The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-01
lFo1y-six Labor Leaders, De
&ndants lin Government
Dynamite Conspiracy
Case, Arriigned.
FlGHT DEFENDANTS
ARE NOT IN COURT
Three Are tie Two McNama-
ras and NcManigal, ! One
4 Missing, One Hurt and
Three Ard Excused.
tNational 1ews Association,

Il INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. For
fy.six alleged nrticipants in con-
spiracy to illegNly transport dyna-
mite in organiz4d labor's warfare on
ncn-union and pen shop contractors
faced trial todaS in the u S. federal
c0urtshere. Th4 f0rty.six were those
left after the Neliminary sitting out
OF tle cases agSnst fifty-four men in
dicted by the fAeral grand jury here
III February. Cees against three men
were nolle pros1ed by the district at
torney because be did not have evil
dence to substptiate. his case. Two
men, the McNmara brothers, now
serving sentenQ in California. were
marked on thaArecord, mot found"
One man, OrtieE. McManigal, govern
ment acctser, leaded guilty to every
Indictment. On man, John J. Nc
Cray, of Wheehg, w. Va, indicted
with the others las never been appre-
hended and is believed to be dead.
One other, DaniM Brophy, of Brooklyn,
! N. Y, is in an EASTERN hospital with
broken leg. e three men against
whom charges ere dropped are Pat
rick ,hyan, OF CT eago; ]. w. Irwin, of
Peoria, IN, and hdrew J. Kavanaugh,
or Springfield,
Work txsecure Jury.
The work Of lecting the jury was
begun at 10:30zn zne hour after the
opening Of cou The court struck
out forty-fiye the one hundred
counts In the rrty-four indictments.
The cases agai| all the defendants
;Are being tried gether, Judge A1befts
B. Anderson ha |g sustained a motion
for seperate tril based on a technic-
ality and later stained motion for
consolidation Der the technicality
had been remova
4 Some idea of lie length of time
that will be reqted to get jury can
We estimated fro the line of question
ing by the attoleys for the defense.
j. M. Hatfield, Il Marshall, Indiana,
the first venirdbn to be examined,
was asked amo& other things If he
had any childre& how they were and
whether boys oi (irls; il he had any
brOthers.in-law; IS views on labor
and other questi2s by the score. La
ter it develop& that Hatfield had
strong opinions egarding the cases,
which he had led from reading the
newspapers, and Emitted he would be
prejudiced to TIL extent Of that opin-
ion. Hatfield n then excused and
the tedious proc of selecting a jury
proceeded mondt nously.
CASE Isl IMPORTANT.
INDIANAPcfI Ind, Oct 1.-The
opening today of|he trial against the
forty-six presenfpr former officials
Of labor unions, the charge of COM
plicity IN the called "dynamiting
conspiracy" att1Eted large crowd
OF spectators to4he court room of
Judge Albert B. Aderson of the Unit
cd States District Court Long before
the opening of G. court every avail
able seat in the art room was occu-
pied and the co@dor of the Federal
building was fin with people who
could not find spt$ in the court room
During the prel tinaries to the open
ing Of the ses1A general interest
centered in UniM States Senator,
John w. Kern. lief counsel for the
defendants and u trict Attorney Chas.
". Miller and HI assistant. Clarence
Nichols, who rep1 ent the government
81 this trial ley were on hand
uromptly, apparely prepared for the
may. The forty men facing trial
occupied the plal assigned to them.
They did not sed to be worried and,
hefore the court hs formally opened.
carried on an 8 mated chat among
themselves.
The defendant re indicted under a
Federal statute bidding the trans
portation of ex Yes on passenger
tcons,91 dedf far. siEh''