Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — PRISON FOR SEVEN. [ARTICLE]

PRISON FOR SEVEN.

Gilhooley nnd Six A*«ociate* Sentenced in Cliicnno. Prison for sluggers and for men who hire them was the law’s decree Friday in Chicago after a trial that iu many of its aspects has_heeiL unprecedented in the history of'the city's courts. Charles Gilhooley, head and front of the sluggers brought to light through the killing of Chris J. Carlstrom in s slugging episide, not only received a prison sentence with one of ,liis strong-armed associates tfnd five members of the crowd that hired him, hut he was fined in addition. Gilhooley was given the limit of the law—from one to five years in prison and a $2,000 fine, which amounts to more than eight years’ imprisonment. Peculiar significance attaches to the proceeding, which has been known all nloqg ho-“the Gilhooley case,” through the fact that it is the first case in which members of a union and hired sluggers ever have been tried jointly under the conspiracy law of Illinois. The conspiracy charged-lay iu an agreement by officers of Carriage nnd Wood Workers’ Union No. 4 to procure assaults ou violators of strike orders. The trial consumed 102 calendar days and cost the State’approximately $45,000 abd established a new record as to the length of time required to secure a jury.