News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-02-16
0RINDELL Gets
SING SING TERM
New York Building Labor Gar
Must Stand Trial on Other
Indictments.
FACES THIRTY YEAR PENALTY
Unmoved as Sentence to Pshitentiary
IS lnposed-Justice McAvoy Denies
Motion tor New Trial-Case to
Be Appealed.

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New York.--Robert p. Brindell, for
mer labor Gear" in the New York
building trades, and by virtue of his
position as chairman of the building
trades council leader of 10000 work.
lngmen, was sentenced to serve a term
of not less than five and not more than
ten years at hard labor in Sing Sing
Prison by Justice John V. McAvoy In
the supreme court. He was convicted
i Of eXtorting $1,000 from Max ArOnson,
owner of building under construction
at 23G West Thirty-sixth, after calling
a strike
AS slightly more than two months
/ may be marked off each year for good
behavior, it was sale at the district at
torneys office that the sentence meant
that Brindell virtually would be I'M
prisoned for four years.
After sentence mad been imposed it
was learned that Samuel Untermyer,
who prosecuted Briadell, would put the
dethroned labor leader On trial under
several indictments in which he is
jointly named With Peter StadmulIer,
Richard Pike and Joseph Moran, walk
! ing delegates of the building trades
council The maximum sentence for
Brindell, if found guilty on all of the
six indictments against him, would
total tifty-tWO years
At half-past ten William Penny, the
chief clerk, called out Robert 2.
Brindell to the bar" \ little door at
the rear was opened, Sheriff David
Knott appeared. 4wO feet behind him
came BriGde.I Ho wore a long dark
ulster and carried :, brown fedora tat.
Back of Linn walked Deputy Sheriff
Thomas Burke
All eyes were focused on Brindell as
he strobe with head erect a matter of
20 PAGES to the bar His appearance
seemed altered. He no longer was the
jaunty smiling labor leader who re-
marked on the occa.ion of his first
aTaignment that he could more easily
furnish 0,000 men instead of 100000
iron men," when his bail was fixed at
S1O0,0OJ.
RrindelI's five nights on a cot in the
Tnmbs appeared to have aged him con-
siderabIy. There were large pouches
under his eyes. His prominently arched
eyebrows We're raised inquiringly, and
WavT wrinkles crossed his forehead.
iGht patches notified his dark, mas
sive face. He Steeled himself for the
ordeal by intakes of breath through
his heavy, parted lips
When the party reached the bar
Shcrin Knott stood at Erindell's right.
NeNt to the Sheriff was j. J. O'Connor
~ Brindell's counsel, and ON the other
side Deputy Sheriff Burke. Mr.. Little
ton, Mr. Untermyer and other counsel
We're inside the enclosure reserved for
)hem.
Clerk Penny asked: Robert T. Brin-
dau what have you to say as to why
Judgment should not now be pro-
aouneed against YOU, according to
uw?"
Mr. Litileton moved for an arrest of.
Judgment and for new trial on the
ground that the court was without
that the verdict was CON
rary to NW, and clearly against the
violence. He argued that the court has
the jury, especially on his
'equpst to acquit:
The court asked Mr.. Littleton if
here was anything he wished to say
.cfure sentence was pronounced The
attorney shook his head and did not
peak.
The scene attending the sentencing
{ the labor leader who had controlled
lJ,00O Workingmen and throu IA them
ud dominated the building Industry
+ the city was perhaps the ..a>t re-
rJrkabIe that has been Witnessed
pom the sentencing of any Individual
! the criminal courts building la many
ears
Old court attendants SaiG Than even
] The height of the public few over
re ThaW and Becker trials nothing
nd been seen like this demonstration.