Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1914 — Must Serve Sentences. [ARTICLE]

Must Serve Sentences.

Washington, March 9.—President Frank M. Ryan and 23 members of the. Bridge and Structional steel workers union, convicted in the celebrated dynamite conspiracy cases, must serve their penitentiary sentences the supreme court decided today. The court refused to review their conviction in the lower federal court at Indianapolis and Chicago. Denial of the writ of review exhausted the last resource of the defendants. Confessions of Ortie McManigal, former secretary of the union formed the basis of the convictions of the defendants who appealed to the supreme courts. They were tried and convicted at Indianapolis of conspiracy to transport dynamite in interstate commerce. Their conviction was recently affirmed by tlio appellate federal court at Chicago.