Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-02-06

Nuy evening Herald a, Y. Leased Wtrel
indianapolis, Feb G.-Thlrty three
Indictment most of them said to bo
against labor union officials. were re-
turned by the federal Grand jury to-
day as the result OF the governments
Investigation of the dynamite con-
spiracy
District Attorney Miller announced
| later that only thirty-tWo OF the in
1 dictments pertained to the dynamiting
conspiracy, one true piil being In an
other case not made known.
/ The number and the names OF the
defendants were ordered to be held
secret, pending arrests. Il is under
stood warrants are To be issued inn
mcdlatcly
Not only members Of the Mcnamara
"dynamitlng crew" but also men who
are said to have had knowledge %
what Mcnamara dJd With money al
his disposal are believed 80 have been
indicted.
Former associates of J. j. McNam-
ara, iE the office OF the international
Association Of Bridge ana structural
Iron Workers received the news OF
]
! Both Frank VI. Ryan, the president.
and Herbert $. Hockin, .he secretary
| treasurer. said they knew the direc-
/ tlon of the Investigation. because the
| associations records were evidence
oofore the grand jury
But we have maintained right
/ along said Hockin, that nobody In
this office was concerned With Me-
Namara IN his dynamitiuE.'
Part of the indictments are known
10 be against men who met Ortle T.
| McManigal in Detroit .n June. 1907
and induced him, because OF his fam.
iliarity with explosives gained wnil,
working IN "A stone quarry 20 befom,
"a regular member of the McNamar,
"dynamitlng crew"
other indictments are believed 4
be against men who met McManiga
in Boston and showed him where q
put the explosives which blew az
part OF an opera house there Marcl
-. 1903. and who afterwards wen
with him TO Springfield, Mass, an'
showed him where to blow up part O
"a building, and also who escorted hin
from New York to Hobokon. y. J,
and Jersey city where he ala "jobs'
in 1909 and 1910; men who met hin
la cleveland Ia July 1910. and ar
ranged Tor an explosion at Akron
ohio. and men who took caarge o
him whom he arrived at Peoria III
% blow up places there.
Another indictment Is said To- dea
with "a Chicago man, Nho after Me
Manigal partly wrecked by dynamite
a. srrl
Ia February 1914, handed him am en-
velope containing tlC0 with the re
mark, There's money In that"
Men who were traced as havin
helped in causing explosions al Oma
ma, Nebraska; Erie, Pa. Davenport
Iowa. Perth Amboy, y. j. Pelham
N. Y. and MANY other points ln ohio
where twenty explosions occurred. ar
said 90 bee involved.
The charge OF cuucoalmcnt OF know
ledge of the guilt of others is said G
have been brought tn bear in connec
tion with the $1,000 allowed monthl
10 j. g. Mcnamara as secretary
treasurer OF the international Asso
citation of Bridge ana structural iroI
Workers for which he was requirel
Go give NO accounting.
Fully one hundred explosions %
dynamite. az points scattered over sew
enteen states. and covering "a poriu'
fom the summer OF 1905 10 Oetobe
10. 1871. when dynamite was foun
beneath e. bridge near Santa Barbara
Cal. Just before President Tafts spc
Clal train passed over a. were inquire
Into hy the federal grand jury whic
! aas investigated what the government
, has regarded us "a nationwide dgna
mite conspiracE
. n has been the theory Of the gov
j eminent that all uf these explosion
b were intended to lutimidate employer
and nou-unlon workingmen with th
general intent 90 abolish the Fo-catlc
. "Open shop" and compel sunWiesio
. 90 the demands of certain labor or
ganizatlons, more particularly enc in
tsrnutionnl Union of the Bridse an
structural Iron Workors
The states in which explosions oo
curred we're ohio. lndiana iIliuoh
PENNSYLVANIA. New York. N,N Jorscl
Maryland, Connecticut. Masnchusetu
Michigan. Wisconsin. Missouri lows
Nebraska. Utah. California and Wash
, inuou. ohio. with twenty explosion