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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
Jury BEGINS PROBE PUBLIC UTILITY BILL
Federal Inqusors Take Up Senator Gainger Introduces
Dynamite Conspiracy. Revised Measure
LIST OF 100 EXPLOSIONS IT is SENT TO COMMITTEE
Gives
National Erectors' Association. Commissioners
WORKED IN EIGHTEEN STATES SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES
Twenty Appraisal Adopt
Cases of Violence Aimed ed-Power to Ex-
Granite
Federal Inquisitors Take Up
Dynamite Conspiracy.
LIST OF 100 EXPLOSIONS
Details Furnished Government by
National Erectors' Association,
WORKED IN EIGHTEEN STATES
Ohio Heads List, With Twenty
Cases of Violence Aimed at
Nou-Union Firms.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, December IA
After weeks of preliminary work and
probing by government agents in many
parts of the country where explosions
have taken place. the federal grand jury
was ready to begin here today its inves-
tigation of an alleged nationwide con-
spiracy by which more than 100 structures
were blown up, and in which dynamite,
nitroglycerin and other explosives were
carried into at least seventeen states.
A detailed list of 100 explosions in
structures erected by firms employing
non-union workmen. as furnished to the
government by the National Erectors' AS
| sociation. was prepared for the grand
jury.
The list. beginning with explosions of
structural works in Massachusetts and
Connecticut in the summer of 1905, cites
the damage done up until October 16.
1911. and points out. as indicating par
ticipation by others than John J. and
James B. Mcnamara and Ortie E. Nc
Manigal. that crimes Of this nature were
perpetrated in seventeen states. The ex-
plosions began two years prior to the
employment by the McNamaras of Nc
Manisal, who, according to his confession,
blew up his first building in Detroit in
June, 1907, with twenty sticks of dyna-
| mite" and they extend into the present
year several months after the arrest of
the McNamaraS
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Runaway in Hyde Case Says
He's Half Crazed.
COULDN'T STAND 'CooPING'
Stares of People in Court Worried
Him to Distraction.
WHOLE JURY Is DISCHARGED
Waldron in Highly Nervous Condi-
ton, Says He Has Lived
Like Tramp.

KANSAS CITY. Mo. December IA
Weak from hunger and exposure Harry
Waldron, the juror whose escape last
Sunday night blocked the progress of the
second trial of DR.. B. Clarke Hyde,
charged with the murder of Col. Thomas
II. Swope, returned to his home today.
He was brought into court by Mrs. Wal
dron, and after a conference with him
Judge Porterfield announced that he
would dismiss the entire jury on the
ground of Waldron mental incompetency
His eyes shifting and every movement
betraying shattered nerves, Waldron de-
scriDed ts Judge Porterfield four days OF
wandering through the country in search
of fresh air and freedom from contining
walls and staring eyes. %.
He denied having discussed the Hyde
trial with any person. His narrative to
the judge was told in the presence Of his
weeping wife. .
"Driven to Distraction" He Says.
II had been driven almost distracted,
judge, before l got my feet on the
ground and got to the country" he said,
but l don't think I'm crazy. Il couldn't
stand being cooped up. l felt imprisoned.
There seemed to be nothing but walls and
eyes around me. L longed for fresh air.
When l would go into court l could hard
ly hold myself, the .stares of the people
worried me so. So that night l decided to
get away. from 1t.
Il got street car to Argentine and
there caught freight train. got or at
Emporia Kan, where l shaved OF my
mustache. That afternoon-it was Mon
day-I read of my escape in the papers.
TT told of the possibility Of my COM
mitting suicide l thought of my wife
and children and decided to return home
no matter what the consequences. But
several times l lost my nerve.
Wandered Miles in Fields.
"I wandered miles through the fields
and I rode in freight cars Yesterday I
reached Kansas City.
II slept in livery stable last night
and this morning went to my home.
had read in the papers that the officers
had quit watching 1t.
Il saw one of my children in the barn.
ward and gave him note to take to his
mother, but he was afraid of me and
ran. I went into the house, and when !
saw my wife / felt better than l had
since they put me on the jury.
Il had $12 of jury pay, which 1 had
held out from my wife, intending to buy
still have it. l spent only a few cents
during my wanderings. l couldn't eat
Questioned regarding any communica-
tions he might have had concerning the
trial. Waldron said after he read in the
papers Of his escape he asked farmer
what he thought OF that Hyde juror
running away
He said, That fellow was pretty slick.
I'll bet he got away with his pockets
full )" WaldrOn said.
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PRINCE TO MAKE BIPLANES.
Kaiser's Brother Said to Be Organ
izing a Company.

BERLIN. December H Several news
papers assert that Prince Henry of Prus-
sia brother of the emperor. who holds an
aerial pilots certificate, together with DR..
Max Predoehl, former burgomaster of
Hamburg, are organizing a company to
manufacture biplanes on system in
vented by Max OertZ. The capital OF the
company is said to be $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
May Have Been Insane.

A blood stained hatchet and a four-foot
talestick were found in the pit near the
three bodies, and with these the police
believe the murderer first felled and then
mutilated his victims. Mrs. Morner had
received a blow from the hatchet on the
right side of the head and her skull was
fractured in several places
The body of the elder girl, Edith, also
was badly cut and bruised. Her head
was nearly severed by a blow from the
hatchet and there was large hole in her
left temple The younger girls body was
the least mutilated
Motive for the crime seems to be lack
ing. What money there was in the house
before the murder was found intact
Indications. the authorities say, point
to the murderer as being insane.
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ABANDON HOPE FOR MINERS.
Work of Rescue Squads at Bricevill.
Retarded by Fires.

RRICEVILLE, Tenn. December IA
Work of rescue squads employed in recov-
ering bodies of miners imprisoned in the
Cross Mountain mine last Saturday, was
retarded today by fires in the mine en-
tries.
Hope of rescuing more miners alive
has been abandoned.
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Holds Law Unconstitutional.

NORFOLK. Va, December 14.-The
law passed by. the legislature of Virginia
requiring hotels to furnish sheets at least
eight feet long to all beds was today
declared to be unconstitutional by Police
Justice Duncan of Norfolk before whom
a test prosecution was brought. The
state appealed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
Abdul Hamid Extremely III.

BERLIN, December IA special news
dispatch from Constantinople reports that
the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid has been
brought back to Constantinople from Sa-
loniki. where he has been confined in
the villa Allatini since his deposition on
April q. 1909. He is said to be extremely
III
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Paid for Funeral in Advance,

ST LOUIS, Mo-, December 14.-Mrs.
Mary Walsh, seventy-five years old, who
twenty-five years ago gave $135 to an
undertaken for her funeral expenses, was
buried today by the undertaken to whom
she gave the money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-14
PHONE GIRL WITNESS
Tells Committee Things She
Says White Told Her.
WOULD MAKE THEM PAY
Part of Defense's Plan to Show an
Attempt to Blackmail.
BAD MAN AFRAID OF A DUCK
Some of Miss Woods Testimony
Causes Investigating Commit
tee Merriment.

Il am going to make the I.orimer bunch
pay me enough money to keep me all the
rest of my life. and If they don't I'll make
it hot for LOrimer.'
Charles "A. White, the former Illinois
legislator. who made an alleged confes-
sion of having been bribed to vote for
Lorimer for senator. made the above
statement, according to the testimony of
Katherine A Wood, a former telephone
operator at East ST. Louis, ILL., before the
Lorimer investigating committee today
Il told him to be careful or he would
land in the pen." said Miss Wood but
White said he had influential people in
Chicago back of him and he was not
afraid
She said White told her he was bad
man" and that he had killed two men
down south. She testified that just before
the sO-called expose in the Chicago Trib-
une by White the latter had told her TO
watch the Chicago papers
Miss Woods testimony was part of the
plan OF the defense to charge that
Whites bribery story was a scheme to
blackmail Senator Lorimer.
Deneen's Name Brought In.
MISS WOOD said that on one occasion
when she asked White who were his in
fluential friends in Chicago upon whom
he was depending to keep him out of
trouble, White replied he was being
backed by Gov. Deneen and a Mr. Sulli-
van.
Did he mention Gov. Deneen by
name?" asked Senator Kern.
Yes
The witness said she did not know who
Mr.. Sullivan was. Senator Jones want
ed to know If it were Roger Sullivan the
democratic leader, but Miss Wood said
White had never told her. She insisted
that White had positively stated that he
would have the backing of Gov. Deneep
If he got in trouble.
Says Tame Duck Scared Him.
Some portion of Miss Woods testimony
caused the committee merriment.
She said White always carried a re-
volver to protect himself against the
"Lorimer crowd"
"Once he wanted to shoot out an electric
light said Miss Wood, land another
time he wanted to shoot tame duck in
our yard
white was shooting the duck?" sug-
gested one of the lawyers.
He didn't" replied the witness. Il
asked him not to. He said the duck had
scared him."
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THIEVES STEAL RELICS
AT ST. ALbAN'S Church
Brass Vases, Altar Cloths and
Contents of Contribution.
Box Taken.

Burglars visited st. Adams Episcopal
Church at Wisconsin and Massachusetts
avenues northwest last night and carried
away six brass vases, the contents of the
contribution box and two altar cloths.
1t is thought by the police that the rob-
berry was committed by the same bur-
glars who visited st. James Catholic
Church at Mount Rainier, Nd, a week
ago and committed a similar robbery.
Rev. George G. +. Bratenahl, rector of
St. Alban's was out of the city last night.
having gone to New York Detective
Warren and the police of the Tenleytown
precinct visited the church today and
made careful investigation. but no clue
to the robber was found.
Valued for Association.
While the intrinsic value of the vases
probably is not more than SO, they were
priced as relics. as they had been pre-
sented to the church by. the Hurst fam
lily many years ago. Two of the vases
were carved, while the others were plain.
The vases had been used on the altar
for many years. The two altar cloths
that We're taken We're worth several dol
lars each. 1t is not known what amount
of money was in the contribution box.
Entrance to the church was gained
through side door. 1t is thought the
door was not fastened last night and
that access was made easy for the bur-
glars.
Books Strewn on Floor.
One of the bookcases in the rector S
study was broken open and ransacked.
Books We're taken from the case and
strewn upon the floor, but none of them
is missing.
The burglars who. visited st. James
Church at Mount Rainier carried away
nearly 500 worth of property. Finger
prints were left by the intruders at ST.
James Church, and it was thought they
would lead to the identification of the
burglars, but as the church is in Mary
land the local police did not participate
in the investigation and get impressions
of the prints.
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TRUSTS LACK PROF|T|P[AN GREAT CAPITAL
Brandes Saws Monopoly Does Judson Wants Washington
Not Mean Efficiency. Made Demonstration City,
URGES LA TOILETTE BILL BENEFIT TO THE COUNTRY
Regulation Things
Competition. Displayed Here
NOT A NATURAL EVOLUTION WORK EXPERTS
Artificial Deusve Should
of Cover
URGES LA TOILETTE BILL
Insists Regulation Is Needed to Pre-
serve Competition.
NOT A NATURAL EVOLUTION
Economies of Monopoly, He Says.
Are Artificial and Delusive.
Some Are Losing Grip.

\ word from the other side" was
heard today by the Senate interstate COM
merce committee which for several days
has been listening to eXponentS of the
federal control of monopolistic corpora
tions idea. Louis ID. Brandeis, ..4e Boston
lawyer and antitrust champion. appeared
before the committee to advocate the La
Folette bill. designed to supplement the
Sherman law. According to Mr.. Brandeis
there is such thing a natural mo-
nopoly in industry. and if the law prohib
itng the practices through which exist
ing great combines grew up is clearly de-
fined and enforced no trusts will arise i'll
future.
supporters of the La Toilette bill he
said. believe in competition in Industry,
on economic. social and political grounds.
They agree that only unrea sonab,e re-
straints of trade should he prohibited.
Eut they believe the law is inadequate,
difficult of application and unsatisfactory
in its remedy. They propose to let the
law remain. but to supplement it with
provisions remedyins these defects.
Necessity of Regulation.
Regulation is essential to preserve
competition. just as regulation is neces-
>ary to preserve liberty We curb the
strong TO protect the weak. In the realm
of business. factory laws. limitations of
the hours and conditions of labor, restric
tions on the right of contract pure food
laws meat inspection laws and postal
fraud prosecutions similarly limit free
dom. IL will not do to say You can't
make the people compete by law or
Artificial competition is undesirable
There are no natural monopolies in indus
try. Even the oil trust got control by
ruthless and unconscionable violations of
law by criminal rebating. bribery and
corruption. which brought it wealth with
which to destroy competitors by price
cutting and like practices The steel
trust acquired control, not through great
er efficiency, but by buying plants and
ore supplies at fabulous prices Not
one industrial monopoly is natural
growth.
Mr.. Brandeis mentioned the tobacco.
shoe machinery and sleeping car COM
bines as other trusts that had been
able TO fix prices result of acquired
mOnopoliStic positions. Most trusts.
lie said, which did not secure actual
monopoly. but control through price agree
ments with competitors have failed to
hold their ground against the independ-
ents." lie Went into detail to describe
alleged price-iuggling methods OF each
of the larger combinations magazine
article on the British view of the steel
corpora tiOn was cited to prove that the
rise i'll the cost of steel production Is
costing this, country its foreign mar
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at a maximum of efficiency; how most
wisely and most fairly the public purse
may be filled; what functions the city
should undertake: what is the proper de-
gree of perfection to be sought in the
performance of each city function. SO that
some may not thrive unduly at the ex-
penSe of others.
Surely, If there is knowledge of all the
facts. our people will have the political
wisdom to take advantage of that knowl-
edge. Never should a man be at the head
OF d city department who is not an eX-
pert in its conduct and reasonably certain
In the tenure Of Lis Office, SO that he may
have the courage to say mo- to each one
who wishes some yielding from the public
interest in his own behalf.
Scour Country for Men.
IF | am right about this. then those
selected by the electorate should not be
charged with duties that can fairly be
placed upon heads of departments. The
principal duty of those elected. it seems
to me, should lie. when an important va
cancy occurs, to seour the whole country
for an expert who could probably devote
Continued on Fifteenth Page.)
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1T is SENT TO COMMITTEE
Gives Increase of Powers to Dis
trict Commissioners.
SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES
Appraisal Plan of Maryland Adopt
ed-Power to Order Ex-
tensions Granted.

senator Gallinger introduced this after
noon IN the Senate his revised public utiI-
lily Dill. 1t was referred immediately tn
.le Senate District committee, and Is
iikeiy TO receive prompt attention at the
hands of it's members
Like the first bill. which he introduced
last June ii confers the powers of a rnb-
Tic utility commission upon the District
Commissioners
Inc changes are numerous and in some
cases important In many cases the
changes are those of wording TO make the
piii as inclusive as possible as affecting
the public utilities in the District
Inc biggest Change was the substitution
OF the appraisal plan of Maryland for
that or Wisconsin. The Maryland law. il
is said by Senator Gallinger. was framed
later than that of Wisconsin, and is
therefore considered better. This new
provision is as follows;
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Likening Washington to a great demon
strating farm. where under the most ia
vOrahle conditions. and under the guidance
of experts results are secured so nearly
approaching perfection as to encourage
others. set standard for them and dem
onstrate the best methods, Engineer Com
missioner William V. Judson carried his
ideal of the National Capital in an ad-
dress before the second morning session
today of the seventh annual convention of
the American Civic Association.
He said he was speaking as an Ameri
can citizen and not as a District Commits
sioner. and while at least verbally disas-
sOciated from his official personality. Maj.
Judson said: Il claim that the working
out of municipal problems here. so that
other cities might come to Washington
for tried and satisfactory practices, would
amply repay the country at large, nearly
one-half of whose Inhabitants are urban
brothers. in the direction of all Of it's
local expenditures.
Bespeaks Aid for Capital.
After speaking of his viaws on the
theory of municipal government from a
constructive standpoint. Commissioner
Judson asked the association to help
make Washington the greatest capital in
the world, saying:
We have bills before Congress for the
control of our public utilities: for the
orderly and systematic prosecution of the
required great public improvements in ac-
cordance with definite plans, and a well
considered program; and for the estab-
lishment, practically based on consents,
of special building restrictions.
THE passage of these bills is essential
if the Capital city is to attain in its de-
velopment that measure of perfection
which is bounded only by existing cOndl-
tiOns and the limitations of human fore
thought. l ask your society to make
Washington often subject of considera-
ton.
Commissioner Judson continued: 81
would liken my ideal Of Washington as
model city to a great demonstrating
farm, where, under the most favorable
conditions and under the guidance of eX-
perts. results are secured so nearly ap-
preaching perfection as to encourage
others, set a standard for them and DEM
onstrate the best methods.
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That the commission shall, whenever
1t may deem ii desirable to do so. inves-
tigate and ascertain the fair value of the
property of any public utility subject TO
the provisions of this act and used by il
for the convenience of the public. For
the purpose of such Investigate ton the
commission is authorized to employ such
engineers, experts and other assistants
may be necessary. Such Investigations
shall be prosecuted with care and thor
oughneSs, and the results thereof reported
to the District committees in Congress.
Each such public utility shall furnish
to the commission from time to time, and
as the commission may require, maps,
profiles, contracts, reports OF engineers
and other documents. records and papers.
OF copies of any and all of the same in
aid of such investigation. and to deter
mine the value OF the property of such
public utility used for the public service:
and every such public utility is required
to cooperate with the commission in the
work of the valuation OF its property in
such further particulars and to such eX-
tent as the commission may reasonably
direct.
THE commission shall thereafter. in like
manner. keep itself informed OF all exten-
sions and improvements or other changes
| in the condition of the property of the
| said utilities. and ascertain the fair value
thereof, and from time to time, as may
be required for the regulation OF public
utilities under the provisions of this act.
revise and correct its valuation OF the
property of such public utilities.
ITO enable the commission to make such
changes and corrections in its valuation,
every public utility subject to the proyi
sions of this act is hereby required TO re-
port currently to the commission changes
in its property and to file with the COM
mission copies of all contracts for changes
and improvements at the time same are
executed.
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Ohio Heads the List.

There were two explosions In 1905, eight
in 1905 six in 1907, twenty-six in 1908.
twenty in 1909. twenty-five in 1910 and
thirteen in 1911. They occurred in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts,.
Connecticut, Maryland, Wisconsin, Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, Washington
and California
Ohio with twenty heads the list in the
number of explosions. Illinois. Pennsyl-
vania, New York, Indiana and Missouri
come next
After the arrest Of the McNamaras. ex.
plosfons took place at Mount Vernon. n
Y. and at Cleveland. The last attempted
explosion is recorded in the list as having
taken place October 16, this year. neal
Santa Barbara, Cal. at a bridge erected
three years ago. Dynamite was fount
near the bridge just before the specia.
train bearing President Taft passed over
it.
After the explosions of the year jusi
preceding, the National Erectors Associa-
ton. in May 1906. was formed by con-
tractors. who. in pursuance of a plan tc
maintain an open shop" employed de-
tectives to investigate the dynamiting
Kansas City's Record.
The announcement that w. +. Griffith
chief Of police of Kansas City, Mo-, would
arrive here late today, prepared to testify
concerning various explosions I'm Kansas
City. drew attention to the important par,
which the confession Of McManigal is to
play in the probe. Details of the blowing
up of five structures in Kansas Clyde
cember a, 1908: April %, 1909; June %
1909; August %, 1910. and December 30
191O-which resulted I'm the partial wreck
ing of viaducts. buildings and derricks
under construction by firms employing
non-union men, are in the hands of the
government investigators Bearing on
these. McManigal in his confession quoted
at least one of the dates. saying:
On August ES L pulled off the Nc
Clintic- Marshall job ct Kansas City.
did not see ]. ]. Mcnamara, although he
was in town at the time. From Kansas
City / went to Peoria, Ill. j. j. Nc
Namara returned to indianapolis on Au-
gust % or 80, 1910, at which time he paid
me for doing the Kansas City job.
told him about the bad luck l had had
on the Peoria and Kansas City jobs, and
he gave me hell about not getting back
the clocks that did not go off,
The clocks referred to by McManigal
were the alarm clocks used by him to
the time for the ignition Of the
fuses Attached to the winding key of
each alarm was small sheet of copper.
so adjusted that when the alarm was re-
leased the copper. in turning, Joined two
electric wires, which thus created a cur
rent and caused the spark that exploded
the dynamite or nitroglycerin.