Show BIG CULL BILL LOSES rehearing was denied ivy by the clr cir cult call court ot of appeals in chicago to william IH din bill haywood Haywoo ibay wood a leader of the industrial workers of the world and ninety three code fondants fond fend ants convicted timateo tima rigo aeo for violation ot of the ahe espionage ad act and conspiracy to obstruct tive tic draft af oj of the rehearing attorneys clarence S darrow and otto christensen amhed ait kedI s stay of sena sentence to give thorn time to present the case before tbt supreme court the sentenced range from ten days to twenty years the men were convicted in juda landis landsb court in ili algut 1918 and immediately a legal battlo was waa eato prevent abe carrying out of tho the sentences odthe ninety seven convicted all but three joined in the effort to save themselves front paison an appeal vaa wa taken on the ground that documents seize alicd dby by the government were erroneously ad muad in evidence GOV government attorneys at the trial undertook to show the character of the 1 I NY W W organization and that lint it had a fully developed program that was applied when the war came it also aiso was claimed by the appellants that documents admitted lit in evidence were not shown to be theirs haywood former general secre tary treasurer ot of the organization was loolie upon as the leakier leader among the be it ARS aas shown it RL al tile the trial rial that the industrial of the world maintained ep arate headquarters in fit differ crit t cities for various industrial unions the defendants fend lend ants were arrested in washington california arizona biah pennsylvania syl vanta kansas michigan IiChi gan sota sola illinois new york and oilier states stales haywood and thirty alx of those t convicted ted have been out on oil ball bail froni from ho be federal penitentiary at leavenworth I caven karl kail ile ho and fourteen others acre given twenty year sentences more lore than hail thirty reg received elved ten leu year and about the sanio sanie nuni num er cr five beir tv elro here sentenced to a year and a day ane for three years one tor for sixteen years and two tor for ton ten days in ili addition ploll to tile the prison sentences fines ran eliis front from to 1 vero imposed about six weeks IRO ago the bourt upheld juilda Judg eLandis decision and the defendants im mediately immediately filed ka 13 motion in fit the circuit court of appeals for a rehearing which was denied by this notion action |