Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-01-08
CASE DEEPENS IN
DYNAMITE PLOT
Detectives Now Accuse Three Men
Of Attempted Murder.
TRACING BOMB EXPLOSION
Detectives Say They Will Prove There
Was Plot to Blow Up Mount Glare
Shops and the Gay Street Bridge
Attorney for the Defense Says He
viii Free Alleged Dynamiters.

AIuOFney TOT lne OeIenSe says he
Will Free Alleged Dynamiters.
Baltimore. Md, January 5.-Charg-
ed attempting to murder Henry
Wurms, 731 West German street, John
NJ. Kavancugh. Henry D. Madden and
John w. NJ. Kenney, striking machin-
lists of the Mount Glare shops of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
wer arraigned before Justice Grammar,
at the Central Police Station, yester-
day afternoon and held in $4,000 bail
for court.
Madden and Kenney were also IRE.
sented by the grand jury en- the
charge of conspiring to dynamite the
Gay street bridge, the Mount Clare
shops and the Riverside roundhouse
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company.
At the police station Kavanaugh, on
the advice OF the attorney for the men
declined to make a statement. Mad
den stated that he inveigled Wurns
from his home on December 4 on the
pretense that he was wanted at the
Mount Clare shops by the foreman.
Wurms, not suspecting anything
wrong. said Madden left, and as he
was walking up Hollins street, near
Birkley, near the tall wall of the WI
mans property. was struck on the head
with brick by Kenncy and Kava
naugn
1t is alleged that plot had been
made by Kavanaugh and William II
Zimmerman, two striking machinists,
to do up Wurms, and the assault
followed
Madden was presented separately
on the charge of conspiring to blow up
the bridge, and his name will be add
ed to the indictment to be found
against Walter H. Ames, Charles W.
Gruber. Hamilton W. Lightner, VIII
liam S. Shipley and William II. Zim-
norman, who were presented on the
same charge Monday. Two other pre-
sentiments were also found against all
six of those named, one being for con-
other for ccnspiring to blow up the
Mount Clare shops.
Kenney and Zimmerman were also
presented jointly in two other cases.
one being for attempting to blow up
the bridge and the other for attempt
ing to blow up the roundhouse.
The bail of Ames. who is regarded
as a ringleader. was fixed at $500 on
each presentment aad the bail of each
of the others at $4,000 in each case.
Assistant States Attorney Latane,
who has charge of the cases and who
win draw the indictments, said the
men will also be indicted on the
charge of assaulting men employed BY
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany as strikehreakers and that others
will be included in the charges.
Captain of Detectives Pumphrev,
with Detectives Atkinson, Vahle. Arm
strong and Lancaster, is weaving a
net of evidence against the men which
they say they believe proves concluse-
ly that they were in conspiracy TO
blow up the Mount Glare shops, the
Gay street bridge of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad and other places.
Detective Atkinson yesterday found
an order in the office of H. H. Meyer
& Co., on North Howard street, of %
pounds of dynamite and a number of
feet of fuse. which, he says, had been
ordered by Madden. The record Of
the order is on the firms file.
The detectives say they are also OBJ.
tanning much evidence against Walter
Ames. who. It Is declared, has invest
ed about $4,000 with a stock broker
in New York. This money, according
TO the police, was originally intended
TO be utilized by Ames to take care OF
the striking machinists, it having
been given him for that purpose.
Ames is seventh vice-president Of
the International Association of Ma
and he is alleged to have been
the chief instigator of the dynamite
plot directed against the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad combining this with an
alleged system of grating from mem
bers Of his organization and from 9TH
er sources. This is the substance OF
a statement made by Captain Pun
phrey and Detective Ogline, chief of
the B. & o. detective force.
Mr. Robert Z. Lee, attorney for the
alleged dynamiters, said last night
that he expected an acquittal when
the cases comes to trial.
THE defence has a few things up |
It's sleeve and we expect an acquit- |
tal," he said. II will not say now what
We have that leads to believe that.
but we intend to try our case in court
and not In the neMsnaners before the 4