The daily progressive-miner., 1918-03-22
H. A. DAWSON FOUND GUILTY OF
 SEDITION BY JURY IN ConTRa. s COURi
Four Witnesses Testify Again Deendan-Case Complete
 Victory for the Prosecuting Attorney

4 little pamphlet. called Three in One" containing not more than eight pages. and emblazoned with the Am. erioan flag on the outside and the Pledge Of Allegiance 10 that flag. and yet containing the most obscene and scurrileus language, masquerading under what purporis to be the oaths taken by the order of the Knights of Columbus and the priests of the Cath olic Church. was the pivot on which the trial again H. \. Dawson, charged with distributing seditious literature. was hinged. Vim. Winston. was coun- sel for the defense, and Asst. Dist Attorney Ragan conducted the trial for the government.
 Dawson was arrested the early part of the week by the federal authorities after f had been proven that he had made the rounds Of the town, stopping in various places of business. and speaking 10 the owners. women i'll three cases. and exhibiting and read ing extracts of the pamphlet. His trial started at three o'clock yester- day and ehe work Of selecting jury was soon completed. The jury was composed ot Irl Thatcher. J. J. Metz, :. E. Steers. C. J. Collins, J. Birch, J. AdE.ns. [. (. Howard. J. shelton. F. r. Patching, (. A. Patterson and MT EsgHan
 Mrs F j. Hunt was the first wit ness called ty the prosecuting attor- ner. she told in straightforward manner how me defendant had called on her il her husbands place Of bus iness on Monuay. March IS. and exhib- ting the pamphlet. asked her if she had received copy. She replied that she had nor, bu- that aIr. Hunt had seen 2 copy last fall sometime. She stated then. that she believed the copy had been MT Cannon's, but the defendant assured her that il was his own. Mrs. Hunt explained that she had been curious to see the booklet as she had heard i discussed and at the time that 1ir. Hunt had seen il he had taken steps 10 ascertain whether or not ii vas true. that it had been reprinted from the Congressional Record. .. the Sixty Second Congress, Third Session, for Saturday, February I5. 1913. Gs claimed in the pamphlet He wired 70 Washington, D. C.. to Delegate Wickersham and received a reply to t,e effect that THERE WAS NO SUCH FORM PRINTED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Of that date. CT mention Of iJ. Mrs. Hunt af- ter reading the pamphlet, remarked that I sounded 70 her. not like the Knights of Columbus, but more like the German atrocities that one reads about in the newspapers. The de fendant replied that he. himself, did not believe half Of what he read in the neuspa pers, and that furthermore he did not believe the Germans did those things, and that, fl they did, why f was no more than the French or British, or even Americans had done in the Spznish-American war to the Philippines.
 l. J Inlan. the next witness called stated that the defendant had stopped him on the street on Monday, Marcn IS, had saoH'n him and read part or, the pamph,at "Three. in One" which he identified on the stand as the same ne had seen.
 Mrs James Newman, next to testi- fy, stated thac on Monday morning at nine o'clock the defendant had enter. ed her shop, and started to read the pamphlet 10 her. but she had told him she didn't care 10 listen to it, that "it was all rot" and left the shop.
 Ii. A. Rice, manager of the Revill.- Hotel. was calleQ and testified that he had been accosted by the defendant al the counter of the Hotel on Mon- day afternoon and being busy at the time. told him he had no time to look at the book. The defendant insisted and Mir Rice stated that he took the pamphlet and glanced over the first few pages and handed 1t back without any remarks.
 P. J. Gilmore, a member Of the Knights Of Columbus was next asked to read the pamphlet thru and state whether q not The oath contained therein was the one taken by the or der. lie replied that it was not, nor was anything else in the book true.
 The government then called Mrs Dawson Cooper to the stand Mrs Cooper stated that about two weeks ago the defendant had engaged In con versat;on with her al the Hotel where she lives, and began talking about the