Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-21
NEWbERRY 10 KEEP HIS SEAT UNLESS SENATE GUSTS HIM Michigan Official Will Fight to Beat TwO- ear
 Term BROTHER ALSO TO
 SHARE HIS FATE Claims Government is Proceeding on Hypothesis That Joint Wage
 Conference are
 Illegal

i Truman II. NeWberry, junior senator from Michigan, was today convicted by jury of having conspired crim- inally in 1918 to violate the election laws. He was sentenced by Judge 1 Clarence w. Sessions to two years imprisonment and fined $10,O00: re. 1 leased on bond pending an appeal and at once issued a statement de l claring his intention to retain his seat in the senate, unless that body decides otherwise, or the supreme court upholds his conviction. ! Sharing the senator's fate were his brother, John s. Newberry and | 15 campaign managers, including H. King, Detroit. Both received the limit sentence. Charles A. Floyd Detroit was also sentenced to two years, but he was fined only half az much as Newberry. The brother was not sentenced to Leavenworth. The lightest sentence went to George s Ladd of Stutbridge, Massachusetts and he was fined $l ,000
 Sentences were pronounced upon
 
 follows:
 Senator Newberry, two years il, Leavenworth and $10,000 fine; Frederick Cody, two years in Leaven, worth and $10.000 fine; Paul King two years in Leavenworth and $10,- 900 fine; Charles A. Floyd, two years in Leavenworth and 5000 fine; Will liam J. Michel, two years; Allen A i 1o{N fl C fn Rodger M. Andrews, one year and siS months; Milton Oakman, one veal and six months; Richard II. Fletcher one year and three months; James r McGregor, one year and three months; Fred Henry, one year ant three months; Hannibal Hopkins one year and one day: E. V. Chilson Newberry ~ fined $1o,ooo; Harry Q Turner, fined $2.000; B. Frank Elm cry, fined $2,OOO; George S. Ladd fined $1,000.
 The jury was ready with it's yer dict at 11:12 a. m. less than hal an hour later they had been dis charged after freeing 68 of the 8! defendants. After luncheon thu senator and his 1G associates were DTOuSIli lIllo CouIh dSHih'
 Appeal Cases.
 Ordered to stand before the bar the men ranged themselves in crescent the senator on the left ant his brother next. Then came Ala, A .Templeton, president of the De troit board of commerce.; Milton Oakman, Detroit political leader E. V. Chilson, head of the Newberr! speakers bureau and recently attach ed to national republican headauar ters: George s. Ladd, Sturbridge, | good roads advocate and 63 year old today; Roger M. Andrews. Memo nimee. publisher; Richard Fletcher state labor commissioner; William } Michel. a former democratic leade in Michigan and now of Oshkosh who was manager of James w. Helm opponent of Henry Ford in the 191 democratic primary; Fred Henry o Flint. one of Fletchers subordinates Hannibal A. Hopkins, St. Clear. d rector of publicity in the Newberr. campaipn and Harry o. Turner. an James F. McGreeor, Detroit men an
 field aoents of the Newberry or ganization.
 Judge Session asked if any wishe to say anything before sentence wa rronounced. They stood mute. Thel the court read the time honor for mula of sentence.
 l "Trnman H. Newberry. in yon case, it is the judement of the cour . that you be confined in the pinter ! t;ary at Leavenworth for the fu'
 time and period of two years an i. fined $10,O0O" he said.
 ], No one stirred as the a"dienc l learned that the iudpe had sddresse
 against the principal defendant tn heaviest sentence.
 Ninety days were granted defens attornevs in which t" perfect an ar neal. Then court adiourred. Severf jurors said that the defense test
 monv itself was laroely responsibl
 for the adverse verdict. rarticu'ar'
 Kinp's statement that he had warne
 Newberry in New York that tn
 compaign would cost at least $50
 O0n. 7 It was also learned that in vie
 of this testimony and the letter
 between King and Newberry ir ? troduced by the defense to sho s patriotic motive and innocent inter in the campaign, the jurors had r 3 difficulty in agreeino that conspi 2 acy had existed. With this as basis they started to ballot o e whether all the 85 defendants wei
 guilty and stood at 9 to 3 all Frids on this proposition. Early toda
 this vote was changed to 10 to 2. b'
 when a deadlock loomed the majo
 ity agreed not to attempt to convi lthe minor defendants. One vote on e was taken on Newberry. It was IF e 0, for guilty. e Newberry's Statement. r q am proud of the fact that Il l, record in this case contains nothir + of. which I need be ashamed sa '- Newberry. :, e "No proof of fraud, bribery or ot e CT despicable crimes was produce q and I was convicted under. la g that is not thoroughly understo.
 and whose interpretation by u
 court is open to further discussion |kJ Dn~a 0l