Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1920 — CHICAGO LAWYER CONVICTED [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO LAWYER CONVICTED

Isaac E. Ferguson I* Found Guilty of Criminal Anarchy In N*w York. <. New York, Nov. I.—lsaac E. Ferguson. a Chicago lawyer, and Charles E. Ruthenberg of Cleveland, were convicted of criminal anarchy <>y a jury in the Supreme court here last night. Justice Weeks immediately sentenced them to prison for terms of from five to ten years each. The men had been on trial since Oct. 6, under an Indictment returned last year, alleging that in promoting publication of the communist manifesto in the Revolutionary Age they advocated the overthrow of organized government by force.