St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-07
CHIEF OF THE DYNAMITARDs.
Informer Bowles Proceeds to
Swear Bauereisen Into Prison.


GENEVA, ILL.,, Dec. 6.-In the trial of
John III. Bauereisen, chief of the al
legged Burlington dynamiter conspir-
ators, the jury panel was completed to-
day. John Alexander Bowles, who, it
is said, was conspiratOr and one of the
squealers, was put on the stand as the
first and most important witness. BOWles
testified that he went to work as an ell
gineer for the Burlington, March %.
1883, and was persuaded to quit by his
brother April 4. He joined the Broth
erhood, and was employed by Bauereisen
to buy dynamite and place it on the
tracks, and also to buy vitriOl and am
monia to put in the water-tanks and
dose engines.
The witness told how, two weeks
after his initiation as brotherhood
man, he met BauereiSen at Aurora, and
how the latter told HIM that dynamite
could now be used with good effect,
giving him $3.50 to buy the stuff.
Bowles said he could not purchase it in
Chicago in small quantities, but sue
ceeded in doing so at Noblesvilie, Ind,
where he obtained these sticks. Re
Doge, Kelly and the other leading
strikers at the grievance committee
room at the Grand Pacific. Bauereisen
said the witness gave him $40, and told
him to go to Galesburg with the
"goods." Bowles then related how
cordially he was received by George A.
Clark there, to whom BauereiSen had
written a letter
EXPLAINING THE PLOT.
They drove to the Burlington tracks
but were afraid to use the explosives.
He and Clark buried the dynamite near
the water woods, and Bowles returned
Aurora to have another talk with Bau-
ereisen. BauereiSen furnished more
money and trip was taken by witness
to Noblesville and Westfeld, Ind. when
more dynamite, besides Illuminating
caps and fuse, were purchased, MAY
16'' continued Bowles, ''Bauereisen,
gave me two silver dollars to hire rig
and visit the 'Q' tracks. took Alex
Smith with me, and drove to the rail-
where I placed stick of dynamite with
Illuminating cap on the track. We
drove back to Aurora and heard the eX-
plosion a mile away. The next morn
ing Bauereisen said it was a good job
and that the flange had been blown off
the leading truck Wheel" The witness
next described how he and BauereiSen
and Smith experiemented with slow
fuse in the consultation room of the
division hall at Aurora. After these
experiments, Bauereisen wanted Smith
and Bowles to put dynamite under a
''scab - boarding house known as the
Council house and blow it to atoms.
They refused, saying it would be mnr-
der. Taking third trip to Noblesville
he
BOUGHT MORE DYNAMITE.
which he took to Clark at Galesburg.
Making another trip to Indiana, he told
how Bauereisen sent him check for
SIS and letter, which he had destroyed,
but the contents of which were to the
effect to hurry up and get to Creston
Qowa); take plenty of goods with you;
| have written Broderick to meet you;
if you come this way (Aurora) j. j. Kelly
and | would like to buy some goods
from you." Another letter giving ad-
vice that Bowles, concerning Pinkerton
detectiues, who, it was supposed, were
shadowing him, was introduced. In
that the advice was to shoot the sleuth
hounds. After detailing the arrest of
Broderick and himself, and before the
witness had concluded, Judge Wilson
:: Il sd 60, Il