Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-18
|. VI. " 5. GIVEN
SENTENCES ONE
TO TEN YE ARs
Forty-three Of Forty-Six De-
PENDANTS on Trial at Sacra-
mento Sentenced to Prison
by the Court,


Sacramento, Calf, Jan. 17.--Sen-
fences ranging from one 10 ten years
imprisonment were imposed today by
United States District Judge F. H.
Rudkin of Spokane. Wash, on forty
three of the forty-six defendants con-
victed In the Industrial Workers of
the World ant-war conspiracy case.
Sentence on Miss Theodore Pollok
only woman defendant; Basile SAT-
fores and A. l.. Fax. the only three
defendants represented BY an attor-
ncy was held Up by their counsel
who said a motion for a new trial
would be offered
The sentences came as climax to
morning of oratory in which large
number of the forty-three defendants
who had maintained silence through
out the trial, made imprisoned ad-
dresses to the court.
When the forty-six defendants APP
peared in United States district court
for sentence today, Mortimer Down
ing, defendant. made an lmpassion-
ed address to the court This broke
the silent defense" maintained by
forty-three of the defendants since
the beginning of'the trial.
Industrial Workers of the World
principles do not conflict with those
of right and justice. Downing said.
I'VE propose to build IN our own
organization in spite of tie statutes
You are not playing with children;
you are moving against men" he
said
I'VE believe this war was inevitable
The junker gang had no place in
modern society. But all war is a sur
viyal of thn bestinl etata"
James Price, another defendant
also spoke. the defendants standing
respectfully While their associates ad-
dressed the court
Special AGENT objects,
While one of the defendants was
speaking, Robert Duncan special
agent of the department of justice, in
terrupted him and declared the court
proceedings were being converted into
a "wobbly meeting" He urged the
court to stop 1t, but was Overruled
and the defendants continued their
remarks.
Nviliam Hood, one of the first de-
PENDANTS to be arrested. closed for the
silent defense" "p
Judge Rudkin offered but little
comment in passing sentence
The following sentences were inn
posed Ten years IN LeaVenWorth,
Kans., federal penitentiary Mortimer
Downing, chairman of the silent de-
fensc' trial committee; Frederick Es-
mon, Chris Luber, Philip Mclaughlin,
John Graves. J, Tori. James Quinlan,
Ed Quigley, George O'Connel Roy
Connors, John Potthast Henry Ham
mer, Peter Barnardini, Elmer Ander-
son. Myron Sprague, Caesar Tabib.
Robert Comedian. Frank Elliott,
Harry Gray. Gabe Brewer, Godfrey
Ebel, william Hood, Vincent Santelli,
George Voetter
Five years in Leavenworth peni
Tertiary: Edward Carey, John l.. Muir
ply, Herbert Stredwick.
Four years in Leavenworth: Robert
Feehan, James Mulrooney, James
Price. rs.
Three years in Leavenworth; Jo-
seph Carol. Otto Elsner,
Two years in Leavenworth: Joseph
Harper, Harry Iatour. Frank Moran,
r. Reilly, Edward Anderson. Felix
Cedno.
One year IN San Francisco county
Jail Harry Donovan,s w. II. Faust,
Charles Koenig, Wilbur Miller, Al
bert whitehead
julius Weinberg, another defend
ant, who pleaded guilty before the
trial and appeared as government
witness, was sentenced to two months
in the San Francisco county jail.