Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March 90.
| United States Senator Truman H.
| Newberry, maker of laws, today felt
the weight of the law. Standing in
! federal court here, he was sentenced
to two years in the Leavenworth
| federal penitentiary and to pay
| $4,000 fine. Sixteen followers, con-
| victed with him of fraudulent prac-
tees in the elections Of 1913, were
sentenced to imprisonment or fines
| or both, as follows:
Frederick Cody, two years, $10,-
| 900; Paul H. King, two years, $10,-
| 600; Charles A. Floyd, two years.
! $4,000; William Nickel, two years;
| Allan Templeton, one year, six
months; Roger Andrews, one year,
81 months; Milton Oakman, one year,
| six months; Richard Fletcher, one
| year, three months; James F. Nc
| Gregor, one year, three months; John
S. Newberry, $4,000; Harry o. Tur-
ner, $4,000; 3. f. Emery, $4,000; Fred
| Henry, one year, three months; II. (
Hopkins, one year, one day; q. "
Chilson, one year, one day; George
4 S. Ladd, $1,000.
/ D
ed the convicted men o sixty-day stay
| of sentence, to permit appeals. Bonds
| for all the men were posted by Sen
| ator Newberry, who asserted he was
not ashamed Of conviction.
He will take the case to the SUI
preme court, he said, for a ruling on
| the merits of the corrupt practices
| act. His greatest concern was for
| those who had helped him win his
office, and who, at the end OF an /!
| eight weeks trial, had been found
| guilty with him. Sixty-eight de-
! PENDANTS were acquitted by the jury.
The trial ending today with the !,
| sentencing of the senator and six
| teen Of his workers, had brought out
q story of lavish use of money in
| Newberry's campaign against Henry
Ford in 1918. The eight weeks of
strained attention to detailed testi-
mony had engraved lines in the faces
] Of the defendants. One of thems
Paul H. King, had collapsed and was
! unable to attend the last sessions. -
Men Dazed, wives weep
With the verdict came the reaction.
| The court room was crowded. De-
PENDANTS and their wives occupied
the front rows. Spectators damned
the room to the doors and an over
| flow struggled down the outside
walks. The verdict was read. Wom-
! en- began crying as the list OF con-
victed men increased. Then there
was a burst OF laughter. A hysterical
woman was led from the room by
| her friends. Others followed her.
| Tears coursed down the cheeks of
men acquitted as they were embraced
| by wives and friends.
The convicted men appeared dazed,
| but the women sensed the situation,
| and the troubles Of the defendants
| were momertarily forgotten in caring
for them. Joy over acquittal was
tempered for some as they tried to
cheer close friends who had been
| found guilty.
| Mrs. Newberry, wife OF the CHIEF
| defendant, was calm at the rendering
| Of the verdict. But she retired to
| her room at the hotel Immediately on
| adjournment of court and did not
appear until tonight when, with her
husband and son, she left for De-
troit. !,
When sentences were passed, after
| a noon recess, the women were not .
| IN evidence. The shock of the verdict
was too great for most of them.
Newberry Issues Statement
"The great satisfaction to be
drawn from the conclusion Of these
proceedings is that there is not one
word in the record that will ever
cause any member Of my family
or any friends to apologize for or
explain, or to feel ashamed. All
charges Of corruption, fraud or bri-
berry in the primary or election were
dismissed by the court, and not one
word Of evidence was introduced in
connection Herewith.
my lifelong memory Of the loyal
ty and devotion of the men who
were indicted with me will be always
of the greatest value and the fact
that 118 have been acquitted and
five counts Of the indictment have
been eliminated is some evidence of
the extravaganza Of the charges as
presented. My heartfelt congratula-
lions go out to these men whose ac-
lions have been justified and who
have been completely vindicated and
acquitted.
1.-THE charge that am convicted
of is conspiracy to violate an election
law, which has never yet been re-
viewed by any appellate court, nor
has any judicial determination of
that law ever been recorded until
now! I am charged with partici-
pating, as a candidate, In an election
for senator from Michigan, with |
knowledge that the cost of the cam
paign would exceed $3.50, which
sum was to be contributed by my
friends. If any one had ever men
toned to me that the law could be
interpreted to bring about this re-
suit, certainly neither I, myself, nor
any intelligent human being could
possibly have entered into a cam
paign under the circumstances that
| confronted me at that time.
Will Not Resign
II certainly shall not resign my
seat in the senate, unless required
to do so by the senate itself, or I'M
til the supreme court of the United
States has affirmed the interpreted
ton of this law under which the
alleged conspiracy is said to have
occurred Moreover, unless my as
sociates in the senate deem it I'M
wise, I expect to continue to repre-
sent the people of Michigan, who sent
me to the United States senate"
Testimony offered by the defense
was the determining factor i'll bring
ing the jury to the verdict of guilty
without Paul Kings testimony
that he told Senator Newberry the
campaign would cost $4,000, the
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