New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-10
PING BOMB TElEGRAMS
ARE LAID TO HOCKN
Government Charges He Sent
Messages Telling Squadron"
Where to Drop Dynamite.
MANAGERS MEMORY FAILS
Only One Head of Telegraph o1-
ices Produces Originals OF AL
legged Copies Held by Pros
ecution-Acouses Munsey.

,oai,panoiis. oct. S.-Telegrams sigheu
..,,,n,@ q name alleged to have been uSeo
,,. Herbert S. Hockin. and sent 10 or'le
~ NtcAfanigal. directing him where 20
.srnr,' dynamite bombs on his trips about
Inc country were sought by the govern
.,on, ,brouah the examination to-day OF
The first witnesses called in the trial OF
-be labor leaders accused OF dynamite
piots -.
Managers Of telegraph Offices in Builalo'
Detroit Toledo. Chicago, Cincinnati ina
e5apons, Evdhsvnle, Ind, and salt Lake
~ity testified With one exception they
asserted that the originals of te'eSranls
asked BY the government extending as
far back as 1893 had been destroyed IN the
ordinary course of business. The govern
ment saws Il has possession of the tele-
grams as received, and il called the wit
nassss To show the reason why the orig
inaI messages as sent cannot be produced.
1t was during this period that McAIah-
inal and the McSamaras formed the ny
ing squadron OF dynamiters.' the govern
lnent charges. often sending McManigal
out alone and equipped with suitcase
fined with explosives 10 await orders py
telegraph rs 10 what he should bio" UP
When James ". Noel, counsel for the
government, asked why the kilograms
we're not produced Senator j. W. Kern
foi,, the defendants, asked the witnesses:
You don't know that any such kilograms
ever existed, do your The witnesses re-
Died that they could not remember indi-
Vidus messages.
The kilograms. Mr. Noel said, often
were sent by Hockin. nov. acting secre-
taI-y-treasurer. Of the international Asso-
citation Of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers and at present on trial, TO Nc
Nanigars home In Chicago. They shifted
him. the attorney asserted from Chicago
70 ST. Louis, from Cincinnati TO lndianap-
oils and from Chicago to Holyoke, Mass
H. A. Knight, manager of telegraph
Office at Salt Lake City. was the first
witness to produce telegram. The tele-
gram was dated October 10, 1910, and was
pdrported to have been signed BY !. +.
Afunsey. known as Jack Bright one of
he defendants. According to the gov
esnment's charges, j. Il. Mcnamara, after
Moving Up the los Angeles Times
building on October /, 1910, hid for two
weeks in places secured BY Munsey. J. J.
Mcnamara, then secretary of the iron
workers. headquarters in indianapolis, was
anxious about his brother after the Los
Angeles explosion.
The telegram. as identified by Knight
and by Mrs Charles Mccarthy. who was
The counter clerk az Salt Lake City, fol-
lows -.
]. i. McNamara polis--Every-
THING lsO X. Glad G.. H. coming. Patient
is out Of danger and will get we'll. lie Is
improving right along You can depend
on nic 10 handle matters carefully. VIII
wire you If there IS any change.
... J. r. MUNSEN.
40. 2222s5 Southwest Temple street
at would be shown. the government said.
hat the &C" referred to was Eugene. a.
Claacy, of San. Francisco. on trial here.
VIE had tcen in Boston when the Times
disas5eT occurred and who was about to
SeaEt on, q fishing trip with Michael j.
fopng. of Boston. also a defendant but
news OF the joss Of life at Los Angeles in
juced Clancy 10 change his mind and
after sending a telegram to San Fran
cisco, to clean out the office" he decided
10 hurry West