Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-02
JHE DYNAMITE
 TRIAL IS OPENED
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sc@ia'ion of Bridge and sruemral Lon MyfkeFs in indianapolis over l7n4o letters Uet4 obtained. Tlc5e pa}"-s together with McManigal's sst!mrny were submitted to t6e Oc- obe2 Federal Grand Jury Wh'ch was ono&H @ eoHduet tte i4vestigat on in Indianapolis. The papers were said to have shown under what cir rum5tanees M4Nanisat was induced
 afht in(o the ayuaHitne business against open shop contractors. and ais5 to tEr5W -sf. 0f on the S1.oO9 d montS altoWeI MeNamara fer or gan zin& purposes
 A5-r i six weeks session Hbc grand arg e3ia9nea until 1anaary, Wh-a the ease WIS again taken up ly the sfanl' jurors. By this time secret service agents had compiled mass ot eFideHee which involved 5l prami= nen9 labor men in almos. every c'ty of sIza Il the United States. Indict- mems were handed down during the oaliy part of February Of this year and on tac fifteenth of the month Whoj sale arrests were made.
 Ire uneonsumated acts indictments, en5saeed the letters taken from the .Fon W0l l<afs I'nion and NeManigal $ confession. Ryan's letter fr~m New York in ApFi 1910 was cted jn the i adictment as show ng that he in str4e d H nry W Legieitner to do certain jobs. John T. Butler the irs6 yice-3esident cf the Union 10 dc iobs at Buffalo and Rochester, \. Y; liogkin 10 do jobs a. Cleveland, De troit. Davenport, Iowa and Ginc nnati, O.. P4uI j. Merlin of ST. Louis 10 do io5 at Nit. Vernon, Iil., and Fr2nh f. Nebb, of NeN York to do jobs al Worcester, Mass.
 T@o ndictm nts charging consutn- at | OF completed conspiracies al- le2c that ihe job at Mt. Vernon. Tl., was flown up on the night Of \ jrii l9th. that ,he Davenport job, uH&er construction by the company referred to bE Ryan Was avnamitpd June 4th. rhe Peoria .sb, June tth, the eleVe= iand job, June 22nd; the Pittsburgh job. July l5ta and tha br dge was 4ynamited Ut Kansas City oil August .2@rd. The Il slictments containe1 12S counts each, tho most freQuently re- curing of wh' aN was the charge Of vi6l3ung the in erstate-eommerce laws ny transporting dynamite on pass nger trains.
 Tla men were arraigned befere Judge A. B. Anderson, in the Federal Couet of Ind annapolis on Ma.c5 12th. where tsey pleaded not guilty t9 the ,rdictments, and were released GU bail agseeea ng s@40090. The lead CTS ere held iH $10,300 bail each and the minor officials Of the Unior in $ ,o00 bail each,
 At the time of their hearing be- fore udge Anderson attacks from many angles were made upon the indictments charging the defendants with aiding the abboting Ortie Mc- Mani9al. and John J. and James P. McNamara in the transportation of dynamite on passenger trains with being principals with McMani- gal and the McNamaras in the illc- gal acts and with having conspired to violate the statutes prohibiting such transportations.
 Attorneys for the indicted men held that no conspiracy was shown be- cause it was not set out that the defendants had mislabellcd packages of explosives they were alleged to have carried on passenger trains. IL was further argued that the act Of 1908 governing Interstate transDor- l tation of explosives repealed the act of 1866. and that as the indictments cite both acts, the Indictments are GcfeGtiYc. It was also maintancG