The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-06
WILSON |MP[|CATES
OFFICIAL Of union
Declares Business Agent Of
Structural Workers Promised
Reward for Dynamiting.
ALSO HIRED AS DETECTIVE
BY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Labor Leader Denies Emphati-
caIIy That He Had Any Part
in Conspiracy.


Fred Wilson IN tbe case of the State
against Fred Wilson and John Delaney.
charged with malicious mischief by
making an alleged attempt to blow up
the erecting machinery of the new Utah
hotel building on the morning OF De-
cember 20, when Wilson, after mo.
tion TO reopen the case, took the stand
in his own defense. The proceedings
took place in Judge Bowman S court
Saturday morning.
Wilson told of how Delaney came 10
him in the O. $, l.. yards in December
last and said that he had plan where
by both could make 500 each and pro
curc railroad tickets free of charge to
any point in the United states they
wished to go. Wilson said that he fol
lowed. Delaney to Eastman hall, where,
he said, they met John 5. MunseY, busl.
ness agent Of the structural iron work
ers, who outlined the plan for tho blow
ing mp of the plate underneath the
hosting machinery and who made the
offer to pay each of the men 500 IN
cash and to give them railroad tickets.
Wilson said that ne had told Delaney
and Munscy that he wanted time to
think over the matter, and that he had
gone later to Manager Jones of tho con
structIon company. who, upon hearing
the story of the plot, told Wilson that
he could 90 to work for the company
as a private detective. According TO
Wilson, he was TO furnish information
which would convict any one making
any attempt To harm the property of
the company For this he was 10 re-
ccivc $3.50 a day.
Arranging the Pay.
los al . A., h. AIar.
chants bank in this city with Jones
who had drawn a check for 500, which
he had indorsed and that later on a
cashier s check was made out for the
amount and deposited with the under
standing that it was not 10 be paid 10
Wilson by the bank officials until Jcnes
gave the word.
This part of Wilson s testimony was
in accord with that of the bank Off
ciaIs, who had testified that tho trans
action took place in the bank on De
| cember %. but his testimony was IN
conflict with that of Jones, who had
said that the transaction took place at
different time,
Wilson also testified that he had met
Jones IN the Buffalo saloon on the day
after the explosion; that be had told
Jones that Delaney had not been in bis
room on the night of the explosion, and
that he, Wilson, believed that Delaney
had had something 10 do with the Job
He then said that Jones had bought sew.
eral drinks and had offered to hand
ovor the 800 it Wilson would produce
evidence that would lead TO the arrest
of tho guilty parties.
He was positive that this part of the
transaction had taken place on tho day
after the explosion and that he had
then accompanied Jones TO the bank
where the check had been drawn up
What Delaney Said.
Wilson then said that he had next
day met Delaney in the room i'll the
Wabash rooming house on the night of
December % and that he had asked
Delaney where he had been the night
before. According To Wilson, Delaney
had answered, "a word to the wise is
sufficient and that Delaney had said
that he had had man with him who
had p "ycllow streak down his back
ward wide and that he had 10 put
gun against his ribs to mako him
go through with the Job.
Wilson denied that he had known
anything about the explosion until the
following day or that he had been near
the hotel structure on the night Of the
explosion or had ANYTHING TO do with
any dynamite, Judge Bowman con.
tinued the case until Monday.
Munsey Denies Charges.
John :. Muusey, business agent of the
structural iron workers, said Saturday
afternoon;
''If Wilson testified that I had any
deal with him or Delaney to blow up
any part of the works of the Utah no
tel building, he is liar. The union
men of this city are not engaged IN
that kind of business.
90 AS far as [ know, ] have never met
Wilson IN my life until I met him in
the office of the chief of police after
he had been arrested.
81 met Delaney some time ago He
came to me and wanted a card. which
he stated he wanted to use so that he
could go TO another place.
q deny absolutely that | or the local
union iron workers had anything TO do
with the explosion at the Utah hotel
building on the night Of December 2S.
Whatever difference we may have with
the Jones company and the Utah hotel
people we will fight out on legitimate
grounds, and We Will not resort to vio.
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