Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-02-20
GOVERNMENT IS FORTIFIED
Prosecution in Dynamite Cases Has
Much Evidence.
ONLY TWO MEN YET AT LIBERTY
j. W. Irwin, Former Secretary of
Peoria Iron Workers, Taken in
Chicago. to BE Involved In
Several Explosions.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb Is.-Three kinds
OF evidence. It was learned today. are
being prepared by the government for its
prosecution Of the flfty-four men indicted
in the dynamite conspiracy.
II was stated by District Attorney
Charles W. Miller that all this evidence
is to be corroborated by witnesses whose
names are already known, and the EVIL
dence is chiefly:
About 4io0o letters and kilograms
taken from the headquarters here Of TIE
International Association OF Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. which, accord
ing to charges IN the indictments. show
that President Frank NJ Ryan. sscre-
tary- Treasurer Herbert s. HockIn and ex-
ecutlve members eorresponded for six
years with business agents OF local unions
about Jobs to be blown up.
StenographIc records OF a telephone
apparatus which the government had
connected with Ryan's headquarters for
more than three months and through
which II h asserted conversations Of the
iron workers officials about the dy-
Mantle conspiracy were overheard and
subscribed.
ortie +. McManigal's confession COW
crlng his experience as a dynamiter em-
ployed by J. J. Mcnamara from June,
1901, 10 his arrest last April.
McmanigaI star witness.
''Mohanlga!'s confession probably viii
be the basis OF the prosecution" said
District Attorney Miller. lit has been
corroborated In every detail. especially
with reference to men who he asserts as
sisted him in the transportation Of nitro
glycerlne and dynamite. Hotel clerks.
railroad men and wagon drivers from
over all the country have verified his
statements as to when ard where he was
in connection with particular explosions.
About 200 OF these witnesses were before
the federal grand jury. and undoubtedly
more than that number will be called ut
the trials ...+-.
Il dislike to comment on The govern
ment's telephone apparatus which was
Installed In Ryan's Office one night last
october, and by which two government
stenographers in a room below were able
to record lust what was said in the Iron
workers headquarters, but will say the
apparatus worked satisfactorily, and We
have a great abundance OF notes taken
by that means which undoubtedly will be
offered as evidence
McManigal. now in Los Angeles. will
not be arraigned with the other defend
ants on March IL, but will be brought
here during the trials, probably In NAV.
II is not stated when McManigal will be
arralgned,
Only Two Not Arrested.
The arrest of ]. W. Irwin In Chicago
today puts the government into posses
sion Of all but two Of the fifty-four men
indicted. The defendants who had not
been apprehended are John j. MeGraw.
formerly an iron worker at Wheeling. W.
Va, and Patrick Ryan, formerly a busi-
ness agent in Chicago. ..-
Irwin Is named in his indictment as
having been secretary and treasurer OF
a local union in Peoria in 1905 and lsoa
MECHANICAL confessed he blew up several
places in and near Peoria after that time.
one OF these was an explosion In Septem-
Der. 1910 when six buildings were dam
aged and night Waterman was injured.
LeRieftner Taken hast.
DEN v Eth Eebs R-henIs W. Leg
leitner labor leader indicted by the
federal grand jury in connection with the
nationwide dynamite investigation. left
Denver at o'clock tonight in custody OF
United States Marshas Dewey c. Bailey
for Indianapolis. He viii be arraigned In
that city March y. e-t
Legleitner Is being taken TO Indianapolis
a. ktfRAaR a Eaata M
Federal Judge r. w. Lewis after II was
determined that he would be unable 10
furnish the sl0.oo bond required for high
officials and executive board members OF
the structural iron workers under indict-
ment.
The prisoner made no additional state
ment before his departure.
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