The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-09
MUNSEY LIKELY, To
Be HEARD THIS WEEK
Score of Alleged Dynamiters
Ready TO Go on Stand in
Their Own Behalf.
LAWYER HOVEY TALKS
Former Senator Kearns to
Testify; Tveitmoe May Not
Go on Witness Stand.
LAWYER HOVEY TALKS

INDIANAPOLIS, December s.-About
twenty or the defendants so far un-
heard, including executive board mem
hers of the iron workers union. to-
morrow arc 10 begin their testimony at
tho dynamite conspiracy trial. Those
still 10 appear in their own behalf
against the governments charges that
they aided I'm the Mcnamara dynamite
plots by causing explosives TO be car
rled on passenger trains illegally are
John Butler, Buffalo, vice president Of
the union; Michael ]. Young, Boston:
Sarr St. TssG Toas New j. E. losh MSnss4 sShn salt III
Lake City, and Eugene A. Clancy, San
attorneys for the defendants stated
that scores OF new witnesses have been
summoned to testify as to tho reputa-
ton OF the union officials for peace
and quiet" Altogether about 100 more
witnesses for the defense are 10 ap-
pear.
Three OF the defendants. including
Herbert 5. Hoc1in, accused leader Of
ne dynamite crew" and "betrayer" Of
Jail because OF their inability to fur
Alfred r, Hoyey. who with Senator
of Salt Lake City and Clancy. and Olaf
"A; Tveltmoe OF san Francisco said to-
night:
. we 90 not expect 10 put clancy ana
Munsey on the stand for four or five
days or until after most OF the testimony
OF the defendants from eastern cities has
been completed. Clancy has been maxi
shal be summoned In his behalf
Among witnesses for Munsey will he
Thomas Kearns. Salt Lake City. former
United States senator.
"As for Tveitmoe we do not believe
he will take the stand at all. Our be-
lief is that the evidence produced by the
government against him has not been
sufficient to warrant his testifying."
Three defendants mentioned have been
charged by the government specifically
as implicated In the Los Angeles eHplo-
sions. Tveitnoe, secretary Of the Cali
fornia Building Trades council and a la
Dor lender who helped finance the ef-
forts to unionize various trades in Los
Angeles, has been accused by the govern
OF asking John J, McNamara. after
the Los Angeles Times explosion for
more explosions in Los Angeles. and ac-
knowledging Ortie L. McManigars eS-
geles on Dec. 25. 1910 as "a Christmas
present TO the Pacific coast"
or furnishing David CapIsn and NJ a.
Schmidt to help James s. Mcnamara
blow up the Times building.
or helping to get CspIan and Schmidt
"out OF the way" go they never have
been found.
1t also was charged that MCNAMARA
while In San Francisco arranging for
the Times explosion called up Tveitmoe
on the telephone.
Clancy also has figured In the testi-
mony. McManlgal said after causing the
second explosion in Los Angeles ths I
while looking for Treitmoe at the build
Ing trades council in San Francisco he
met Clancy and CLANCY almost tainted" p"
Arthur Neitch, deputy district attorney
OF Los Angeles county said Clancy once
tainted at sight OF McManigal. Clancy.
who was In Boston at tho time OF the
first Los Angeles explosion Is accused
of telesraphlng 10 San Francisco to
"clean house" meaning the government
charges, to destroy evidence.
Munsey, besides being charged with be-
ing active in labor disputes In Salt Lake
City in connection with structures after
wa rds blown up is accused OF having
harbored the Los Angeles Times dyna-
miters for two weeks and OF sending
messages to Indianapolis that the dyna :
miter was "out of harms way"