Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-14
The Story of the Plot.
MT. Ewing Tells About the
 Alleged Conspiracy.
THE DEFENDANTS DUMFOUNDED.

Damaging Testimony Against the Men
 Who Are Charged with Having Planned
 to Destroy the Burlington Roads Prop
 erty-A Wonderful Chain of Evidence.
 CHICAGO, July 14-The managers of the
 Burlington made public yesterday their en-
 tire case against the alleged dynamiters. It
 was most extraordinary showing. Old
 lawyers who listened to it declared that they
 never heard such a we'll connected chain of
 evidence outlined The proceedings were
 against Thomas Frederick, J. A. Bauer
 reisen, J. O. Bowles Alexander Smith,
 George Gooding and J. O. Wilson. They
 were arrested under the United States law
 forbidding the carrying of dynamite on ral
 road trains upon which passengers are being transported from one state to another.
 Chairmen Hoge and Murphy, who were
 arrested under the state conspiracy law,
 were not included in this category. They
 will be examined to-day before justice of
 the peace. The proceedings yesterday were before United Sta es Commissioner Hoyne to determine whether the six prisoners should
 be held for trial in the United States court. When MT. Ewing got up there was perfect silence in the court room. He was about to tell the long promised story of the dynamite
 plot.
 "On or about the 18th of May" he began
 impressively, ''at the town of Eola, four or
 five miles from Aurora, a dynamite cart ridge was placed on the track of the Chicago,
 Burlington and Quincy railroad and ex- ploded by train passing over it. The force of the explosion was enough to break the fange from the engines driving wheel and
 seriously wreck it. June 14 another dyna.
 mite cartridge was exploded on the Burling ton track at South Aurora and another en- zine injured. plot existed to blow up
 more engines and more property of the com pany, but it was frustrated before it could be carried out. The man who was the chief
 agent ill the plot and in causing the two ex- plosons was the defendant, J. o. Bowles. ''Sonle days before the explosion at Eola he went to the room of $. E. Hoge, chairman
 of the grievance committee of the Burlington
 engineers, and who was then at the Grand Pacific hotel, ill Chicago, and showed him a
 number of dynamite cartridges. They dis cussed the best way of using the cartridges to in Jure the company's property. A few l days after this conversation Bowles met the l defendant Smith at Aurora, and talked with | him also about using dynamite to blow up the company's property; told him how it | could be used, how much damage it could do and invited him to go out into the country | and see 1t tested.
 tAU Ou IES ulSuU Ol May SJ | Bowies got buggy at Aurora, and took Smith with him to Eola. On the way Bowles | exhibited dynamite cartridges exactly like those that were found upon the prisoners 1 when they were arrested on the railroad train. He opened the end of the cartridge, l inserted fumigating cap, such as is used for l exploding cartridges, and attached to the cap ] piece of fuse and explained the whole mat | ter. They drove down to this little town, | crossed the track, and came back again over
 the track; drove fifty or sixty yards from the track Bowles got out of the buggy, and put | the cartridge on the railway and reported l that he had done so when he came back l They drove back to Aurora, and just as they were entering the town the explosion took l place, and part of that engine was wrecked l "As they were going homo Bowles told l Smith that he was going over into Indiana
 to get some more dynamite He would send 1 him some, and he must put it on the Burling 1 ton track. Bowles sent the dynamite through 1 the defendant Bauereisen. June 14 Smitf
 took the dynamite and, by Bauereisen's ad | vice, put it on the track at South Aurora and
 caused the second explosion. Between June 1 14 and July 1 Bowles was in Indiana, anC | much correspondence passed between hin l Bauereisen. Part of that correspondence
 will be exhihited. It is in the handwriting o 1 Bauereisen, and shows that Bowles was doing l some business of a very secret nature and re 1 quired great care. One letter says that ii
 he thought the man was following him tc
 shoot the -,' and then told him to not buy I any more stuff at present, for obvious l reasons
 "Wilson, Broderick and Gocding, wht
 were Brotherhood mon in Aurora, come into
 the story now. July Smith met these mer
 in Aurora and talked with them about using ! itao fho R,,r1 TA
 out that Gooding had been storing the dyna
 mite in his house. Some use of the stuff wa
 to be made in Chicago. Gooding took Smitl
 to his house, and from a closet brought ou
 four cartridges, such as were captured witl
 the prisoners on the train. Smith took tht
 cartridges to the hall of the Brotherhood, ane
 in the anteroom delivered them to Bowles
 Wilson, Broderick and Bauereisen They al
 went down to the train together Smith car
 rying the dynamite under his arm At tn
 train he gave it to Bowles. Frederick, Will
 son and Bowles took the train to Chicago ant
 were arrested upon it with this very dyna
 mite in their possession
 'Yesterday one of these cartridges was ex | ploded to test it. It blew quarter-inch irol E pipe to pieces, dug hole foot deep in th ! earth and blew fragments a distance o eighty -one feet, showing that the explosiv l was of the highest power. Every one of thes statements will be proved by abundant testi mony."
 5 During the delivery of the remarkable ar f raignment the prisoners sat pale and silent
 Apparently they had expected no such delug , as this Their attorneys made no effort t. , l conceal their amaZement.
 tt Witnesses were called at once. A dynamit 3 manufacturers agent swore to the compost , tion of the cartridges and their uses, and . conductor swore to the facts aboH6 the car 5 rying of passengers from one state to another
 John J. Kelly, Chairman Hoges secretary B swore that while he was serving Hog 3 Bowles came in frequently and talked wit s the chairman about using dynamite agains } the railroad. He saw packages of dynamite l or what Bowles said was dynamite, in Hoge s room. Bowles explained how the cartridge = were to be fastened to the railroad trac with sweet lead, and exploded by means c f caps Bowles also told Hoge of his intention k to go out on some branch line of the Burlile D ton-Kelly did not know which one-an n put some cartridges on the track.
 v As soon as MT. Ewing had elicited thi . story Attorney Donahue swooped down upo y the witness with a raking cross examination |. The young man stuck resolutely to the mai