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Show COLORADO LABOR LEADER CONVICTED JOHN R. LAWSON CONDEMNED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR KILLING DEPUTY SHERIFF. Attorneys Will Appeal Case and Convicted Con-victed Man Will be Released on Twenty Thousand Dollar Bond Pending Action on Motion. Trinidad, Colo. John R. Lawson, noted labor leader, on Monday was condemned to spend the remainder of his life at hard labor in the Colorado penitentiary. He was found guilty of first degree murder in connection with the death of John Nimmo, a deputy sheriff killed in a strike battle October 25, 1913. Under the Colorado statute making it the duty of the jury to fix the penalty at death or life imprisonment imprison-ment the jury in the district court fixed the milder punishment. Thirty days were given to file a motion mo-tion for a new trial and Lawson was released temporarily in custody of his counsel. Judge Hillyer later announced that the labor leader would be released on $20,000 'bond pending action on his motion mo-tion for a new trial. Lawson's former bond in Las Animas county was $15,-000. $15,-000. The new bond, was arranged for at a conference between Judge Hillyer and Horace N. Hawkins, chief counsel for the defense. . Seated at his lawyers' table after the verdict, John R. Lawson talked calmly of the outcome of his fight for life and liberty. "They may get me, but they can't defeat the cause of labor," Lawson said. "I'm not worrying about myself my-self it's the fight I have been making for the workingmen that I am interested inter-ested in, and that will go ahead just as before. Even for me, It's a long way to the penitentiary. My attorneys will not give up until everything possible pos-sible has been done to save me." |