Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-20
BOMB PLOT IS
TOLD TO JURY
Alleged Nation. Wide Conspiracy
Is Under Consideration
MILLER TO CONDUCT PROBE

MILLER To CONDUCT PROBE
Transcript of Evidence Secured at In
dIanapoIls to Be Sent to Every Fed
eraI Jurisdiction Where Dynamiting
Jobs Were Done-ExpIosions Begun
Two Years Prior to Employment by
McNamaras of McManigaI
Indianapolis Dec. 15.-Shortly af-
ter the federal grand jury convened
Thursday 1t was learned officially and
for the first time. just what scope the
dynamiting inquiry will have.
Acting on an order from President
Taft, Attorney General Wickersham
has instructed the federal authorities
here to make a general investigation
OF the dynamiting plots throughout
the United States. District Attorney
Miller was placed in charge Of the
big investigation covering the entire
country and embracing every federal
Jurisdiction in the government.
This was done because the original
conspiracy, 1t is believed, was
Matched in the Office Of the Interna-
uonai Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers in Indian
apolis.
At the close Of the federal investi
cation In Indianapolis the grand jury
for this jurisdictiong will return in
dictments against those responsible
for the alleged conspiracy. Indict
ments also may be returned against
those responsible for the shipment of
dynamite from one state to another,
which is in violation of the federal
statute.
These indictments will be augment
ed by indictments against those per-
sons responsible for OF connected with
dynamitings at the French Lick hotel =,
and other places in the Indiana juris-
daction. This task having been COM
pleted by the federal grand jury here
transcripts of all evidence will be
made. These transcripts will be sent
to every federal Jurisdiction in the
United States where dynamiting jobs
were done.
In the various jurisdictions the evil
dence sent from Indianapolis will be
used as the basis of further local
investigation of the Jobs" done in
that part. Indictments against those
VINO may have had knowledge or who
Jobs" may result.
After weeks Of preliminary work by
government agents in many parts OF
the country where explosions have &C.
cured, the federal grand jury is
ready to begin its investigation of an
alleged nation wide conspiracy by
which dynamite, nitroglycerine and
other explosives were carried into at
least seventeen states.
The list of 100 explosions In struc-
lures in seventeen states, erected by
arms employing non-union workmen
was furnished to the government by
the National Erectors' association.
Beginning with the explosions OF
structural works in Massachusetts and
Connecticut, in the summer of 1905,
Il cites the damage done up to Oct.
1s. 1911. The explosions began two
years prior to the employment by the
McNamaras OF McManigal, who, &C
cordtng to his confession, blew up his
drst building In Detroit in June,
1907, with twenty sticks of dyna-
mite" and they extend into the pres
emit year, several months after the ar
rest Of the McNamaras.
There were two explosions in 1905
eight in 1906, six in 1907, twenty-siz
in 1908, twenty in 1909, twenty-five
in 1910 and thirteen in 1911. They
occurred In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York
Now Jersey, Massachusetts, Con.
necucut, Maryland, Wisconsin, Mis-.
souri,, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, Wash
SAgtOn and California. Ohio. will
twenty, heads the list in the numbe
OF explosions, Illinois, Pennsylvania
New York, Indiana and Missouri
come next