The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-01-04
LABOR LEADERS CONVICTED
of Forty Indicted Are Found Guilty of Com
plcity In the Nationwide Mcnamara Dynamite Plots

living, spent in the best hotels of the city at the cost of their unions
the ss labor union officials convicted of completely in the nation
wide Mcnamara dynamite plots, tonight occupy cells in the Marion
county Jail
OF the 40 officials who stood trial, % of whom we're influential
in the councils of the International Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, only two were acquitted. Herman G. Self
fort of Milwaukee and Daniel Buckley of Davenport
Although the jury a ont 40 IL hours, it took only the short
est possible time to agree upon the guilt of the 3S. But a single
ballot was taken on each Of these, and in each ballot of the 3S, a
unanimous verdict of guilty" was reached. The remaining 40
hours, except the time necessarily used in sleep and meals, was
taken up in deliberation on the cases of Seiaert and Buckley. Bal
lot after ballot was taken on these two names, several jurors holding
out for convicting them also, but in the end they were acquitted
The 3S prisoners will be taken before Judge Anderson in the
United States district court at 10 o'clock Monday morning for SEN
tence, after which they will be taken forthwith to a federal prison,
probably at Leavenworth, Kansas The possible punishment in
each and every case. under the verdict rendered, varies from any
minimum to a maximum of thirty-nine and one-half years at hard
labor, in the discretion of the court, besides fines of 100000 for
each man.
Under the law it is possible that the total amount of the fines
assessed against the 3s convicted officials may be 80, 2sO.OOO. in
addition to the terms of Imprisonment
The International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers tonight has but two officers out of prison.. E. McGlory
of Cleveland, the newly elected secretary treasurer, and Edward
Lewis, an executive board member of San Francisco.
The end of the great trial, which lasted SO days, was intensely
dramatic, the announcement of the verdict being marked by sobs,
Mysteries and fainting spells on the part of wives, mothers, sisters,
sweethearts and other relatives of the prisoners.
Clancy Expected to Confess
washington, december Ao-H IS probable tna OlaI lVellmOe
and Eugene A. Clancy, the California labor leaders who were con-
victed in the dynamite conspiracy" case in indianapolis to-day, will
be prosecuted on a charge of murder in the Los Angeles Times
dynamite case, in which 81 persons lost their lives. The depart
California State authorities Clancy is expected to make a confess
sion. Both Tveitmoe and Clancy will probably be held under John
Doe indictments found by the Los Angeles grand jury.
VIII Purify Unionism
New York, December 28.-In a statement tonight, Walter
Drew, counsel for the Erectors Association and who did monu-
ton at the outcome of the Indianapolis trial. He declared the con-
victions would be a great moral lesson to the bad element in labor
and would result in a thorough housekeeping.
Drew said that the penalty which can be imposed by Judge
Anderson upon the men who had been convicted on every count
SO IL years Imprisonment.
Samuel Gompers was asked this evening if the fact that the
entire executive board of the Iron Workers with two exceptions had
been convicted would result in that union being expelled by the
American Federation of Labor. He replied the union would be
strengthened and sustained. Further than that he would not dis
cus the verdict in any form. He said, however, he might issue .
statement later.
Called For Trial January Is
Los Angeles, December 28-On January ID the cases against
Tveitmoe. Muncy. Clancy and Johannsen for conspiring to illegally
transport dynamite will come up in the Federal court here. The
against the three former labor leaders will be continued in
definitely, but the case against Johannsen has been set down for
at is the intention of the Government" said United States At
torney A l. Mccormick to-day, "o prosecute these cases against the
California labor leaders. We have as strong a case against the men
as United States Attorney Miller had at indianapolis. Johannsen
was not indicted in Indianapolis and has not been prosecuted for
his part in the national dynamite conspiracy He is as equally
guilty as the other men involved in the case and will be prosecuted"
Convicted Men Sentenced
Indianapolis, Dec. 30-Imprisonment in the federal prison at
Kansas, to-day was imposed as punishment upon 33
of the 38 labor union officials convicted Of having engaged in the de-
of property by dynamite over al area stretching from Bos
ton to Los Angeles.
As the head of the union whose strike was given as the motive
for promoting the dynamite plots, Frank NJ. Ryan was sentenced to
seven years imprisonment, the heaviest sentence of all He is
president of the iron workers international union.
Eight other men. all affiliated with RYAN. were given prison