You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday July 16, 1915
Denver, Colorado - Lawson's Conviction to Be Appealed to State Supreme Court
From the Pennsylvania Reading Times of July 14th:
Edward P Costigan
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TO TAKE LAWSON CASE TO
SUPREME COURT
(BY SPECIAL LEASED WIRE)
DENVER, July 13.-Edward P. Costigan, of counsel for John R. Lawson, sentenced yesterday to life imprisonment for the murder of John Nimmo, said today an appeal to the State Supreme Court would be taken as soon as the necessary formalities could be completed.
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On July 12th, in Trinidad, Lawson was denied a new trial by Judge Hillyer who also refused to allow the labor leader to remain free on bond. John R. Lawson was then immediately escorted to the Las Animas County Jail by the Sheriff Kane.
One of deputy sheriffs guarding the many former strikers imprisoned there is none other than Walter Belk, the Baldwin-Felts gunthug who took part in the murder of Gerald Lippiatt, organizer for the U. M. W. of A.
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SOURCES
Reading Times
(Reading, Pennsylvania)
-July 14, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Out of the Depths:
the Story of John R. Lawson, a Labor Leader
-by Barron B. Beshoar
Colorado Labor Historical Committee
of the Denver Area Labor Federation, 1980
https://books.google.com/...
IMAGE
Edward P Costigan
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/...
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JOHN R. LAWSON IN JAIL
From Out of the Depths by Barron Beshoar:
John Lawson quickly settled into the routine of the riveted, boiler-plate jail. Even here, he found, there was work he could do. Little Zancanelli, often half delirious, alternately cried and stormed. Lawson found he could ease Zancanelli's mind. More than 50 other strike prisoners in the jail needed comfort and encouragement. Lawson talked to them in soothing hopeful tones each day as they came from their tiny cells for a brief period of exercise in the filthy bull pen.
Outwardly, Lawson was smiling and confident, buoying up the other prisoners with his own cheerfulness. Inwardly, he had little hope despite his great faith in ultimate justice and the abilities of Hawkins. Lawson had seen two of his friends, Fyler and Tikas, lying in the roadway where they had been shot down and he knew that he and his friends in the jail could expect no mercy or compassion.
The swaggering Linderfelt, with a deputy sheriff's commission in his pocket, was free to walk around in the bright Southern Colorado sunshine, the same sunshine that beat down upon the graves of his humble victims. Outside Lawson's cell each night, pacing up and down the corridor with a revolver in his holster was Belk, the Baldwin-Felts detective who had killed Gerald Lippiatt. He was a deputy sheriff and clothed with the majesty of the law....
Patience was necessary to save himself and his friends from going mad with futile, despairing rage...
[Paragraph breaks added.]
IMAGE
John Lawson with Olive and Fern
from Day Book, Last Edition, April 23, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
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Dig The Devil's Blood
WE NEVER FORGET
Gerald Lippiatt
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Dear Readers of Hellraisers,
This year for my vacation, Hellraisers will not be as scaled back as it was for the past two vacations. This happy change is due to my new & much faster computer and to the library of photos, songs, resources, etc, that I have built up over the past 2 and 1/2 years.
The big change that my readers will see, starting July 16th, will be the shorter length of the postings along with fewer links. I'm writing three Hellraisers per day right now and don't have the one or two hours extra that I usually take to find and put in the links.
When my readers find unfamiliar names, places, or events, please use the tags along with JayRaye (in diarist section of search feature). Or just leave a question for me in the comments and I will get back to you.
When I actually leave for Minnesota, I'll let everyone know. My access to computer will be limited while I'm away, probably about twice a week. But I will definitely be checking in.
Solidarity,
JayRaye
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