The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-02-28

A fine of $4,000 was the penalty fix
ed by a jury in the district court at
Helena Monday evening, when after
two hours of deliberation it returned
verdict of guilty in the case of w
r. Dunn, editorial writer for the Butte
Bulletin and member of the legis-
lature from Silver Bow county who
was charged with sedition in connec-
tlon with an article that appeared in
the Bulletin August 16, 1918, alleged
TO have been calculated to incite re-
slstance to the mandates of the Mon
tana council of defense.
District Judge R. Lee Word. before
whom the case was tried, will sentence
Dunn this morning at 10 o'clock. The
trial lasted week, two days HAVING
been required to get jury. R. r
smith, manager of the Butte Bu]le-
TIN, and Leo Daily, circulation mana
ger, are charged with sedition in the
same information as Dunn, but sep
arate trials We're granted the defend
ants. Smiths and Daly's trials have
not yet been set.
The case went to the jury Monday
evening after County Attorney Lester
q. Loble made the final arguments
for the state. In the afternoon r
II. Wine, deputy county attorney, op-
ehed the arguments for the state. He
was followed by the defendant, Dunn.
who pleaded in his own behalf, B. X.
Wheeler closing for the defense.
). II. Baldwin of counsel. for the de-
tense polled the jury after it reported
and each Of the IL men reported that
1t was his true verdict. The jury:
w. B. McClatchey of the firm of
Platt & Heath company, Helena, fore
man; seyer Jensen, Helena, janitor of
the Penwell block, veteran of the Span.
ish-American war; Herbert Bloom
rancher; Riebeling; Scott Wheat
rancher, Gilman; E. H. Lellum, smell
ter employee, East Helena; T. B. Ma
gle, member of the Helena fire de-
partment; John Coffee, employee OF
National Biscuit company, Helena; J
L. Kuntz, stationary engineer, Mon
tana club, Helena; William Rittel
rancher at Wolf Greek, recently dis
charged from the United States army;
Frank Ernst, stonemason, Helena;
William A. Blanks, colored, employee
of International Harvester company
Helena; saw service in the regular
army; Anton Stransky, mine operator
Rimini.
In the final arguments of the state
Deputy County Attorney J. R. Wine
summed up the states case against
Dunn, declaring that the defendants s
guilt had been proved beyond doubt
to any reasonable and fair minded
person. When Mr.. Wine concluded,
B. K. Wheeler, of counsel for the de-
fense, announced that Dunn would
take advantage of his constitutional
right to address the jury in his own
behalf.
"And so long as have pen in my
hand and tongue to speak with,
will write and say these things,
Dunn told the jury. He reviewed the
organization of the Butte Bulletin
and then launched into an attack on
the Anaconda Copper Mining company
and Will A. Campbell of the Helena
Independent, declaring that these two
were responsible for the prosecution
against the Bulletin because it was
the only newspaper that dared to fight
the Anaconda company on its own
ground.
Dunn declared that the election ma
chinery Of both the democratic and
republican parties in Montana is con-
trolled by the Anaconda company, pub
lie officials of both parties being
bound by the company's bidding.
Attorney Wheeler, who followed
Dunn, blamed Will A. Campbell, a
member of the Montana council of de-
fense, for the prosecution.
County Attorney Lester H. Loble
closed the arguments for the state
!; In mastery address he defined two
classes of itionists-external, as
, represented by the eight men who have
| been convicted in the district of this
county, and internal as represented
by Dunn who, the prosecutor said
were sticking knives into the backs
of the men, the defenders Of this coun.
/ try and it's government. Of the two
kinds of seditionists, he said, Dunr
2 represented the worst.
The county prosecutor declared that
= Dunn's defense that the editorial was
: not aimed at constituted authority
1 of the state, but at the system o1
which, the defense contended the coun