The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-08

attorney is in possession of evidence
gathered by DR.. ]. a. Holmes, di
rector of the United States burea,
OF mines, showing that dynamite
; could not have caused the explosion
in the Times building. MI. Harri
man sad:
Detective Burns says he has
caught the men who .dynamited the
Times building-that one of them
has even confessed. or what value
could be a confession of an act never
committed. Why give credenee to
AIcManigal and his tale of dynamite
Ing building that was never dyn-
amited. Evidence such as offered by
DR.. Holmesis above price and this
expert who is held to be the highest
authority on explosives in the Unit
ed States utterly destroys the dyn-
amite theory. .
| First. The dynamite asserted
10 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 dyn-
amite will not set fire to inks or
| oils. An explosion of this sort
would not be followed by fiame-it
would eXtinguish flame.
Second gas explosion would,
on the contrary set fire TO inks and
oils, according to DIR. Holmes, and
WOULD be followed by sheets of
flame.
This evidence IN itself makes
McManigals confession worthless
There is an abundance of evidence
of this sort but this is merely a
feature. The alleged confessions of
McAlanigal looks even thinner today
after the Conners-Parks fasco. The
public would do we'll to disregard
all these fake stories of confessions
and identifications.''
The arrest of Bert II. Connors and
j. Fl. Parks, on charge of conSpir-
ing to dynamite the county Hall of
Records 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
credence in the story of an attempt
to blow up the Hall of Records A
drunken man was arrested in the
vicinity of the Hall of Records and
the next day Detective Rico, the
professional and authorized bomb
finder did his duty and found n
stick of dynamite in an alley near
fore the TIME explosion and it will
be recalled that this same headquar-
tiers detective found bombs at the
right hour in the Places where the
TIMES could make lhe best stories
of them.
Bert Connors was found in the
vicinity of the Hall of Records and
was arrested and held in Jail so
days without the police finding any
thing against him. Connors had been
member of the Structural iron
ARGUS
workers union and cad drawn ben
etits during the strike. His name
appears on the books OF the union
only as strike beneficiary
j. H. Parke was arrested at the
same time Conner, was taken to
Jail. Both the Otis morning papers
had pictures and diagrams ready and
the arrest was pulled. off with great
ostentation. "A great spread was
made of the story and faring head
lines for two days told of the arrest
of two bad dynamiters and woman
was mixed in the case.
Now it developers that Parks was
stool pigeon for some obscure anne
teur detective and that Connors is
the man VINO was SO unjuStly held
several months ago. The old rig
amarole about confessions and iden-
tifcationS was gone through with
ConnorS was again most unmerci-
fully sweated and told that Parks
had confessed and implicated him.
Announcement was made that Con-
norS had confessed and names of
prominent labor men We're handled
with the recklessness characteristic
of the capitalist dailies. Parks was
told that COnnorS had confessed and
involved him. The truth about
Parks business came to light.
County Detective Sam Browne en-
gineered the whole frame-up and he
and Assistant District Attorney Ray
Horton are accused of having given
the third degree to one Maple, a wit
ness who was supposed to be loaded
with Information concerning the
case. The affair has gone Il long
way towards discreditng the. entire
persecution of strikers on dynamite
charges.
Los Angeles, Cal, May-The eight