The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-03-22
SENATOR NEWBERRY
FACES PRISON AND
4 $4,000 FINE
Meanwhile, Michigan Senator
Declares he Will Hold His
Seat Until Colleagues Say
Otherwise
ey ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit. Mich, March 2o.-Fehls
Ford, Democratic opponent OF lru
nan n Newberry in the 1918 Sena-
torial campaign, declined to discuss
10 conviction of Senator NeWberr!
ond his associates tonight. Asked 1or
. statement Mr.. Ford said he had noun
mo ~ saw at this time either as 10
tie Newberry case or the iortncoln
irs recount of ballots cast IN Tic e'
ection. , ,,or On
Truman H. Newberry. junior Unlteo
States Senator from Michigan was
todav convicted by jury OF having
consnired criminally in 1918 10 'lo-
1ote the election laws. He was SEN
tenced bv Judge Clarence W. Sessions
IN two wears Imprisonment ana llAeu
sin 400, released on bond pending an
appeal and at once issued stateheHt
declaring his intention to retalh us
seat in the Upper House unless tna'
bodv decides otherwise, or the su-
nreme court upholds his conviction.
Sharing the fate of the senator
were his brother, John S. Newperry
and Il campaign managers, mcludlng
Frederick Cody, New York and Paul
n King. Detroit. Both these men re-
ceiyed the limit sentence with tneir
chief.
Charles A. Floyd, Detroit, was also
sentenced TO two years IN the penn.
tentiarv but he was fined only nail
as much as Newberry. The orotner
was fined $4,000 and was one OF
four who were not sentenced to LeaV-
sixteen associates were brought INTO
tn George S. Ladd of Sturbrldge,
Mass. and he was fined $1,000.
The Jury was ready with its YER
dict at l1:12 a. m. Less than nan
an hour later they had been dis
missed by the court after freelng
sixtv-eight of the eighty-five defend
ants. There was brief respite for
luncheon. then the Senator and his
sixteen associates were brocght INTO
court again News of the convlctloHs
had been spread around the city and
the room was jammed
Faces the Bar.
Ordered to stand before the bar,
the men ranged themselves in a cres-
cent the Senator on the left, his
brother next. =.
The stir of ranging the men be-
fore the bar died away to absolute
stiffness. In quiet tones Judge Ses-
sions asked if any of the men wished
to say anything before sentence was
passed. They stood mute Then the
court in even voice read the time
honored formula Of sentence.
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 $4,000" said the judge.
None stirred as the audience caught
the words that showed the judge had
addressed against the principal de-
fendant the heaviest sentence allow
ed by the law. Each succeeding SEN
tence to prison or heavy fine was re-
ceived in stoical silence.
Immediately after the sentences had
been passed Frank c. Daley, Of In
dianapolis, special assistant attorney
general and chief prosecutor, wiped
the slate clean by moving the dis
missal of ten Of the 135 respondents
to the indictment who had pleaded
mo contest" He also moved the dis
missal of Elmer A. White, of Traverse
City, who was given severance be-
cause of illness and of James Daley,
a Muskee n contractor, who went to
Sout.. America on business before
government officials could serve him
with warrant.
so Days for Appeal.
Ninety days were granted the attor-
neys for the convicted men lin which
to perfect an appeal Then court ad-