The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-14
SECRETARIES
 WILL TESTIFY
GREAT INTEREST cENTERS IN DYNAMITE HEARING BEING
 HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS.
n-rsr.men. of Justice at Washington Has Taken An Active Part in the investigation Now Being
 Made.


 wide interest will center here tomor- TOW when the weeks of work by detec- tiyes, attorneys and accountants who have compiled evidence alleged tU show complicity of others than the McNamara brothers in a dynamiting conspiracy, will be turned over to the federal grand jury for formal in- vestigation.
 Letters and records of the Inter- lational Association of Bridge and Structural dron Workers have been abstracter and checked against the statements of Ortie F. McManigal, confessed dynamiter. This class of evidence will be delyed into to fath- on charges of plot, with it's seat sa Indianapolis. by which according to the National Erectors' Association i'll the last five years, were carried into seventeen states and by which about 100 structures have been partly or wholly wrecked.
 Great precautions have been taken to insure secrecy to the deliberations in the grand jury room.
 Guards have been placed at the doors and all outsiders incauhing witnesses to be called are to be kept the entire length of the federal building, or almost a city block away from the jurors.
 District Attorney Charles W. Mil Tor indicated probably the grand jury would not conspiete it's work beror5 the end Of January.
 Herbert s. Hockin. secretary of the Iron Workers Association, returned today from St. Lollis, where it was reported he had conferred with Pres ldent Frank NJ. Ryan. Hockin de- clarer Ryan went to Chicago and said he would return here tomor- row.
 Almost the first witness to be cali- ed, it was learned, would be steno- graphers who were employed by Mo- Namara when he was an active ofii- cial of the union.
 Then evidence gathered by agents of the National Erectors' Association, papers seized in a raid on the Iron Workers Association headquart- CTS or voluntarily turned over by it's officials, and detailed confessions of McManigal. are to be submitted.
 Many witnesses from cities in which explosions have occurred have been subpoenaed
 Department of Justice Acts.
 Washington, D. C., Dec. 1S.-A vigorous investigation ald prosecu- ton of all persons connected with the alleged dynamite conspiracy is the emphatic injunction from the de- partment of justice direct to District Attorney Miller under which he will conduct the federal grand jury inquiry beginning at Indianapolis tomorrow. District Attorney Mccormick of Los :. Angeles, who has been here several weeks conferrk1g with officials of the department. left last night for New York on mission connected with the governments investigation. Officials however. decline to discuss the trip b detail.
 Attorney General Wickersham. through Assistant Attorney General Harr. is personally directing the gov- efnnent's course.
 The inquiry is based on two feder- al statutes, and if an accumulation of offenses can be proved under one or both of these laws against those responsible for the crimes, long terms of imprisonment may te imposed. The maximum penalty for violations of the statute fixying stringent condi- tions and restrictions upon the Inter- state shipment of explosives is Is months in the pe1itentiary and fine of $2.000
 The law by which it is held to reach all who may have inspired or direct A IA e- two or more persons to conspire to break 6 federal law. This imposes a maximum penalty of two years ina prisenment and slo.OO0 fine. One or both of these laws would apply tn every legal shipment of explosives