The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-19

WILL THE STATE AcT?j
State and County Laws Moro Severe
Than the Federal in the PEN
altles Promised to
Dynamiters.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 49,
While deputies armed with subpoenas
searched for number of material
witnesses today, the federal probe In
to the alleged dynamiting conspiracy
was temporarily halted while the
grand jury considered number OF
minor counterfeiting cases. With the
announcement from Los Angeles that
Ortie McManigal, who will be District
Attorney Miller's star witness here,
will soon be actually on his way here,
the necessity of haste has passed and
the probers will now slack up until
after the holiday recess, which win
be ordered next Friday.
i Every witness SO far examined has
been utilized to prepare the ground
4 for McManigars story The records
1 and statistics of the Iron Workers,
and the statements of Miss Mary Dye
} regarding the letters exchanged be-
4 tween john J. Mcnamara and the
business agents of the Iron Workers
Organization in the various localities
where McManigal alleges he caused
explosions, have all been placed before
: the jury by TIL, prosecutor 80 that
when McManigal comes he can clinch
the evidence and indictments can be
Immediately framed. Out of town
: witnesses are enroute here to tell the
ri jury about the various explosions J.
Mcnamara and his associates in
$ the executive board of the Bridge
: Workers are alleged to have caused.
e Most OF these will be examined with
in the next three days as secretly as
possible and their stories likewise
will be the prelude to the McManisal
A. stellar appearance. The latter will be
r on the stand four days at least when
J. the jury reconvenes Immediately
v after the holidays and it + expected
q when he concludes and few corrob
n orative witnesses are called, indict
( ments will be ordered
d One thing troubling the fedora
d authorities is whether they will be
il able to shunt most of the prosecutions
n off to state and county courts. This
d they would like to do because the
punishment for any offense that nigh
! be proven in the federal jurisdiction Il
d much less than that provided by the
~ state in the various localities. Al
n. soon therefore as indictments arr
10 found here, Miller will communicate
"a with the local authorities wherever al
u ,,1o nfFnr tht
"a evidence for use in any prosecution
"a Where the offer is accepted the loca
# indictments will be held up. Howeve
.. IT is not believed this offer will b.
IS generally accepted
i. Because of the admitted fear tha
an attempt might be made to tampe
with witnesses, the federal authoritie
in charge of the probe into the alleg
ed dynamite conspiracy, adopted ad
IS ditional stringent measures today +
v prevent the identity of witnesses be
a. ing learned.
The grand jury, after disposing G
n number of minor counterfeitin
e cases, resumed it's consideration G
the charges against the members G
q the executive committee of the bridg
y and structural iron workers and ce
e tain of their business agents. All {
A. today's witnesses were smuggle
through private entrances to the jur
% room by private, detectives and go
,r ernment officials, and taken by d.
q. vious routes both to and from tn
federal building. All persons wer
1t warned against accosting witnesse
n. but it was learned that today's test
At mony was entirely along lines heret
,e fore covered.
ID 1t developed today that nearly all I
n the evidence used by the state autho
tiles at Los Angeles in the prosec
In tion of the McNamaras is to be tran
"a ferred to this Jurisdiction immediat
NJ ly after the holidays. 1t is believe
:, by Prosecutor Miller that 1t will .
~ possible for this evidence and VIII
- has already been turned over to hi
Of by private detective agencies, to pr
~ pare absolutely perfect cases again
10 dozen men, two of whom at lea
"a are of national prominence in lab
90 circles. AS result of the deli
or necessary to get all of this eviden,
= here, it is announced with authori
!, that no indictments will be return.
to before the latter part OF January.
ry
Value Of the Smile.