Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-15

ROUNDING UP DYNAMITERS.
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| McManigal i j. Mcnamara had
| told me to go TO Boston and get in
| touch with Young. He said he did not
| know whether Young wanted me 10
| meet superintendent or TO do job
| bur he said | was to go prepared to do
a job and not to meet anybody. mean
| ing, | wasn't 10 do any smuggling
When ! arrived in Boston, Young
| said. / want YOU to go down there
and look over the municipal building.
| BY looking over it he meant blow it
up. We went 10 Springfield and after
looking over the building, / said /
don't think we can do much With the
tower The foundation was 30 feet
deep in concrete. He said Well. put
| her in there anyway ! placed tile shot
ana il Went off about O'Clock the next
morning
Hiram cline, national organizer for
the international Brotherhood OF car
rentere and Joirers, was arrested at
bis homo q, Munice. late today. and
brought here. tonight Cline is tho
third agent Of any union except the
Iron Workers, to he involved in the
| conspiracy. The others are Clarence
Z. DeWd ef Rochester. y. Y. formerly
agent ot the international Machinists
Union, ana Sturgeon S. Meadows. In
dianapelis. an agent Of the Carpen
ters Union. ALL it is alleged. we're
concerned in dynamite explosions
against contractors who employed
non-union carpenters and machinists,
as well as iron workers. Meadows.
Pasey. former business agent of the
Local Iron Workers Union, and Fred
q all
ed to have been concerned in four sim
ultaneous explosions which occurred
at midnight Cf Oct %, 1909, in this
city They caused a loss of $4,000 to
Albert Won Sprecklesen, a contractor,
VINO mad been employing non-union
M Of all the building crafts
Frank NJ. Ryan said: Il desire to say
to the public and for the satisfaction of
my friends both in the union and outside
of labor union circles, that am inno-
cent of knowingly having violated any
law of the United states or of any law of
any state in the Union. Therefore | have
no fear of a trial / am indeed proud of
the work which | have been able to ac-
complish in my long years of service and
atfliation with an organization which
has. on the whole, done so much 10 ele-
Hockin said: 4 wish to say that am
absolutely innocent of having violated
any law
Phillip A. Cooley of New Orleans. who
was instructed at Savannah. Ga, TO re-
port To the federal authorities, is the
fifth and only other member of the Iron
Workers executive board to he Indicted.
Ind ;aY n &c In a n
NJ. Ryan. president of the Information
al Association of Bridge and strac-
tural Iran Workers, was arrested here,
today. on indictments returned IN the
dynamite conspiracy.
Herbert :. Hockin of Detroit. sec
ond vice president and secretary
treasurer Of the iron workers. and
John T. Eutler of Buffalo. first vice
president. and Fred sherman, Il local
business agent. were taken TO the fed
eral building when Ryan was arrest
ed i VAS not said what action was
taken Hockin is the successor Of }.
]. Mcnamara as secretary treasurer.
OF me work OF the investigators. Mr.
Miller said:
1t is the policy of the government
TO have no man indicted unless justi-
ments wera returned with this policy
clearly in mind.
More than 800 witnesses from Bos-
ton II Los Angeles. and from Duluth
IL points in Tennessee We're examined.
The investigation was directed TO the
matter of cOnspiracies To commit OF
lenses against the laws of the United
States ana the transportation OF dy-
Mantle and nitro -glYcerine as dehned
and made punishable by the various
acts of Congress of 1866. 1905 and l9O9.
The conspiracy involved the I'M
lawful transportation of dynamite ana
nitro-glyeerine used in the destruction
of buildings, bridges and other struc-
lures where the work was not nelhS
done by members of the Iron Workers,
The investigation was thorough ana
complete i'll all respects"
Scranton Pa, Feb. I'm. j. Harmon,
business agent of the Central Labor
Union and local business agent OF the
Structural Iron Workers. was arrested,
today, as one of the dynamitng consplra-
tors. He was in custody of Deputy Mar
shall II. ]. Evans for seven hours be-
fore the required 5000 bail was secured.
He StOutiN IfidliltdiflS Ills lliHoNNhNN N''AN
declares that in December, 1906, the date
given in the indictment as being the time
the conspiracy is alleged to have taken
place in indianapolis, he was working in
Philadelphia.
Ortie McManigal confessed that he
came to Scranton to look over gas
tank which was being erected by open
shop" iron workers Harmon AYERS that
he knows nothing of such visit and
never knew McManigal or any man bear
ing any of his aliases.
Denver, Feb. 14.-Henry G.. Legleitner,
who was arrested here. today. as one OF
the defendants indicted for completely in
the alleged nationwide dynamite con-
spiracy, is quoted as saying that it was
a mystery to him how or where Critic
Mechanical and the McNamaras got the
money to carry on their dynamiting OPP
erations. Asked whether the executive
board of the Iron Workers ever voted
Mcnamara $1,000 a month for organlza-
ton purposes Legleitner is quoted as
saying;
.\o. Mcnamara was not given that