The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-03-25
NEWBERRY FOUND
GUILTY BY JURY
JUNIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR
DECLARED GUILTY.
Sentenced to Two Years.
Brother and Fifteen Campaign Man.
ayers, Including Cody Of N. Y.
and King of Detroit Guilty.

Grand Rapids, Mich, March 20
Truman H. Newberry, junior United
States senator from Michigan, was to-
day convicted by jury of having con-
spired criminally in 1918 to violate
the election laws. He was sentenced
by Judge Clarence W. Sessions to two
years Imprisonment and fined $1O,-
| 600, released on bond pending an ap-
peal, and at once issued statement
declaring his intention to retain his
seat in the upper house unless that
body decides otherwise, or the su-
preme court upholds his conviction.
Sharing the fate of the senator
were his brother, John S. NeWberry,
and Is campaign managers, including
Frederick Cody, of New York, and
Paul H. King, of Detroit. Both these
men received the limit sentence with
their chief.
Charles A. Floyd, of Detroit, was
also sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary, but he was fined only
half as much as Newberry. The
brother was fined $4,000 and was
one of four who was not sentenced to
Leavenworth. The lightest sentence
went to George S. Ladd, Of Sturbey-
dage, Mass, and he was fined $1,000.
The jury was ready with its verdict
at 11:12 a. m. Less than half an
hour later they had been discharged
by the court after freeing 65 Of the 50
defendants. There was a brief re-
spite for luncheon, then the senator
and his 16 associates were brought
into court again. News of the con-
victions had been spread around the
city and the room was jamr1ed. Or
dered to stand before the bar, the men
ranged themselves in a crescent, the
senator on the left and his brother
next. The stir of ranging the men
before the bar died away to absolute
stiffness. In quiet tones Judge Ses-
sions asked if anyof these men wished
to say anything before sentence was
pronounced. \They stood mute. Then
the court in even tones read the time
honored formula of sentence.
Limit of Law.
Truman H. Newberry, in your
case, it is the judgment of the court
that you be confined in the peniten-
tiary at Leavenworth for the full
time and period of two years and be
fined S10,000," said the judge.
No one stirred as the audience
caught the words that showed the
Judge had addressed against the prin-
cipal defendant the heaviest SEN
tence allowed by law. Each successd-
ing sentence to prison or heavy fine
was received in stoical silence.
Immediately after the sentences
had been passed, Frank G: Daily, of
indianapolis, special assistant attor-
ney general and chief prosecutor,
wiped the slate clean by moving the
dismissal of ten of the 1875 respond
ents to the Indictment who had plead
"concontendre." He also moved the
discharge Of Elmer White, of Ira
verse City, who was given severance
because of illness, and of James
Daily, a Muskegon contractor who
went to South America on business
before government officials could
serve him with a warrant.
Ninety days were granted the at
torneys for the convicted men in
which to perfect an appeal. Then
court adjourned.
eve are all with you, senator,
said several of the freed defendants,
as they crowded around him. The
chief figure in the trial grasped their
hands. His wife, brother and son
we're with him, Mrs. NeWberry show
ing the effects of the verdict only in
the determined composure with which
she met the fearful condolences OF
wives of other defendants
What tears there were appeared,
in fact, only among the wives of the
men who had been freed.
Judge Sessions announced he would
allow the defense go days in which to
perfect an appeal and meanwhile
would release the convicted men on
bonds.