Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-31
Three MEN ARE ARRESTED
OLAF TlIETMOE. ANTON JOHAN.
SEN AND J. T.. MUNSEY
ARRESTED.
CHARGED With CONSPIRACY
Violated Federal Laws by Conspiring
Ia Transfer Dynamite From
state to state.

Los ANGELES. Doc. 30.--Tlt'ee
labor leaders of national prominence
were indicted and were arrested by
government officials and alleged to
be connected with alleged nation
wide dynamiting conspiracies which
federal grand jurles began invcsti-
eating hero and In indianapolis dl-
rectly after the Mcnamara brothers
confessed on December /. The men
arrested are olaf Tvietmoe. secretary
treasurer Of the California State
Building Trades council, and head OF
the Asiatc Exclusion league. Anton
Johannsen. organizer of the state
building Trades council and J. Il.
Munsey, head of the Salt Lake Clty&
local union Of bridge and structuraiV
iron workers, of which organization
John j. Mcnamara, now serving fif- =
teen years In prison. was interuaSs
tional secretary and treasurer. 4M
Transported Dynamite. W
These three men are charged withP'
having consplred to transport nitro
one state to another in violation Of
the interstate commerce laws.
II. A. Clancy, former agent for the
Structural Iron workers in San Fran
cisco. was charged with the same Of
Tense in the same indictment, but he
has not been arrested.
Five Others \!ictcd.
In addition to these four, five 9TH
er men were named In the indictment.
They are Ortie McManigal confessed
accomplico Of the McNamaras. tho
chief aid in gathering the evidence;
the Mcnamara brothers. and David
Kaplain and o. Schmidt alleged con-
fedcrates of James b. Mcnamara in
the blowing up of the Los Angeles
Times building.
Tvietmoe, Johannsen and Munsey
obtained bail in the sum of $1,000.
Lecompte Davis. ono OF the Nc
Namara defense attorneys. Mrs Job
Hartman. wife of another one of the
attorneys who represented the Me-
Namaras. and John Murray. who for
merly edited a labor union paper,
acted as bondsmen.
Tvietmoe persistently refused to
make any statement to the press.
Johannsen excused himself by de-
claring he had had falling out with
Uncle Sam.
Munsey also was reticent job
Hartman said that the men probably
would remain In Los Angeles until
their arraignment next week.
End Is Not Yet.
A. I. Mccormick. U. S. district at
torney. declared that the govern
ment's investigation of the alleged
dynamiting conspiracy was by no
means ended. He intimated that be-
sides continuing the investigation
into the Illegal transportation Of ex-
posives the grand jury might take
UP alleged misuse OF the mails.
Concerning the indictments re-
turned today Assistant U. 3. District
Attorney Reagan asserted that the
government was In possessiJl OF cons
elusive evidence against most of the
men arrested.
are said to have been broken by Nc
returned today involved only crimes
alleged to have been committed In
the southern district OF California
Inc SpftlllC ACT tndTktd AGAINST
the alleged consptrators Is the trnns-
portation of explosives In connection
with the dynamiting Of the Llewellyp
iron works here on December !
1905. At that time the federal laws
Mccormick said the indictment
bringing explosives here
from Riverside. Calf. as a part OF
an interstate trip from Chicago.
Unknown Persons Indicted.
While only nine men were men,
toned in the joint indictment filed,
the grand jurors made provisions foi
the possible arrest of others by ad-
ding the phrase "and others to the
Jury unknown" to the true bills.
The conviction Of any OF the per.
sons named means sentence OF two
years in the pen or fine OF $4,000
or both, on each Of four counts con.
talned in the indictment.
As soon as the men were arrested
they sent word to Job Hartman. who
said he would represent the men for
tho present at least. Lecompte Davis
did not know whether Darrow would
be engaged.
H. W. Pohlman. business agent for
the iron workers Of Seattle, said: