The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-14
A SERIOUS OUTLOOK
For the Alleged Brotherhood
Dynamiters.
THEIR EXAMINATION NOW ON
ney Expects to PrOve-Testi-
mony Taken-Etc.
Cornering the Dynamiters.

CHICAGO, July 1S.-A startling outline
of the case against the memers of the
Brotherhood of Engineers and Firemen
accused OF completely in the huge dy-
Mantle plot against the Q. road was
formally presented in court to-day.
The statement was made by United
States District Attorney Ewing imme-
diately upon the arraignmsnt of six Of
the accused, Chief Bauereisn and his
comrades, Godin, Wilson, Bowles,
Broberick and Smith. The presentment
caused a great sensation among the
crowd of railroad men, lawyers and re-
porters that filed every inch of room
in the court The statement of the dis
trict attorney was apparently based
on a confession by one of the
six, Alex Smith. The latter
sat apart from tho other de-
PENDANTS, and Notwithstanding the
efforts of his brother, who was present
in court. dogedly declined to be repre-
scented by the Brotherhood attorneys,
or have anything to do with them.
After Commissioner Hayne had re-
fused the defendants request for
separate examination for each of them,
LuS ulSsIlCG dIlOluCy olOSO anu III
matter of fact way without any at
tempt at defamation, recited the
facts that he proposed to prove.
He said that his evidence would show
that the dynamite cartridge which was
placed on the Burlington tracks at Eola,
Ills, May 2gth, was put there by
Bowles and Smith, A few days prior
to this explosion BoWles went into
Chairman Hoge's room at the Grand
Pacific and showed him a num-
Der of the cartridges and they
talked together regarding the Tuse
A day or two later Balereisen
told Smith that Bowles bad left pack
age for him ii: Aurora. Smith got the
package aud it contained dynamite
cartridges, and by Bauereisn's advice,
he exploded these on the Burlington
tracks on June 18th, On July 9th, by
direction of the defendants, Smith took
a letter from GoidiDg to the latter's
wife, who gave him a package con-
tanning dynamite cartridges. This
Smith took to the Brotherhood
Hail. al Aurora, where he met
Broderick, BOwles and BauereIsn snd
told them he had left the dynamite in
the ante-room. BrCderick put the
package under his arm and all left the
hall together and took the train to
Chicago, excepting Bauereisn. On their
way they were arrested. The package
contained four half-pound dynamite
cartridges.
The cartridges alleged to have been
taken from the prisoners were brought
into court. Samuel G. Madden, agent
for the Atlas Dynamite Company, was
put upon the stand aud testified that
the cartridges contained 30 per cent. of
nitro glycerine. The Illuminating caps
found on BroderiCk were shown to the
witness and were declared to be the
kind to explode dynamite.
Edward Poole, conductor of the train
on which BoWles, Broderlck and Wilson
were arrested, testified that the train
was carrying Interstate passengers. |
Poole's cross eXaminati0n was con-
Quoted with view TO showing that the |
car in which the prisoners were aFreS ted |
had been attached to the train at
Quincy ana that it carried no pas
seDgers from points outside of Illinois !
and did not come within these statutes. |
John D. Kelly, secretary to Chair
man Hoge, of the grievance committee, |
testified that he knew that defendant |
BowIes saw him in the room with the |
strikers in the Grand Pacific Hotel; that |
BoWles came to the strikers
room at the hotel with a package said |
to be dynamite and opened the package
in presence of Hoge and man named |
Tower. 1t was marked "Hercules"
with red stamp. Bowles had the caps
in his pockets. They were like those
taken from Broderick. BowIes spoke
of working it" on the Fulton branch.
He told the witness he had laid the
cartridge on the track, using a sheet of
lead to keep it on the rail and the caps
for exploding it. He had four cart
ridges and half dozen caps. Kelly's
cross examination developed that be
was % years old, American born and
had been a fireman and engi-
neer and for several years worked
for the Burlington road. He was sec
rotary for HCge, and said he had a
showing the dates re-
garding this and other subjects, if it
had not been stolen since his arrest, as
several other papers had been, Here
Is was disclosed that some one had raid
ed Kelly's room while he was locked
up down town, and it was charged the
defense now had the documents taken
from his rooms. The witness said that
be had made memorandum of
BowIes' talk about the dynamite at the
Time, because the DTOGuGTQOOu ulu LOU
allow acts of violence. He did not
report it to the police because of his re-
lations to the Brotherhood. He said
since mis- arrest he had conferred with
Inspec or Bonfeld, Attorney Collier
and Mr.. Stone, but was not testifying
under promise OF immunity and that
be expected to be put GA trial for con-
spiracy.
Thomas G. Lloyd testified that he
lived at Mobl1sville, Indiana, and dealt
in hardware; had seen Bowles in his
sore about June 1st, and sold him five
pounds Of dynamite, putup il rolls. the
brands were known as THE
Hercules POWDER" and he identi-
fled that in court ss the
s4rne brand; he sold him more
two weeks later, and again on
June 23d. Eliminating caps and fuses
we're bought with each lot and packed
carefully by special directions. Bowles
told him on the first occasion that he
WAS stopping with Mr.. Sapper, in the
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