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Show IILLIONA5RE RED MUST SERVE TERM PRISON DOORS TO SIT BM OF MIMMST William Bross Lloyd Inherited Inher-ited Fortune From His Father. BECOMES RADICAL Close Friend of Haywood Accused of Attempted U. S. Overthrow. CHICAGO, Nov 10. A move to obtain ob-tain a pardon from Governor Small of Illinois for William Br.j- Lloyd wealthy communist labor party bailer, bail-er, who with 17 others of the part) have i,,vt their fight to escape Impris onment ami tinev was aeclared t4a by Frank onu rford. who was Bpeclal prosecutor of tin ii', to be under way. CHICAGO, Nov. 16 (By the As-I soclated Press.) The two-year fight of William Bross Lloyd, wealthy com-i com-i munlst, to escape a five-year peniten- I tlarv sentence for violation of th lib-nols lib-nols espionage a-t 'known us the i "Overthrow" law, end. d nt midnight J when,, according to word reaching 1 here. Chief Justice Thompson of the Illinois supremo court announced h ' would den Lloyd's motion to stay the ! sentence until December 5. Lloyd and seventeen other members of thq COmmuiilSt party were convicted convict-ed in Chicago In August. 1920. They were accused of advocating overthrow of the government. Their fight to escape sentence wa made on the grounds that the Illinois 'overthrow'' not adopted during ti war. usurped authority vested in the federal government alone. The United States supreme court r-l r-l fused several days ago CO hear tiie. Lloyd case Pending the defense motion mo-tion before that couit, Lloyd's atto -ueys obtained the stay of sentence from the slate court until today. AC I is A'iTU'KFJ) In his arguments o.i iln- case. VV. S. Forrest, chief of the defense counsel attacked the "overthrow" act solely o i j technicalities, slating to the court that he had no sympathy Cor the sentiments senti-ments and policy of his clients . Chief Clerk Vail oi the state supreme su-preme court today was expected to issue is-sue he necessary papers for Lloyd's Imprisonment, in addition to prison sentences most oi cue aeiemianis were fined various amounts. Lloyd's fine i was U00. William Bross Lloyd, millionaire Communlst-laborlte, of Wlnnottka, a ', north shore suburb, Into riled a fortune j from his father, the late Henry L) I Lloyd, Boston philanthropist ills inherited in-herited wealth was greatly augmented in recent years while he wan a stock- 1 holder in one of Chicago's daily news- j papers. i.lo.d has been known as a radical for years. He waa arrested during I the war by Chlcugo poll. lor displaying display-ing the red flag above in.- America flag on his automobile. He tleclaredl the red iiaK uj bis Hjk and that he I flew the stars aud strips as a coui-j tesy to the Am. rum government. 1 OB o.iMi Slbl PARTI With his wife. Madge Bird, he took an active part in tne affairs ci the left wing Socialists during the war. and when the extreme left bolted irom tne Socialist party after issuing the radl-cul radl-cul manlresto of July 1. 19X9, Lloyd and his friends formed the Communist-labor party, which affiliated with the Third Internationale of MOSCOW. MOS-COW. Lloyd was sergeant-at-arms of the coin m unlst party He was a close rrlend el' William D. "Big Bill" Mas-wood, Mas-wood, former I W. W. leader, u Do Ibd to Russia last year to escape a 80-year prison sentence. It was Lloyd who furnished 110.000 bonds for Haywood wh. n he appealed from his conviction by Judge Kene-Bhaw Kene-Bhaw Mountain Landls and It wa ! Lloyd who put UP another ?10 000 When Ilavwood was caught in (he January. Jan-uary. i y l o. ioundup, when Lloyd wai also rested and eon IcteO Hi losl oni of these $10,000 bonds vshen Haywood Hay-wood fled Lloyd's radical associates Included John Reed Harvard graduate, maga- .tne writer, author anJ rirsl Bolshevik envoj to the I olted States, who died or typhus In Moscow and was burled lunder t lie Kremlin walls. ' Soveral of those who were convicted With him are wanted In Michigan Including In-cluding Max Be.dacht of Cleveland and Ban Francisco, who was fined Among those convicted in the Communist-labor case was Bedacht. who a.is lined $1000. |
