! looked from upper parts of the build.
ings from the windows of street cars.
and from the sidewalks but there was
lno demonstration. For five blocks the
prisoners thus marched through the
streets to reach the jail in the south
eastern section of the city.
4 The only request by counsel for the
defense after the verdicts We're read
was by w. n. Harding, who asked that
the jury be polled. The judge replied
that 1T would take too much time to
poll each juror on each count against
each defendant and the matter was
passed.
The 40 labor union officials headed
by President Frank M. Ryan, of the
lIron Workers International union,
who are accused Of joining the Nc
namara dynamite plots In strike
faced the possibility OF another wait for
the reutrn of verdlcls. Federal Judge
Albert b. Anderson had adjourned
court until $3.50 a. M. which was the
earliest any report from the jury might
be received. Before the judge appeared
| i'm his chambers the jury. under guard
in an upper floor Of the building, al
ready had begun their second days de-
alterations to determine the outcome
of what the government asserted has
been the most important trial involving
union labor officials ever held In
| federal court
Strenuous Trial.
/ lit was expected that if there ap
4 peared no prospect of word soon COM
ing from the jury room. Judge Ander
son, after waiting short time would
adjourn court until this afternoon so
4 as not to keep the defendants and
4 those connected with the trial idly
sitting in the room.
Since the trial began on October L,
| which was the second anniversary of
the killing of 81 persons in the Los
Angeles Times explosion, all attendants
at the trial have been in court six
hours a day, with the exception only
of a day and half when one of the
Jurors was sick. There have been no
adjournments on account of holidays or
to accommodate attorneys.
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