The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-09
Findings in the investigation Of the
Los Angeles Dynamite Outrage
in Which Twenty-one
Were Killed.
GUILTY ONES KNOWN
Explosion Was Caused by Nitro.
Glycerine and Not From Gas
as Reported by Labor
Committee.

Los ANGELES, Jan. 9.-The report
of the grand jury which has investi-
gated the Times dynamiting on Oct. |
a. when twenty-one employees we're
killed, and which recently returned |
twenty-three indictments against sew
en- persons, is made public.
The jury finds the theory of gas
explosion untenab,e and declares it
is satisfied the explosive used was
lnitro-glycerine purchased at Giant;
that the identity of some of the de-
stroyers is known by the authorities,
and that they have been members of
labor unions and officials and organ
izers therein, but that no te-timony
was given to show any labor organ
ization participated in the commission
of the crime.
The report. in part follows:
I'VE unanimously report that there
was placed in the Times building, in
that part thereof known as Ink AL
Hey a high power explosive in the
nature of dynamite or nitro-glycerine,
and that the origin of the catastrophe
may be found by the destruction
4 wrought by this agency.
I'VE made exhaustive inquiry into
. the explosive action OF Illuminating
4 gas. The possibility o. gas being the
destroying agent, the explosive force.
lreceived full consideration. Expert
evidence and testimony Of those who
z ilaye had observation OF gas explos-
ions was extensively taken. Such
Ievidence makes the theory of cxplod-
ling Illuminating gas not only un-
Etenable. but puerile.
"On Oct. 26. 1910, there was pub
llished and widely circulated what pur.
lported to be report and findings OF
2 d committee appointed by the State
Federation of Labor to investigate the
catastrophe. We desired to have the
I benefit in our investigation of any
information which such committee
might have in its possession, or have
J knowledge of. and which might be
. material to the inquiry. We there
4 fore called before us all members Of
!, 1.-THE committee who could be found ir
= the state, namely. six of the seven.
IA remarkable condition at once be
= came apparent. 1t appears from thu
7 Testimony that only three of the sew
. en- members of such committee sign
. ed the report, heard the evidence UP
y on which it was founded, or even reat
= such report before its publication. |
: was made and written by John Ken
: meth Turner for financial consider
= alton.
after a full, fair and impartia
!. hearing of the committees witnesses
I and OF many others, upon the subject
) we find that there is not a scintill
!, iof evidence upon which to base TIL
- findings of such report, and that
was issued. as explained by its author
: not as a finding of the facts of tn
explosion, but as an argument in d'
fense of accusations made.
= This Jury is satisfied from the te:
!. timony that the explosive used at tn
- Times building was part of quai
= - tity of nitro -glycerine purchased
: Giant and that the identity of som
!. at least of the destroyers OF tn
:. Times building is known by the pro
= err authorities as well as by us, an
~ that in Gods good time the murde
:, ers will be brought to punishment.
rs while we are satisfied from tn
~ testimony that the perpetrators of tn
: terrible catastrophe have been mer
bers of labor unions and officials ar
organizers therein, and moreover, !
timately associated and connecte
lal with certain leaders and high officia
ed of labor unions, we have had no te
or timony that any labor organizatio
ast as such, participated in the commi
sion of those crimes.
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