The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-03
PUSH RED CASES
With Twenty Communists Sem
fenced Attorneys Go Ahead.
Plan to Clear Docket~Of Con-
spiracy Charge Trials,
TO 60 AFTER HAYWOOD
Are Eighty-Six Followers of
Lloyd Awaiting Trial.
TOpekan Was Among Those
Found Guilty Yesterday.

States Attorney Maclay Hoyne to-
day expressed confidence of obtaining
a verdict against big Bill" Haywood
and thirty-six other I. w. W. as re-
suit of conviction of William Bross
Lloyd and nineteen fellow members
of the Communist Labor party on q
charge of conspiring to overthrow the
federal government.
The L W. w, who were arrested
shortly after Lloyd and his compan-
ions last New Years day, were held
for violation of the same statute the
latter were tried under-the Illinois
sedttion law.
The Lloyd trial constituted a test
case, affecting similar cases in other
cities as well as Chicago.
Lloyd and his fellow defendants
have been released on $4,000 bonds
each, pending hearing of their appeal
for a new trial September 20.
Prepare to Clear Docket.
With twenty members of the Com
munist Labor party under sentence
for conspiring to advocate the over
throw of the government by force, the
state today prepared to clear the
docket of radical cases at the fall term
Of court.
Eighty-six communists, thirty-sewen
I. W. W. and three women commun-
lists laborites, caught in the same ma
tion-wide roundup which trapped Will
liam BrosS Lloyd and his nineteen as
sociates, found guilty by a jury last
night. remain to be tried.
Evidence in all the cases is practi-
cally the same and yesterdays victory
for the state when every defendant
brought to trial was found guilty, has
materially strengthened the prosecu-
ton in the coming trials. the state at
torney's office declared today. The
eighty-six communists will be the next
Z 81 %r-9o cri- mt
States Attorney Lloyd-Heth an
nounced today.
VIII Press All Cases.
The state will press the cases I'M
diately after the summer vacation of
| the court The communists to be
brought to trial include such well
known radicals as Rose Pastor Stokes,
| Nicholas I. Hourwich. editor OF NoVy
Miruj Of New York and former en-
pIOyer of Leon Trotzky: Charles z.
Ruthenberg OF Cleveland, Alex Stok-
litsky Of Mexico City, John Schwartz
of Boston. and many others.
Like those commandments con-
victed yesterday. the communists are
charged with having endorsed the
manifesto of the Third internationale
adopted at Moscow last year by the
Russian soviet.
Twenty Get Sentences.
William Bross Lloyd. millionaire
-
of the Communist Labor party, today
stood convicted Of conspiracy to over
throw the United States government.
The verdict was returned by jury in
state criminal court last night after
ten hours elaboration.
Lloyd and six of his co-defendants
were sentenced from one to five years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary;
eleven were. given one year in the
county Jail. and the other two were
fined 1000 each The penalties were
| prescribed as follows:
One to five years Imprisonment
Lloyd. with an additional $4,000 fine;
Ludwig Lore, New York, with $4,000
| fine; Arthur Proctor, Chicago, with
| $4,000 fine; Max Bedacht. San Fran
cisco, with $1,000 fine, Jack Carney.
Duluth, with $1,000 fine; Niels Kjar.
| Chicago and L. z. Katterfield, Digh-
I ton, Kan.
one year Imprisonment = Edgar
Owens. Moline, H.: L. K. ENGLAND,
Moline, ILL.,; Sam F. Hankin, Chicago;
Morris A. Stoller, Chicago; James A.
Messenger, Chicago; Charles Krum-
bein. Chicago; Samuel Ash, Chicago;
Perry Shipman,-Rock Island; DR.. Os-
car J. Brown, DeKalb, ILL.,; Edwin
Firth, Indianapolis and DR.. Karl F.
| Sanberg, Chicago.
Thousand dollar fine-Niels J. Kris
Jensen, Chicago, and John Vogel, Chi
The defendants. who were specific
ally charged with plotting to establish
a soviet government here thru the
agency of a general strike, formally
requested a new trial. When this was
denied they took an appeal Mean
time, all will be held under bond.
L. E. Katterfield. one of the mem
bers of the communication party
sentenced to from one to five years
| Imprisonment for conspiracy to over
throw the United States government
formerly lived in Topeka and attended
Washburn college.