Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-17
ssTAY OF SENTENCE DENIED

sSJAY OF SENTENCE DENIED
Chicago, Nov. 16.-The two-year
fight of William Bross Lloyd. wealthy
communist. to escape a five-year pen
itentiary sentence for violation of the
Illinois espionage act known as the
overthrow law. ended at midnight.
when. according to word reaching here.
Chief Justice Thompson of the Illinois
supreme court, announced he would
deny Lloyd's action to stay the sen
tence until December.
Lloyd and Ii other members of the
communist party were convicted in
Chicago in August. 1920. They were
accused of advocating overthrow of the
government
Their fight TO escape sentence IVES
made on the ground that athe Illinois
overthrow" act, during the val llsurp-
ed authority vested in the federal gov
eminent alone. The United States gu
preme court refused several days ego
TO hear the Lloyd case. Pending the
defense motion before that court,
sentence from the state court until
Thursday.
In his argument on the case, ". ).
Forest, chief of the defense counsel,
attacked the ''oyerthrOw' act solely on
technicalities, stating to the court that
he had nc sympathy for the sentiments
and policy of his clients.
Chief Clerk Vail Of the state su-
prenie court was expected to issue pa
pers for Lloyd's imprisonment. In ad-
dition to prison sentences most of the
defendants were fined various amounts,
Lloyd's fine ~as $4,000.
William Bross Lloyd, millionaire
communiSt-laborite of Ninetka. Il north
shore suburb, inherited a fortune from
his father, the late Henry ID. Lloyd,
Boston philanthropist. His inherited
wealth was greatly augmented in re
cent years while he was a stakeholder
in one of the Chicago daily newspapers.
Lloyd has been known as a radical
for years. He was arrested during the
war by Chicago police for displaying
the red flag above the American flag
o n his automobile. He declared that
the red flag was his flag and that he
flew the Stars and Stripes as a courtsy
to the American government.
! With his wife. Madge Bird. he took
an4active part in the affairs Of the left
wing socialists during the war, and
when the extreme left bolted from the
socialist party after issuing the rad
ical manifesto of July /. 1910, Lloyd
and his friends formed the communist
labor party. which affiliated with the
third in%ternationale of Moscow.
Lloyd was elected sergeant at arms
f the communist-labor party. He was
a close friend of William ID. l"Big
Bill"l Haywood, former T. ". W. Lead
,r, who fled to Russia last year to es-
ape a W-year prison sentence. 1t
was Lloyd who furnished $4,000
bonds for Haywood when be escaped
from his conviction by Judge kenesaw
NJ. Lands and 1t was Lloyd who put up
another $4,000 when Haywood was
caught in the January, 1919, roundup
when Lloyd also was arrested and con
victed. He lost one. of these $4,000
bonds when Haywood fled.
Iloyd's radical associates included
John, Reed, Harvard graduate, maga-
zine writer. author and first b~olsheviki
envoy to the United States, who died
of typhus in Moscow and was buried
under the kremlin walls, Several of
those who were convicted with him
are wanted IN Michigan, including Max
Bedacht Of Cleveland and San Fran
cisco, who was fined $1,000.