The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-02
PLACED ON TRIAL
FOR DYhAMIIlNG

FOR OYNAMIIIN6
CONTINUED From First PasNl
u. w. McGraw" on the Pacific Coast
Of the McNamara brothers. who has
been kept In custody as 4 witness for
the prosecution ever since his arrest
in Detroit year ago last April
Herbert s. Hookin. successor OF
John J. Mcnamara as secretary-treas-
urer OF the union, whom McManixal
accuses OF being the organiser Of the
"dynamiting crew." and one OF the
ortKtnators of the alarm clock scheme
by which explosives were set on sew
eral hours after the mine was placed.
Most Of the other defendants are
present OF former union officials whom
the government charges were linked
together in q conspiracy by an ex-
tensiye correspondence from 1905 TO
1911, during which time moro than
100 explosions In States scattered from
Massachusetts to California occurred
In works under construction by en-
ployers OF nonunion labor.
F1fty-fosr Indicted
Fffty-four men were indicted last
February. but John J. McCrey. OF
Wheeling, w. Va. never has been To-
Gated and tho Mcnamara brothers are
In prison
Tho courtroom, which probaoly for
weeks will be the scene OF the trial.
has long been ready. Every precau-
ton has been taken to secure quiet.
The windows Of the small room. 10
Gated on an outside corner OF the
second floor Of the Federal building.
have been heavily curtained to exclude
the daylight. Recently, Judge An
ders0n had the walls and ceiling
thickIy padded with felt to improve
the sound conditions
United Statea Senator John W. Kern
has been retained - counsel for ths
defendants. while tho government In
represented by Distyio6 Attorney
Charles w. Miller and his assistant
Sixteen defendants were e. placed
for trial. and the others each under
5000 bonds. making an aggregate in
bonds OF $25o,ooo
many parts Of thu country. While II
II not the intention Of the government
to 90 thoroughly into tho cases which
resulted in the imprisonment Of tho
Mcnamara. all that part OF tho evil
dence OF the Pacific Coast explosions
as pertains to the Illegal interstate
shipment OF explosives has been made
available to District Attorney Miller
Each OF tho thirty-two indictments
returned last February contains
charges against all OF the defendants.
and the charges are embraced In three
groups. They are:
Transporting dynamite and nitro
glycerin in passenger trains from one
State to another, as Ortte E NC
Manigal confessed was done when
these explosives were carried in suit
cases nrom hiding places at Munice.
Ind; Rochester. Pa; Tifin. Ohio. and
Indianapolis to cities where ~jobs'
were to be blown up
Conspiring to violate interstate reg
ulations relative to explosives.
Concealing knowledge OF the con-
sptracy or abetting the Illegal trans
portation Of explosives.
Most OF the explosions OF which the
government has made a record were
directed against members OF the Ma
tional Erectors' Association. an orsa-
nization OF constructors who had
broken OF relations with the union
and were conducting open shops"
The arst explosion or attempt recorded
was at Miller's Falls. Mass. in the
GUNNER Of 1905, and the last October
10, 1911, when. at 2 A NJ near Santa
Barbara, Cal. thirty-nine sticks Of
dynamite with fuse were found be-
meath a bridge Just before q special
train bearing President Taft passed
over Twenty Of the explosions oc-
Cured in Ohio.
Confession II Basis.
McManigaFs confession was the
basis upon which the government
founded its case before the Federal
grand Jury which returned the In
dictmente. And 1t IS expected to fig
ure prominently in the present trial
In It McManigal confessed:
That Hockiu came to him in De-
troit in 1897 and induced him to blow
up a lob" there, afterward paying
hin, a regular fee Of s125 for each job
McMantgal had worked in a stone
quarry, and, he said, It was because
OF his familiarity with explosives that
he was selected.
That Hockin accompanied him on
trips and pointed out works that were
TO be blown up. afterwards introduc-
ing him to James B. Mcnamara. who
became McIanigars "team-mate" In
the dynamiting business.
That on instructions from Hockin
he ne: Michael j. Young, a member OF
the executive board In Boston, and
Frank o. Webb, in New York, about
Jobs that were to be blown up near
those cities.
That Hockin wired him at Chicago
to return to Indianapolis in February.
1910, where he, Hockin and J. ]. Nc
Namara talked over new iave9-
ton which consisted Of using al or
binary alarm clock as timer for
fuses. 1T was a scheme by which We
could set a bomb and then be miles
away when the explosion occurred
and so prove an alibi." said McManigal
McManigal also confessed that ex-
olosives were hidden in various parts