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Show rd after and a proper guard be supplied. HANSEN'S TOJIE Six Night-Riders Will Hang and Two Will Go to Jail For 20 Years. Union City, Jan. 9. Judge Jones today to-day Imposed the death penalty on Garret Gar-ret Johnson, Tid Burton. Bob Ransom, Fred Pincon. Arthur Cloar and Sam i Applewhite, the night-riders who were found guilty of the murder of Captain Quentin Ranken, and sentenced Bud Morris and Bob Huffman, the two other oth-er defendants, to twenty years' imprisonment. im-prisonment. The attorneys for tho de-fense de-fense immediately gave notice of an appeal to the state supreme court. If this tribunal does not interfere, the first named, six men, will bo hanged on February 19. In applying to Jude Jones today for a new trial, the defense attacked the competency of Jurors McKlnney and Ahnke, asserting that they had expressed ex-pressed opinions as to the guilt of tho Ihreo defendants. After having heard the testimony of three witnesses Introduced In-troduced by the defense in their effort to prove that Juror McKinney hud expressed ex-pressed an opinion as to the guilt of the convicted men. the ttate proved by the members of the jury that he Insisted on mitigating circumstances being included in the verdict. The contentions in regard to Jurors Rosson and Ahnke were later with- i drawn and the motion for a new trial j was quickly overruled. I Judge Jones listened attentively to : the toftimony, and at the conclusion, j said the court vas firmly of the opin-J opin-J ion that all evidence introduced at the I trial was competent. Judge Jones j continued: "I said some time ago to the grand jury that It was a sad. sad Jay, when these men left their quiet homes; that their wives hud not taken them around the neck and pleaded with thern for God Almighty's sake to stop and not 1 and themselves together for such unholy un-holy acts, that the case is brl.-tllng ( with perjury, and the Jury has return-i return-i cd into this court a verdict again.s i Bud Morris and Bob Huffman of murder mur-der In the second degree which mu.t ! bland. I "The jury has also returned a ver- ! diet In the first degiee agnlnst six of the. defendants, and in view of the mnnner in which the life of Queutln Ranken was taken. I enn tee no rniti gating circumttances In their crime. It was not done in the heat of passion and has none of the elements of mill- j gating circumstances and that part of the verdict will be disregarded." j After a moment's breathless silence ' the court sal.l: j "Bud Morris, you will stand up. "It the opinion that you be incarcerated incar-cerated in the penitentiary for twenty years and bo deprived of your rights of franchise." j Hob Huffman next received the tamo Fenteace. Judge Jones, after a pause, continued: con-tinued: "Garrett Johns-on, you have lef.n triej on a charge of murder In tho ! first degree. A motion for a new trial 1 overruled by the court. It is considered, con-sidered, and the judgment of the court ; Is. that you will be remanded to jail ' until Friday, the nineteenth of February, Febru-ary, 1909. when you will, by the s),er-iff s),er-iff of this county, be hansel by thi neck until you are dead, and may God j have mercy on your eouI." j The sinie judgment wa pronounced ; ! on t ie remaining five defendants, coi- ' ' ted of p,r.st degree mur !er. FV-rlect filence pievalled In the' J court-room durlts the pronouncing of ; t the fcectencea. The de fendants, each I in turn, arr re ra'o and worn, and re-I re-I eel vol iho words of Ju lgir.es t. T1k- court dl-'cted the td.e -jcr ts s I t-ie defendants be ca.xfullv Io |