Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-10-01
PROMINENT MEN IMPLICATED
Number of Defendants Are Officers
of Labor Unions,
GROWS OUT OF LOS ANGELES CASE
Twenty-Five Killed When Times
Building Was Blown Up.
DEFENDANTS ARE ABSENT
MIA Prison and j. j. McCrny Has
Never Been Located--scna-
tor Kern for Defense.

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. S0-whoever
participated with the Mcnamara brothers
In the series OF dynamite and nltro-
glyeerin explosions which preceded and
followed the wrecking OF the Los Angeles
Times building. October !. 1910, when
twenty-one persons were killed, the
government hopes to disclose in the trial
which begins Tuesday before Judge A. B.
Anderson OF tifty-one men.
At the head of the list of defendants,
who thus are brought into court exactly
two years after the Los Angeles disaster,
are:
Frank NJ. Ryan, president OF the Inter-
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers.
ortie E. McManigal, once known as
j, W. McGraw on the Pacific coast, q
confessed dynamiter and accompiice Of
the Mcnamara brothers, who has been
kept In custody as witness for the
prosecution ever since his arrest in De-
troit year ago last April,
Herbert 8. Hockin, successor of John
]. MCNAMARA as secretary-treasurer Of
the union, whom McManigal accuses Of
being the organizer of the dynamitnig
crew, and one Of the originators OF tho
alarm clock scheme by which explosions
were set off several hours after the mine
was placed.
Most Of the other defendants are present
or former union officials whom the
government charges, were linked 10.
gether In conspiracy by an extensive
correspondence from 1905 to 1911. during
which time more than 100 explosions In
states scattered from Massachusetts, to
California occurred In works under con-
Strucuon by employers OF nonunion labor.
One Defendant Missing.
Iifty-four mn were indicted last Febru.
ary' but John J. MoCray, WheslIng, w,
Va, never has been located and the Nc.
Namara brothara'4 areiain prison. ita caIl4
fornis
The court room. which probably fot
weeks will be the scene OF the rial has
long been ready. Every precautson has
been taken to secure quiet The w1ndows
Of the small room, located on the outside
corner OF the second floor Of the federal
building. have been heavily curtained to
exclude the daylight. Recently Judge
Anderson had the walls and ceiling thickly
padded with felt to improve the sound
conditions
United States Senator John W. KEN
has been retained as counsel for the de-
PENDANTS, while the government will be
represented by District Atto-nsJ Charles
w. Miller and his assistant.
Sixteen defendants were placed under
and the others each under $5.oOo bonds,
making an aggregate in bonds OF ss50,000.
Witnesses are to be called from many
parts of the country. While 1t is not
the intention of the government to go
thoroughly into the cases which resulted
all that part of the evidence, Of the Pa
clflc coast explosions as pertains to the
illegal interstate shipment of explosives
have been made available to District At-
torney Miller.
Each Of the thirty-two indictments
returned last February contains charges
against all Of the defendants, and the
charges are embraced in three groups.
They are:
Transporting dynamite and nitro.
glycerln In passenger trains from one
state to another as ortie q. McManigal
confessed was done when these explosives
we're carried in suit cases from hiding
places at Muncie Ind; Rochester, Pa;
TiffIn, O., and Indianapolis, to cities where
''jobS' were to be blown up.
Conspiring to violate interstate regulas
tions relative to explosives.
Concealing knowledge of the couspir acy
or abetting the illegal transportation OF
explosives.
Most of the explosions Of which the
has made record were di.
rected against members Of the National
Erectors' association, an organization OF
who had broken off reia-
tions with the union and were conduct
Ing open shops" The first explosion or
attempt recorded was at Millers Falls,
Mass, In the summer of 1906 and the
last, October 1s, 1911. when at a. m,
near Santa Barbara, Cal, thirty-nine
sticks Of dynamite with a fuse were
found beneath bridge Just before. O.
special train bearing President Taft
passed over. Twenty OF the explosions
occurred in Ohio.
McManigal's confession was the basis
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