Show SON LAWSON GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE y I Labor abor Leader Reads Statement to Court Declaring His Trial Travesty on Justice Trinidad Colo Cole Jul July 12 Denied Denied a 1 anew anew new ew trial b by Judge Judg-e Granby In Inthe inthe the Third district court In which oI on May Iny 3 he ho was found guilty of ot the murd murder mur mur- d der r In the first degree of or John Jhn NImmo a r deputy sheriff during a battle near neat Ludlow on October 2 25 1913 John R. R I Lawson wRon International board member of ot the United Mine Workers of or ormer America Amer mer merIca ica lea most prominent of at union officials In the conduct of et tho Colorado coal strike tonight occupied a cell coll In iii the county count jail La Lawson was as escorted to the jail b by tho sheriff and was accomPanied accompanied accompanied by a number of at union officials This for tor me mo Is Just the beginning paid Fald Lawson as he ho entered tho the Jail I maintain I have o broken no law and committed no crIme unless It bo ho that I Iam Iam am a coal Il miner honored n b by my fellow 11 I u WI UI LII II VL LIL faith that my devotion will stand even e this tho the acid t test st for tor the tho maintenance of or their principles My y experience may help to awaken walten others to the tho living wrongs in our world calling as DS definitely definitely toda today as ns In time past for tOI a rem rem- ed cd edy y In denying the motion for fr a Q new trial Judge reviewed each cach separate separate sep sop arate amate contention for tor the tho applicant and stated at the tho conclusion of ot his ruling ruHn that in his ju Judgment the defendant had been heen given Iven a fair tair and Impartial trial l ly y A JUr jury of or twelve twel men and that It was an unpleasant duty dun under tho the law to deny the motion Lawson was sentenced to spend pend the remainder of or his life at hard labor In Inthe Inthe inthe the state penitentiary When hen asked by the court If Ie he had hadan an any statement to make malte before judgment Judg was pronounced Lawson rose and road read roada reada a lengthy length statement In which ho he maintained main maln- tamed his Innocence and charged that ho had been made the victim victim of lOt a cor cor- controlled prosecution DurInS' DurInS During During Dur Dur- ing InS the tho reading of ot this statement Law- Law eon was visibly affected and faltered more than once It is plain said Lawson to the Hie court that nothing I can say or do will change your fixed determination to start me down clown tho dark path to Imprisonment Im ira- for tor life lite Attack Attacks Judge I Continuing he said In Ti Un nam o nf nr tta nt nf HIV In I u u country which I respect I protest against your our right to pass an any Judgment jUdgment judgment Judg jUdg- ment upon me inc It is in this case tose that you Oll were appointed to the bench this spring for the trial of or myself my ray- self and my associates Fresh from the employment of at the tho coal operators of oC Colorado including the Rockefellers who have engineered these prosecutions prosecutions prosecutions yourself a coal company attorney ney tiey you ou were so prejudiced against me that my case in this court curt was a Q travesty traves traves- ty on Justice Today tho the supreme court of t Colorado in Denver is reviewing your our conduct Lawson charged that he had been made the tho victim of a n. picked hand-picked Jury Concluding Lawson looked up from the thet t typewritten page and with lips that trembled said Solemnly facing Iron bars and prison walls I assert m my love for tr Justice and m my faith In its Its' ultimate triumph net not neta nota a Justice of ot theory theon but of or a II reality extending to men women and children whoso proper equality of or opportunity It embraces Attorney I V. V W. W Cark representing Lawson asked for tor and W was lS granted sixty days das to file a bill of ot exceptions and thirty days days' stay of ot execution Counsel also asked that pending action on Ott the appeal by the supreme court that ho convicted man bo allowed to go SO on bond This the tho court refused and tho the labor leader was taken b by bt the sheriff to tho the count county jail Seek Writ to Dar Bar Judge Denver Donver July 12 The l-The The state supreme court toda today took under advisement the application of at Horace N. N Hawkins and A. A M. M Belcher attorneys for the United Mine Workers Worker of ot America for a writ barring Judge Granby of ot the Third Judicial district from nn at nt tho the trial of three former coal mine strikers at Tho application Tho-application application was opposed b by Attorney At- At torney General Farrar and Assistant Attorney General Norton Montgomery Montgomer The application charged that Judge Hillyer is prejudiced and cannot give It a fair fair and Impartial trial asserting that before beCore his lila appointment the Judge was In tho the employ of ot tho the coal conI opera opera- tors I STAHL CHANGES PLEA a No Now New York Jul July 12 Gustt Gustav Gustav Stahl German reservist reser t who swore that lie saw four tour guns mounted aboard the Lusitania the tho day before ho sailed on her last laet voyage withdrew today his hla pIca plea of ot not guilty to the indictment charging him with perjury and substituted substituted three pleas picas in abatement based on ont t technical points Argument on tho the picas pleas will bo heard at Dt a n. later date |