I.W.W. INCENDIARIES CONVICTED.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2945, 4 December 1916, Page 8

I.W.W. INCENDIARIES CONVICTED.

* AFTER TEN DAYS' TRIAL SENTENCES FROM FIVE TO FIFTEEN YEARS. By Telesraph-Press Association-Copyrlciit (Rec. December 2, 7.50 p.m.) Sydney, December- 2. Twelve members of the I.W.W. charged with conspiracy in connection with the city fires were found guilty, after a trial lasting ten days. [The following are the names of the prisoners:— Charles Reeve (30), native of England. Thomas Glynn (35), Ireland. Peter Larkin (45),' Ireland. John Hamilton (42), Victoria. Bernard Besant (25), England. Donald M'Phereon. (29), Scotland. William Teen (30), Tasmania. William Beatty (30), England. Morris Joseph Fagin (40), Russia. Donald Grant (27), Scotland. Thomas Moore (34), New Zealand. John Benjamin King (46), Canada.! Glynn, Hamilton, M'Pherson, Beatty, Fagin. Grant, and Teen were each sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. Larkin, Reeve. Besant, and Moore received ten years' each. King received a sentence of five years. SEVERE REMARKS FROM THE BENCH. (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. December 3, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, December 3. Glynn, Hamilton, M'Pherson, Beatty, Fagin, Grant, and Teen were found guilty on all three counts —conspiracy to lire buildings, procure the releaso of Barker, and excite sedition; Moore, Larkin, Reeve, and Besant on the first two counts,, and King on the third count. Each man, from the dock, protested his innocence. Mr. Justice Pring, in passing the sentences, denounced the I.W.W. as an association of criminals of. the worst type, and ajjotbed of crime. He hoped that strong and drastic measures would be adopted to uproot this association, and suggested that tho Domain meetings, attended by the members of the association, be peremptorily stopped, as they were held for the purpose of recruiting young and ignorant men into tho ranks of the association. He hoped that the authorities would use thenbest endeavours to prevent pernicious I.W.W. literature from entering tho country. King's sentence will commence at the end of the sentence he is now serving for forging bank notes.