Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-18
pYNAM,TERs on TRIAL.

DYNAMlTERs ON TRIAL.
The Alleged Conspirators Against the
Burlington Road Hauled Over tho Goals
Damaging Evidence Against Thorn.
r. CHICAGO, July 1.-The preliminary ex-
animation Of the men who are under arrest
ON the charge Of having conspired to de-
stroy the property of the Chicago, Burline-
ton Il Quincy railroad with dynamite. Is
in" progress before United rs States
Commissioner Hoyne, In this city.
The principals u are j. O. Wilson,
Thomas Broderick and John Bowles. In
custody and closely watched are Alexander.
Smith (who Is said to have ''squealed ~.
J. II. Baureisen and George Cooling. They
are charged with violating section 1858
OF the revised statutes of the United
States. The statute itself is inoffensiye
enough, as it simply provides for imposing
q fine upon persons who shall carry ex-
plosives upon any vehicle which runs be-
tween States. This, however, was
simply the pretext upon which the
men were arrested. The real OBJ
ject of the Burlington, whose en-
ployes the prisoners had previously
been, and the United States, was to show
that dynamite plot existed among the
brotherhood of engineers and firemen,
which, If carried out, would entail the de-
struction OF vast amount Of property and
the probable loss Of life.
The proceedings began at II o'clock a.
m. District.Attorney Ewing outlined the
prosecution in his opening address, in
which he said he thought it would appear
from the evidence that on the Goth of Nav q
dynamite cartridge was exploded by the
passage of a train near Aurora; another at
South Aurora on the 18th of June. The first
explosion broke the tlange of a wheel.
The evidence, he said, would show that
few days before the explosion Bowles went
into Hoge's room and showed him dyna-
mite cartridges and talked with him about
the use of explosives. After that Bowles
met Smith and told him how dyna-
mite could be used. On the 29th of
May Bowles showed Smith a cartridge
similar to those found is possession of the
defendants. Mr.. Ewing then said that
Smith and Bowles drove few miles outof
Aurora, and that the latter alighted from
the buggy and put the cartridge on the
track, and that it exploded just be-
fore they got back to town. A few days
afterward Bowles told Smith that he was
gong to get more cartridges and would
leave some Illuminating caps with him.
Bauereisen afterward told Smith that
Bowles had left package for him,
which Smith obtained. June IA Bauer
eisen asked Smith If he had set
of any of the cartridges. mo, not yet,"
was the response. This would be good
night to do it," replied Bauereisen. That
night Smith set off one Of the cartridges at
South Aurora and told Bauereisen that he
had done so.
About July S, it was stated the evidence
would show that Smith met Broderick and
was sent by him to Goding's house to OBJ
tain some dynamite cartridges and caps
Cooling gave him four cartridges, contain
ing about half a pound of dynamite Smith
took them to the brotherhood hall in
Aurora and delivered them. He met
at the hall Broderick, Bowles, and
Bauereisen, and told them that the pack
age was in the anteroom. The evidence,
it was said, would show that Broderick,
Bowles, Wilson and Bauereisen shortly
afterward left the hall and took the train
for Chicago. The three first-named were
arrested en- route, and dynamite cartridges
were found in their possession.
Samuel c.. Madden, agent of the Atlas
Dynamite Company, was placed on the
dynamite and Illuminating caps. John j.
Kelly, a locomotive engineer, was the next
witness. He said that in May he was Sec
rotary to Chairman Hoge, of the Locomo-
tive Engineers Grievance Committee. He
was asked if he had ever seen dynamite at
the headquarters of the committee at the
Grand Pacific Hotel in this city, He said:
There was package there said to contain
dynamite. Bowles was the man who brought
1t in and it was opened in the presence of
Hoge, Fowler, and myself Then Mr.. Bowles
took some caps from his pocket which he said
were used in exploding the dynamite. Bowles
had five or six cartridges, and spoke OF going
up on the Fulton branch of the road. He said
that he put it on the rail and kept it in place
by sheet lead'
At the afternoon examination Kelly told
the court that all the time Bowles visited
Hoge with the dynamite there was man
named Fowler present. He made
memorandum of the circumstance at
the time, because he knew it was
contrary to the rules of the brother
hood for any member to contemplate
measures of violence. He denied that he
had been promised his liberty or any thing
else for testifying in these cases, and he
did not think the prosecution of the con-
spiracy charge against him would be
dropped. He was in the custody of the
police voluntarily and because he deemed
it best to toll all he knew of the facts in
the two cases.
Thomas c. Lloyd, hardware dealer at
Noblesville, Ind, identified Bowles as the
man who had on three different occasions,
between the latter part of May and the
latter part of June, visited his store, each
time purchasing about five pounds Of dyna-
mite or Hercules powder, with caps
and fuse Lloyd's story was cor
roborated by Andrew E. Barnes, his clerk,
who said he had sold Bowles dynamite on
ut least two different occasions.
When Bowles visited Noblesville he was
in the habit Of stopping at the house of
man named Sapper, who lived a mile and
half from the town. Thomas Jester, who
also lived with Sapper, was called to the
stand and told Of Bowles' visits. He swore
that on one occasion Bowles boosted in his
presence that he was "going over to Cries.
ton, Ia, to raise little HI among the
boys"
Kirk Howe was the last Of the damaging
witnesses from Indiana. He is clerk ms
store at Westheld. He positively identi-