New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
38 LABOR CHIEFS
GUILTY; TWO FREED
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Charles N. Beum, Minneapolis.
/ William &. Reddin, Milwaukee.
! Michael j. Cunnane, Philadelphia.
/ Richard n. Houlihan, Chicago.
James Cooney, Chicago.
James A. CoughIin, Chicago.
William Shupe, Chicago.
Edward Smythe, Peoria, w.
James e. Ray, Peoria, III.
Murray L. PenneII, Springfield. III.
William C. Bernhard, Cincinnati.
/ Milford Bert Brown, Kansas City,
/ Mo.
William, J. Mccain, Kansas City, Mo.
Frank X. Painter, Omaha.
/ Peter j. Smith, Cleveland.
! George Anderson, Cleveland.
/ Mchae j. Harmon, Scranton, Penn.
/ Edward e. Phillips, Syracuse.
| Charles Wachtmester, Detroit.
Frank J. Murphy Detroit
/ Fred J. Mooney, Duluth.
! Ernest G. w. Basey, Indianapolis.
| Fred Sherman, indianapolis.
Hiram, r. Kline, Muncie, Ind, former
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/ Of Carpenters and Joiners.
Aftermath Of Los Angeles Explosion.
| To-days convictions, coming on a
scale unprecedented In a federal court,
were an aftermath Of the killing or
twenty-one persons in the blowing up
of the Los Angeles Times Building
on October /. 1910. Mcnamara and his
brother. James B., THE Times" dyna-
inter. are in San Quentin prison, Call
fornia: Ryan and his fellow officials.
former associates OF Mcnamara, are
federal prisoners here, awaiting SEN
tence.
Two Of those convicted were not af-
fliated with the ironworkers' union.
but they were found guilty OF joining
with the ironworkers' officials in pro-
noting the conspiracy. one Of these is
Olaf A. Tveitmoe. a recognized labor
leader on the Pacific Coast. The testi-
mony against him was that he aided in
causing explosions at Los Angeles, that
he wrote letters referring TO them az
christmas presents" after the fatal
explosion at Los Angeles, and that he
aided in concealing evidence wanted in
California He is secretary OF the Cali
fornia Building Trades Council.
Hiram r. Kline is the other man con-
lvicted who was not an ironworker. He
was formerly an organizer for the
United brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners in Detroit.
Another token Of the Los Angeles ex-
plosion came in the conviction of j. II.
Munsey, who was charged by the gov
eminent with harboring James b. Nc
Namara for two weeks in Salt Lake
City while that dynamiter was fleeing
from the place Of his crime.
Many of those convicted were charged
with knowing only Of local explosions
on the work of contractors who re-
fused TO recognize the union, but were
thus brought into the general conspir-
acy. Ryan. John T. Butler, Eugene A,
Clancy. Frank C. Webb. Michael j.
Young, Philip A. Cooley. Henry w
Legleitner and Charles n. BOum were
all convicted as having appropriated
out Of the Unions funds $1,000 month
with which Mcnamara paid for ex-
plosions.
Herbert S. Hockin, who resigned ms
secretary Of the union only a few
weeks ago and who was branded as
1.-THE Iago Of the conspiracy" in having
helped 10 instigate the plots and in
employing Ortie f.. McManigal &c
carry them out. while afterward DE
traying his fellow conspirators" 10 pro
mote his own interests, IL among the
most prominent Of those found guilty
He figured almost daily in the testi-
mony.
Ended in Sixteen Minutes.
Sixteen minutes was all the time re-
quired by the federal court to receive
the jury, read its verdict OF thirty
eighty guilty and two not guilty" and
|, dismiss the Jurors.
That verdict brought 10 an end the
! historic dynamite conspiracy" trial
which had lasted three months. II
meant, except in the cases Of Herman
G. Seiffert and Daniel Buckley-tht
two men out of forty TO be adjudget
/, mot guilty'-that the government:
: charges about dynamite plots extend
ing over six years had been sustained
! It meant also that thirty wives
many OF whom, with their children hac
sat patiently through the long draw
, out ordeal, were at last TO be sepa
rated from their husbands.
Important details yet remain in con
, sequence OF the verdicts. Punish
ments are TO be imposed upon tn
; thirty-eight men by Judge Albert b
Anderson on Monday at 10 a. m. III,
! intimated in the course of the tria
! that he would fix sentences In &C