Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
/. ADJOURNMENT is TAKEN
Court Will Reconvene This After.
noon to Await Findings.
DEFENDANTS UNDER GUARD
Hundred Special Deputies ana
Bailiffs Keep Back Crowds Trying
to Witness Last Scenes.

INDIANAPOLIS, December 21.-With
the forty labor leaders accused in the
dynamite conspiracy trial assembled
in the federal courtroom here this
morning under close guard, Judge An
derson' announced that the court would
adjourn until 2:3O this afternoon, when
the jury's verdict will be received. if
some conclusion as TO the fate of the
accused men has been reached by that
time At $3.50 this morning, when the
adjournment was announced, there
were no indications of an early YER
dict Judge Anderson instructed the
jury a few minutes after 5 o'clock last
evening.
The floor of the federal building on
which the courtroom is located re-
sembled a place under guard this morn
ing. no one being allowed TO enter eX-
cept those having business there. one
hundred special deputies and bailins
were stationed about the corridors oil
the federal building to keep back the
crowds.
Thousands Of people have tried in vain
TO witness the closing scenes OF what
the government contends is the most
important trial, involving labor union
officials ever held i'm federal court
Judge Anderson courtroom Is compara-
lively small, being occupied almost 70
its capacity merely by the forty defend
ants, members Of their families, attor-
neys and newspaper correspondents. The
room occupied by the jurors day ana
night for three months is reached by a
special stairway not accessible 10 the
public.
Fate Of McManigal.
On the same floor with the jurors are
Ortie L. McManigal and Edward Clark.
confessed dynamiters. McManigal. upon
whose confession the government laid
the basis of it's charges that labor union
officials violated the federal laws pro-
nibiting the transportation Of explosives
on passenger trains, is to be returned to
the custody Of Los Angeles county. Cat,
reation since being brought here as a
loan" from Los Angeles county, is his
exercise on the roof of the building and
carving picture frames out OF cigar
Jokes. Clark who confessed to blowing
up bridge at Dayton, Ohio, is to be
sentenced after the perdicts as to the
other defendants are returned.
Government officials seem confident tha
| befOte nieat the Jurors will be able <
return their findings. The union official.
are accused of assisting in and of appro
priatins $1,UU month for the series oi
lvJ dynamite and nitrogiycerin explo-
sions carried on by the McNamara
brothers against the employers of non
union labor in Los Angeles and Other
cities.
Do Not Expect Early Verdict.
From the fact that Federal Judge Al
bert B. Anderson instructed the jury tt
oF,,1e Anr oil tho ~
the CASE which it required three month:
to present, attorneys for Frank NJ. Ryan
president Of the Ironworkers' Interna
tional Union, and the other defendant
were of opinion that the jurors may no
| be able to find verdicts within tWepty
| four hours after their retirement.
List Of Defendants.
| The defendants are:
| Frank NJ Ryan, president Of the Inter
national Association of Bridge an,
Structural Ironworkers; John 7. Butler
Buffalo, vice president; Herbert S
Hockin, former secretary and formerly
of Detroit; Olaf Tveitmoe. San Francisco
secretary of the California Buildin.
Trades Council: Eugene a. Clancy. Sai
! Francisco Philip y. Cooley, New Or
leans: Michael J. Youns. Boston; Franl
j. higgms, Boston; j.. E. Munsey, Sa.
Lake City, Utah: Frank C. Webb. New
York: Patrick F. Farrell. New York
John H. Barry ST. Louis; Paul j. Nor
rim, ST. Louis; Henry w. Eeeleitner. Den
YER. Charles y. Beum. Minneap
oils; Herman G. Seiffert, Milwau
kee: William f. keddin, Milwaukee
michael j. Cunnane, Philadelphia; Rich
ard IL. Houlihan. Chicago; James A
| ,,ooney. Chicago; James II. Coughlin
Chicago; William Shupe, Chicago: Ed.
ward Smythe, Peoria. ILL.,; James f
Ray, Peoria. ILL.,; Murray L. Pennell
springfield, ILL.,: Daniel Buckley, Daven'
mort, Iowa: William c. Bernhardt. Gin
cinnati: Wilford Bert Brown. Kansas
City, Mo-: William J. Mccain, Kansas
City. Mo: Frank K. Painter. Omaha
Peter J. Smith, Cleveland; George Ander'
son, Cleveland; Michael j. Harmon
scranton, Pa; Edward E. Phillips. Syra-
lcuse. n. Y; Charles Wachmeister, De.
troit: Frank J. Murphy. Detroit; Fred
7 Mooney, Duluth. Mimi; Ernest G.
| ". Basey. Indianapolis: Fred Sherman
indianapolis; Herman r. Kline. Muncie
Ind. former organizer for the United
! Rrotherhood of Carpenters and Jolners
| All except Tveitmoe and Kline are
connected with the ironworkers union
! clancy. Webb. Legleitner, Farrell
Coolev' Beum and Young are present
or mast members of the ironworkers
/ executive board. and as such are charged
/ with appropriating $1,000 to enable
| Iobn I McNamara. then secretary, to
nav expenses of dynamiting.
| Tba attendants are not charged under the
| fodaraI laws with personally causing any
axnIosion. They are charged with con
| sniracy to violate federal laws and with
aiding in an illegal transportation of dy'
amite and nitroglycerin Oh passenger
trains.
Refers to Senator Kern.
| In closing his argument to the jury Dis
| trict Attorney Charles W. Miller again
referred to the argument of United States
Senator John w. Kern. counsel for the
F., defendants. Senator Kern had left tin.
city. saying he was going to Washing
| ton.
..-rhe Los Angeles Times building eX-
nlosion was called the crime of the CEN
tury." said Mr. Miller. but the real crime
of the century was this damnable conspir.
acy. 1t would be an everlasting disgrace
10 our country and to our civilizati II
these forty conspira.ors are not convicted
Gentlemen of the jury. United States
senator. sworn to uphold the laws of his
country. has dared to stand before you in
defense of these enemies OF the republic.
You should find these conspirators guilty
and nut YOUR seal Of condemnation upon
such conduct by United States SEN
ator."
Judges Instructions.