Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-14

CHICAGO, July 1.-THE case against the
members of the brotherhood OF engineers
md firemen, accused of completely IN the
huge dynamite plot against the Chicago,
darlington & Quincy road was formally
presented in court yesterday. The state
ment was made by United States District
Attorney Ewing Immediately upon the
arraignment of six OF the accused, Chief
bauereisn and his comrades. Godding, VIII
son. Bowles, Broderick and Smith.
District Attorney Ewing spoke asfollows:
.sMav it please the court, desire to say, in
presenting the statement of what l expect
10 prove, that think it will appear from
the evidence that on or about May ~ last,
At the town of Eola, four or five miles from
Aurora. there was q dynamite cartride
placed upon the track of the Chicago, Bur
tington & Quincy road and exploded. The
evidence will show that few days prior
TO the explosion at Eola, Bowles one OF the
accused, went into room of Chairman Hoge,
of the brotherhood, at the latter's rooms in
the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, and
showed him number OF dynamite cart
ridges, and that the talk there was about the
use of these cartridges,
"A few days afterward this explosion at
Eola took place II will appear further
that some three or four days before that er-
plosion, and after the conversation between
Bowles and Hoge, Bowles met Smith lone
of the defendants) and talked with him
about the use of dynamite. and told him
how IL could be used; told him something
of il, explosive power and invited him
then to go with him and they would hx
some. The evidence will further show that
on the night Of the 18th day OF May last
somewhere about 9 O'Clock, bowies pro-
cured q buggy and a horse, and with smith
drove down to this town OF Eola- On the
way down Bowles showed Smith the
dynamite cartridges found in the possession
OF these parties. They drove to this little
town, drove fifty or sixty yards from the
railroad, when Bowles got out OF the buggy,
went over to the track and put the cartridge
on the rail, coming back and reporting
that he had done 50; that they drove back
70 Aurora and Just as they were nearing
the town, the explosion took place and
part of that engine was wrecked A DAY or
two later, Bauereisn met smith on the
street and said that Bowles lett Q package
for him at Beck's Hotel. Smith went to
the room of the hotel, as directed oy
Bauereisn and found cartridge and caps.
A few days after that, Bauereisn met Smith
ON the street again and asked him il he had
set of any of that stuff yet. This was on
the 4th day of June, the day of the brother
hood picnic. Smith told him he had not,
and Bauereisn replied that that would be
pretty good night TO do it
ssSmith got the cartridge and went down
to South Aurora and put the cartridge on
the track of the Chicago, Burlington q
Quincy, The next day after he did 1t he
met defendant Bauereisn and Bauereisn
asked him if he had let off any OF that stuff.
He told him that he had and Bauereisn
told him he thought 50, because h9 9heard
a. the evidence Will
show that on that night there was no eI-
plosion at that place. We pass now from
that time TO a couple of weeks later, be-
tween the 14th of June and lst OF July.
Bowles was away, and there was cores
pondence between him and Bauereisn and
some Others concerning his whereabouts
and what he was doing That correspond
ence, in the handwriting OF Bauereisn,
showed that Bowles was doing some bus,-
ness that was very secret; that he must De
careful that no one is watching him, that
if he believes the man he suspects is really
following him, to shoot the - and
then telling him not to buy any more OF
the stuff for obvious reasons"
The district attorney further stated that
July S, Godding gave Smith letter to his
wife, and that on presenting II she gave
Smith package containing cartridges, fuse
and CAPS. Smith put another paper around
the bundle and delivered it to the Brother
hood Hall at Aurora. At the hall there he
met Broderick, Bowles and Bauereisn and
said to one of them, That package is out
in the ante-room, The evidence will show
that q very little while after that Broderick,
Bowles, Bauereisn and Wilson all went out
of the hall together; that Broderick had
this package under his arm, and they went
dswn to the train together, coming to Chi
cago, and the three leaving Bauereisn took
the train to come here and carried that
package on to the train. and were arrested
on the trsin. and when that package was
examined it was found to contain four half
pound dynamite cartridges, and in Broder-
ick's possession were number of these full
mitigating caps that can be used for no
other purposes that / know of on esrth,
but to explode that internal stuff.
]. J. Kelly secretary to Chairman Hoge,
was placed on the stand and told how
Bowles had brought dynamite to Hoge's
room in the Grand Pacific Hotel. The
package was opened in the presence Of