Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1915 — Lawson Given Life Sentence. [ARTICLE]

Lawson Given Life Sentence.

A verdict was returned Monday afternoon sentencing John R. Lawson to life imprisonment for the killing of John Nemmo, a deputy sheriff, in a battle with the strikers in Colorado in 1913. In a comment on the verdict Lawson said: “They may get me but they can not defeat the cause of labor.” Lawson was the most .prominent leader in the recent coal miners strike in Colorado, which was one of the most notable labor conflicts in the history of the United States.