Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-08-23
I'D |. WV. CHIEFS
ARE FOUND GUILTY
Haywood and Others Convicted
of Hindering War.
JURY WAS OUT So MINUTES
Defendants Face 20 Years lmprison.
ment and Heavy Fine-Trial Was
Started on April ALE Sent
to Jail.

Chicago, Aug. 19-William ID. Hay
wood and 90 other members of the l.
w. w. were found guilty in Judge Lam
dis court of disloyal acts. The jury
was out just So minutes. 1t is report
ed the verdict was reached on the first
ballot.
The trial was started on April l. 1t
took % days to get jury and the
iurymen have listened to evidence con-
tinuOuSIy for more than three months.
The verdict seemed to overwhelm the
100 defendants, many of whom appar-
emily were confident of acquittal. BY
the jury's verdict they stand guilty OF
conspiracy to hamper the conduct OF
the war.
Haywood Gets Shock.
Haywood, seated at his attorneys
table, was fiddling with a toothpick
when the verdict was read. He
started his face became ashen, the
toothpicl1 fell in bits, brushed by the
grip Of his fat fingers. With a sigh
he sank back into his chair.
It had been feared by court attaches
that, were the 100 convicted, there
might be a riot in court. Instead there
was dead, almost GREATNESS, silence.
Armed police and United States deputy
alert.
Slowly the men filed cut after hear
ing the verdict.
The 100 men marched through lane
of tears to the north room on the sixth
floor of the federal building, where
their supper had been laid out nightly.
They ate but little.
For many of them, men who have
been weakened by the lives they have
led, the verdict might as well have
been for life or the rope. Twenty years
is the maximum they may get and
two years a minimum. Fines can
range from $500 to $4,000 each.
All Go to jail.
Probably a third of the defendants
have been out on bail. At night every
one of the 100 went to the county Jail.
Convicted, the bonds that have meant
freedom to them were automatically
cancelled. Judge Lands refused to al
low bail.
Frank K. Nebeker, assistant United
States attorney general, worked for
more than year upon the prosecution
of the l. w. w. He came to Chicago
from his home in Salt Lake City and
laid the plans for the raids of last Sep
tember He was visibly delighted.
With Claude Porter of Des Moines,
Nebeker has prepared what attorneys
say is one Of the most complete and
elaborate records of any trial In the
history of the United States.
Mr.. Haywood Talks.
After the verdict came In Haywood
sat, silent for a time, the picture of
detection. Then newspaper men asked
him for a statement. He said:
81 believed Judge Lands instruc-
tons pointed clearly to an acquittal.
Well, well-we can only make the best
of It,"
It is Haywood's first conviction. For
20 years he has been a labor agita-
tor. For 90 years he has had his will
unbridled. He was tried for the MUIR
der of Governor Steunenberg of Idaho
and acquitted. He has run afoul of
the law many times. But until now
big Bill" Haywood has always come
out victorious.
End of the Case.
The case, which has dragged through
four months, came to a sudden end
when Attorney Vanderveer for the de-
Tense announced with no warning that
he would close the case without argu-
ment.
Judge Lands dismissed the defend
ants and the jury until two o'clock in
order to complete his instructions to
the jury. AT 2:30 the court began
reading his instructions. Shortly after
four o'clock the jury retired for DELHI
Grafton and at 5 10 o'clock it was an
nounced the verdict had been reached.