Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1917 — 78 DRAFT FOES SENT TO PRISON [ARTICLE]

78 DRAFT FOES SENT TO PRISON

Federal Judge Landis Orders Rockford, 111.. Defendants to Chicago Jail. 1 MUST SERVE YEAR AND DAY r Jurist Questions Each Man and Most of Them Take Tone of Defiance Toward Law and Court. . ■ V Freeport, DI., July 6. —Seventy-eight draft evaders were sentenced to serve a year and a day each in the Chicago house of correction by Judge K. M. Landis in the federal district court here. The sentences specified “hard labor.” Two others were sentenced to jail for 30 days and another was sentenced to 90 days. The rest of the 150 odd men on trial will be sentenced later. Judge Landis also ordered that each man be required to register. Quizzes thd Defendants. Individual questioning of each of the defendants brought into, court for sentence in connection xvith opposition to the army drrjff at Rockford was Undertaken by Judge Landis. He asked each man how long he had lived in this country, why he had, not applied for naturalization fHpers—if the man was an alien —and what his reason was for hot registering. ■ , ■> ■ - Opposed, to the War. Most of the culprits said they would not register now, even if given the opportunity. and gave opposition to war as their reasons.