The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-12-28
Witnesses From Many Cities.

every city. Dozens of them were
brought from The Pacific coast to re-
main on the stand only few minutes
A curly headed. dimpled- checked girl
CARRIED in pink dress, was called
from North Randall, o., to point out
IN the court room Peter J. Smith and
George (Nipper) Anderson, OF Cleve-
land, as the men she saw going up a
lonely road with a box shortly before
| an explosion at North Randall A
mechanic came from Hawaii to tell OF
Cverhearing certain % the defendants
| discuss proposed explosions i'm Detroit
An engineer came from Panama TO re
count his experiences with Hockin
| Nen who drove livery wagons, check
| boys in railway stations, who cared for
suit-cases, filled with internal ma
chimes, hotel clerks who booked the
| McNamaras and McManigal for rooms
detectives, stenOgraphers. contractors
who suffered from explosions. and tel
cphonc operators all related piecemeal
| their knowledge of the defendants con
vcisatiOns or movements, which the
government undertooK To weave into a
completed story to show at once
The individual guilt of each, and the
collective guilt of all the defendants.
one by one the defendants heard
the charges repeated against them,
1veitmoe heard his name mention,d
often. He was accused as having fur
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blow up the Times" building. He was
named as having sent word to Me
Namara the month after the explosion
that things were all right on the
coast" and as having requested tn
dynamters again be sent to Los An
geles. later acknowledging another eX-
plosion there on Dec. 25. 1910. as -
Christmas present" McManigal sale
he called at Tveitmoe's office In Sai.
Francisco, but met only Eugene \.
Clancy there. Anton Johansen was
mentioned by witnesses as having
helped Tveitmoc william J. Burns
testified he told Mayor Alexander, of
Los Angeles. the day after the en-
plosion. that "Tveitmoe and Johannsep
were behind it," Testimony about
Johannsen was permitted on the
ground that though not a defendant,
"he had been shown to be con
spirator.'
Hockin is Most Conspicuous.
j. +. Munsey, salt Lake city, was
charged with harboring the Los An
geles dynamiter for two weeks. A
tailor in Salt Lake City said he al
tered clothes for the dynamiter, and
other witnesses said they saw Munsey.
also known as Jack Bright" and Nc
Namara together.
Clancy was again mentioned as be-
ing in Boston when the Pacific coas,
explosion occurred. and as hurryinS
west after telegraphing Clean house
meaning, as the government charged,
To destroy evidence. II. w. Pohlman.
Of Seattle, was mentioned as bringing
Mcnamara and Clancy together in that
city.
Of all the defendants Herbert >.
Hockin was probably the most con-
spicuous in the testimony
The story of Hockin. as told. was;
AS an organizer for the union he in
duced McManigal to do dynamitinS.
Then he began to hold out on the
pay allowed McManigal for jobs. This
resulted i'm quarrels. and the McNa-
maras decided to have little to do with
him Knowing this. Hoclin went to
a contractor in Pittsburgh and bctray-
ed the dynamitcrs. That was before the
loss of life at Los Angeles Later
Hockin worked for Burns, while stiil
remaining as an official of the union.
and when the federal grand jury be-
gan work in indianapolis. Hockin took
to the government.
The testimony at the trial resulted
in the increasing Of Hockin's bonds SO
that ne was confined to Jail. Hockin
a asserted TO those for whom he was ac-
cused of acting as "A spy, that he took
no part in dynamiting. but witnesses
from Muncie, Ind, and at Cincinnati
pointed him out az the man to whom
theey actually sold explosives.
Mechanical Accuses Hockin.
IIockin again was the man most
mentioned by McManigal. After ne
had induced me TO blow up job IN
Detroit i'm 1907" said McManigaL
"UockIn told me there was no use Oh
nv attempting to quit now. as they
had the goods on me- ! asked him
who was going to pay me for my
work. He said the executive board had
GO, aside a limited fee of sl2b Tor
bach iol and expenses. ! told him IL
u,as too little for n thing like that |
lilo REPLIED my family would be taken
care Of II anything happened so
wen, to Bloomvilie. Ohio. and got an
order from Nat France to BIZ carey,
who WAS keeper Of n magazine where
dvnamlte was stored for use In a stone
marry and they let me have some
v,ithout knowing what | was going TO
Ia with II used IL to blow up u
derrick at clinton Iowa. Feb. 10. lpoS.
"Hockin two weeks later visited me
,ga,p I'm Chicago and said he did not
have enough money To pay expenses
for the clinton job. but for me to go
IN tho hall of the local union. when
| gent there the secretary. II. n. Hou.
,,,o, nave me an envelope containing
80. rt,,tib,p said. There IL money |