, 1888-07-14
THE DYNAMITE PLOT.
Six of the Accused Brother
hood Men in Court.
Damaging Statements Made by
Secretary Kelly.
Several Witnesses Examined
! For the Prosecution.

the brotherhood OF Engineers and Fire
men accused of completely in the huge
dynamite plot against the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy road was formally pre-
scented In court to-day. A statement was
made by United States District Attorney
Ewing Immediately upon the arraign-
ments of six of the accused-Chief Bauer
elsn and his comrades, Cooling, Wilson.
Bowles, Broderick and Smith. The pre-
sentiment caused a great sensation among
the crowd of railroad mep, lawyers and
reporters that filed every inch of room in
court. The statement of the district at
confession by one of the six-Alex Smith.
The latter sat apart from the other de.
PENDANTS, and Notwithstanding the efforts
of his brother who was present in court,
declined to be represented by the brother
hood attorneys or have anything to do
with them.
After Commissioner Hoyne had re-
fused the defendants request for a sepa-
ate examination for each OF them, the
district attorney arose and in a matter of
fact way without any attempt at declama-
ton 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,
ILL.,, May 90, was put there by Bowles
and Smith. A few days prior to this ex-
ploslon Bowles went into Chairman Hoge's
room at the Grand Pacific and showed
him a number of the cartridges, and they
talked together regarding their use. A
day or two later Bauereisn told Smith
that Bowels had left a package for him at
a certain hotel in Aurora, Smith got the
package and it contained dynamite car
tridges, and by Bauereisn's advice he ex-
ploded these on the Burlington tracks
June IA. July 5, by direction of defend
ants, Smith took a letter from Cooling
to the %latter's wife, who gave him a pack
age containing dynamite cartridges.
These Smith took to the brotherhood
hall at Aurora, where he met Broderick,
Bowles and Bauereisn, and told them that
he had left the dynamite in the ante
room. Broderick put the package under
bis arm, and the men all left the hall
together and took the train to Chicago,
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 Q. Madden, agent for the At
Jas Dynamite company was put Upon the
stand and testified that the cartridges
contained 80 per cent of nitro-glycerine.
The Illuminating caps found on Broderick
were shown to witness and were declared
to be the kind to explode dynamite.
T. Edward Poole, conductor of the train
on which Bowles, Broderick and Wilson
were arrested, testified that the train was
carrying Interstate passengers. Poole's
cross-examlnatlOns were conducted with
the view to showing that the car in which
the prisoners were arrested had been at
tached to the train at Quincy and that it
carried no passengers from points outside
OF Illinois and did not come wilhin these
statutes.
Jno. d. Kelly, secretary to Chairman
Hoge of the grievance committee, testi-
fed that he knew the defendant Bowles;
saw him at the rooms of the strikers in
the Grand Pacific hotel; that Bowles came
to the strikers rooms at the hotel with
packages said to be dynamite and opened
a package in the presence of Hoge and a
man named Tower. 1t was marked
Hercules with a red stamp. Bowles
had caps in his pockets. They were like
those taken from Broderick. Bowles
spoke of working it, on the Fulton
DThUCu Vi luG " he lOlu WlllGSS ne
had laid a cartridge on the track, using a
sheet Of lead to Keep it on the rail and
caps for exploding it. He had four
cartridges and half a dozen caps.
kelly's cross-examination developed
that he was % years old, American born,
and had been fireman and engineer, and
for several years had worked on the Bur.
lington road. He was secretary for Hoge
and said he had a memorandum showing
the dates regarding this and other sub
jects, if it had not been stolen since his
arrest, as several other papers lad been.
Here it was disclosed that some one had
raided Kelly's room while he was locked
up down town. and it was charged that
the defense now had the documents taken
from his room.
Witness said hat he had made memo
randum of Bowles' talk about dynamite
at the time because the brotherhood did
not allow acts of violence. He did not
report it to the police because of his rela-
| tons to the brotherhood. He said that
since his arrest he had conferred with
INSPECTOR Bonfield, Attorney Collier, and
MIR. Stone, but was not testlfying under
promise of immunity and that he expect
ed to be put on trial for conspiracy.
Thos. O.. Lloyd testified that he lived at
Noblesville. Ind. and dealt in hardware.
Had seen Bowles in the store about June
l. Sold HIM five pounds of dynamite,
put up in rolls. The brands were known
as The Hercules Powder" and he iden-
tilted that in court as the same brand he
sold him more than two weeks later and
again on June %. Illuminating caps and
fuses were bought with each lot, aud
packed carefully by special directions.
Bowles told him on the first occasion
hat he was stopping with a Mr.. Sapper
in the neighborhood.
Andrew L. Barnes, clerk for Lloyd,
also identified Bowles, having seen him
in the store several times and sold him
dynamite. About 7 p. m, on June %,
Bowles got a package of dynamite put up
for him by Lloyd.
Thos. j. Ester of Noblesville, Ind, had
seen Bowles when the latter was stopping
at Tapper's. They talked about the strike
| and Rowles old him that he was going