The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-10-01

brothers IN Lne SERIES VI us udu1tS
and nitroglycerin explosions which
preceded and followed the wrecking
of the Los Angeles Times building,
Oct. /, 1910, when q persons W.ra
killed, the government hopes to dis"
close in the trial which begins today
before Judge A. b. Anderson Of fif-
ty-one men.
At the head of the list of defend
ants, who thus are brought into court
exactly two years after the Los An
geles disaster, are:
Frank NJ. Ryan, president of he
International Association of Br'.53
and structural iron workers.
.Ortie E. McManigal, once known
.s -. w. Mctiraw' on the Pa'if.c
coast, confessed dynamiter anj ac-
complice of the Mcnamara brothers,
who has been kept incustoly as a
witness for the prosecution ever since
his arrest in Detroit year ago last
April.
Herbert S. Hookin, successor of
John j. Mcnamara as secretary-treas-
urer of the union, whom McManigal
accuses of being the organizer OF the
dynamite crew" and one Of the orig
inators of the alarm clock scheme
by which explosions were set off sew
eral hours after the mine was placed.
Most of the other defendants are
present or former union officials
whom the government charges were
linked together in a conspiracy by
an extensive correspondence from
1905 to 1911, during which time more
than 100 explosions in states scatter.
ed from Massachusetts to California
occurred in works under construction
by employers of non-union labor
Fifty-four men were indicted last
February. but John J. McCray. Wheel
ing, w Va, never has been located
and the Mcnamara brother are in
prison in California.
The court room which probably for
weeks will be the scene of the trial,
has long been ready. Every pre-
caution has been taken to secure
quiet. The windows of the small
room. located on an 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.
Kern has been retained as counsel
for the defendants, while the govern
ment will be represented by District
Attorney Charles W. Miller and his
assistant.
Sixteen defendants were placed un-
der bonds of $4,000 each, to appear
for trial and the others each under
$4,000, bonds making an aggregate in
bonds Of s35O,0O0
Witnesses are to be called from
many parts of the country. While
it is not the intention Of the govern.
ment to go thoroughly into the cases
which resulted in the Imprisonment
of the McNamaras, all that bart of the
evidence of the Pacific coast explos-
ions as pertains to the illegal inter-
state shipment of explosives has been
made available to District Attorney
Miller
Each of the 32 indictments return
ed last February contains charges
against all the defendants, and the
charges are embraced in three groups.
They are:
Transporting dynamite and nitro
glycerin in passenger trains from one
state to another; as Ortie McManigal
confessed was done when these ex-
plosives were carried in suit cases
from hiding places at Muncie. Ind,
Rochester, Pa. Tiffin o., and Indian
apolis. to cities where Jobs were to
be blown up.
Consipiring to violate interstate
regulations relative to explosives.
Concealing knowledge of the con-
spiracy or abetting the illegal trans
portation of explosives.
Most of the explosions Of which the
government has made a record were
directed against members Of the Ma
tional Erectors Association, an or
ganization of constructors who had
broken off relations in the union and
we're conducting open shops" The
first explosion or attempt recorded
was at Miller's Falls. Mass, in the
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