. The Burlington strike: its motives and methods, including the causes of the strike, remote and direct, and the relations to it, of the organizations of Locomotive engineers, Locomotive firemen, Switchmen's M. A. A., and action taken by order Brotherhood R. R. brakemen, order Railway conductors, and Knights of labor. The great dynamite conspiracy; ending with a sketch by C. H. Frisbie: forty-seven years on a locomotive .. . nly the influenceof an individual and his personal friends and well wisherson the side of the defense, it was an unequal contest pit-ted against a prosecution representing
. The Burlington strike: its motives and methods, including the causes of the strike, remote and direct, and the relations to it, of the organizations of Locomotive engineers, Locomotive firemen, Switchmen's M. A. A., and action taken by order Brotherhood R. R. brakemen, order Railway conductors, and Knights of labor. The great dynamite conspiracy; ending with a sketch by C. H. Frisbie: forty-seven years on a locomotive .. . nly the influenceof an individual and his personal friends and well wisherson the side of the defense, it was an unequal contest pit-ted against a prosecution representing the great Bur-lington corporation, wanting to break the power of theBrotherhood, and thePinkerton agency unscrupulous inpractice, and whose future in such work for corpora-tions depended upon conviction. The eloquent Mr. Mills in closing his address said: Gentlemen of the Jury:—You will be govern-ed by the truthful testimony you have heard and theobligations of your oath. You will therefore, I knowcertainly do, as I have the assurance and hope thatyou will, give to this defendant the justice he de-mands and the vindication which is his right. The audience, which had been held spellbound,burst into loud cheering, but were sternly called to or-der by the judge, who expressed his disapproval of suchdemonstration. The Chicago Heraldof Dec. 22, illus-trates in part this intelligent jury who were qualified DYNAMITE. 451. to serve becausethey had formedno opinion upona subject upper-most in the mindsof the whole com-munity. After fif-teen hours theyrendered a verdictthat astonishedthose who werebest a c qua in tedwith J. A. Bauerei-sen, his characterand the surround-ing , Brod-Bauereisen was sentencedfor two years, Broderick for one year, Goding a lineof $500, which was reduced to $100. The bene-fit of a doubt could not have been given, andwhile those, who were not, in the minds of the people,proven guilty, were made to suffer a penalty, thosewho confessed t
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