The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-13
Five Words Sent to Dynamiter With
His $75 Fee Leads to Trail
Of the Inside
Circle.
GRAND JURY TOMORROW
Labor Leaders In Eight Cities VIII
Probably be Arrested Within
Next Several
Days.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec 1Ss--
Compliments of the -- --."
| These FIVE words, said to have been
written on the back of an envelope
which is alleged to have been handed
to Ortie McManigal. in Detroit In
1907, is asserted here today to be the
beginning of the use in the govern
ment's trail of the inside circle OF
the Mcnamara dynamiting conspiracy.
The envelope is asserted to have con-
tanned s75 as payment for the first job
of dynamiting to which, 1t is alleged,
McManigal confessed to.
From that alleged initial transac-
tion in which higher ups In the
nationwide conspiracy are asserted to
4 have been mentioned, SO far as the
i federal officials are reputed to have
!, learned, the trial Of the inside circle
is said to lead to at least eight DIFF
ferent cities in the United States
, where labor leaders reside who are
; believed likely to be caught in the fed
l eral net.
Documents reputed to contain this
information are now in the hands o1
3 the United States officials here and II
8 is expected to be laid before the fed
eral grand jury which will meet here
J. tomorrow
! Evidence now in possession of thu
g government, is said to be wanted II
s at least thirteen cities in the United
States by local officials to be used il
! investigating dynamitings. The citte
q are: Detroit, Brooklyn, Kansas City
Il Cincinnati, Buffalo, st. Louis, Omaha
Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Chicago
Q New York and Peoria.
u Every stenographer who has beel
5. employed by the International Asso
IT citation of Bridge and Structural Iro
9 Workers during recent years is e1
pected to testify. The two stenograpt
e. ers now employed by the iron workers
have been subpoenaed by the fedora
q authorities, as we'll as a former on
u living here.
The chief witnesses are expected
> be Frank Eckhoff, the Cincinnati cor
:, maker, who is said to have muc
= knowledge regarding the operation
>. of the dynamiters, and Ortie McMa
= igal, who will come from Los Angelo
Keeping Themselves Scarce.
- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 49,
The whereabouts of Olav A. Tveitmo
~ president of the San Francisco lab,
council and member of the exec
~ tive committee of the Californ
4 Building Trades council is puzzlir
the government secret service me
working or the alleged country-wit
dynamiting conspiracy.
Not word has been heard fro
on Tveitmoe since he left New York fl
nd San Francisco shortly after the A
ct lanta convention Of the America
Federation of Labor. Tveitmoe is sa
w to have been acquainted with the M
is Namara brothers and subpoena hi
been issued for him to appear befo
ap- the United States grand jury at L.
ed. Angeles. Alfred Johanssen, anoth
ap- labor leader, and Mrs. David Capla
wife of the man who was closest
al, i q. Mcnamara during his operation
on the Pacific coast, have also d
OF appeared.
ige Case viii be Dropped.
ed LOS ANGEL LES, Dec. 13-That t
VS.. bribery cases against Bert Frankli
lty chief detective for the Mcnamara
let, fense, will collapse is the concens
of opinion today following Franklin
arraisnment before Justice Young
the charge of bribing one of t
e.I sworn Mcnamara jurors.
When Franklin appeared his att
tee ney, Henry T. Gage, requested co,
ia not to axact fresh bail. as Frank
re- was already under $4,000 bail in
I'M Lockwood bribery case. The cot
atty accordingly permitted Franklin to
tue on his own recognizance.
SIS No time has been fixed for Fral
Ws Inns trial on either the lockwood
Ems Balm charges as Deputy District
81 torney Ford is examining a decisi
of the state supreme court which p
vents conviction on felony charge
the unsupported evidence of one
81 ccmplice.
no Bribery Fund.
per LOS ANGELES, Dec 13.-With
ano resumption OF the federal investi
the cation Of the alleged dynamiting c
eti- s,,;,.aa,, - 40. Iaor,od TODAY :
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