Montana news., 1911-06-22

building last october.
II am looking over the points and
the defense will reach definite con.
clusions as to the moves 10 be taken.
The plea of NOT GUILTY will be en-
tered June 1. We will move TO
quash the indictments at that time
In the meantime there are multi
tudinous tasks ahead Of us. We shall
investigate the construction of the
grand jury. There are 1900 fohos OF
testimony TO be gone over and that, In
itself. is detail that will consume
much time.
I'VE shall probably not ask for a
change of venue because. in the event
IL were grante1, IL would compel us
to go where the Judge sent us and
that might not work to our advantage.
We shall have TO study the case from
all these points have been here
but a few days and have not yet gone
over the entire ground. shall have
to get better posted on California Jaw
and practice and then can work from
better basis
have seen the Mcnamara broth
ers several times. They are cheer
ful. calm and confident. But there
is a big fight ahead, There is a
strong similarity between the way
John J. Mcnamara was brought here
and the way the Western Federation
Of Miners men were taken from Den
yer TO Boise l will not go farther
into details in that direction at this
time
MIR Hartman and the other at
torneys have been very busy on the
case up to this hour and find every
thing in excellent shape. There will
be nothing given out about the case
to the daily newspapers and few
statements will be made"
Mr. Darrow is in excellent health
and says he never entered on a big
case feeling better.
Attorney Job Hartman has been
working on the case since the hour
Of the arrest of the Mcnamara broth
ers. He has had charge of all the
large number of cases where striking
brewery workers and metal workers
have been prosecuted under the in
famous anti-pickct ordinance. An in
sight into one of the lines of the de-
fense may be had from a statement
made by Mr. Hartman a few days
before Darrow's arrival The at
torney is in possession of evidence
gathered by DIR. ]. A. Holmes director
of the United States bureau of mines
showing that dynamite could not
showing that dynamite could not have
building. Mr.. Hartman said:
Detective Burns says he has caught
the men who dynamited the Times
building-that one Of them has con-
fessed. OF what value could be n
confession OF an act never committed.
Why give credence to McManigal and
his tale of dynamiting a building that
was never dynamited. Evidence such
as offered by DIR. Holmes is above
price and this expert who is held to
be the highest authority on explosives
in the UnitedStates utterly destroys
the dynamite theory.
First. The dynamite asserted to
have been used is made by the Giant
Powder Company OF Berkeley. This
brand has been tested by the United
States Bureau of Mines and will not
set fire to gas This dynamite will
not set fire to ink or oils An explos-
ion of this sort would not be followed
by flames-it would extinguish flame.
Second. A gas explosion would,
on the contrary set fife TO inks and
oils, according to DIR. Holmes. and
would be followed by sheets of flame.
This evidence in itself makes Nc
ManIgals confession worthless. There
is an abundance OF evidence OF this
sort but this merely one feature.
The alleged confession of McManigal
looks even thinner today after the
Connors-Parks fiasco. The pubic
would do well to disregard all these
fake stories OF confessions and identi-
fications."
The arrest of Bert ii. Connors and
]. NJ. Parks. on a charge OF conspiring
to dynamite the county Hall OF Re-
cords last September, has turned out
to be the worst sort OF a fraud. No
one in Los Angeles-aside from the
dupes Of the Times-placed any cred
ence In the story Of an attempt to
blow up the Hall OF Records. A
drunken man was arrested in the vicin-
ity OF the Hall OF Records and the
next day detective Rico, the profess
ionaf and authorized bomb finder did
his duty and found a stick OF dynamite
In an alley near the Hall OF Records.
This was before the Times explosion
and II will be recalled that this same