The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-16
OFFICIALS AIDED
DYNAM|TING PLOT
co n spiracy Had Full
Sanction Of Execu-
tive Board.
PAPER RECORD
is IN EXISTENCE
Sensational and Specific Charges
Against Leaders Of Structural
Iron Workers Made by Dis
trict Attorney-In Posses
sion of 10000 Letters and
kilograms.

indianapolis. Ind. February Is
sensational and specific charges that
the dynum!te conspiracy was conduct
ed with fun knowledge of members Of
the executive hoard Of the 1nterna-
tonai Association OF Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers. including Presi-
dent Frank NJ. Ryan; that the whole
conspiracy. extending over years, was
recorded on paper, and that Ortie L.
McManigal. the confessed dynamitcr
was shifted shuttle-like over the
country on missions of destruction.
we're made public tonight by District
Attorney Charles W. Miller
MF. Miller announced the contents
of an Indictment. known as that COW
erinS ''unconsummattd acts of the
conspiracy. and IL is to he the basis
upon which the government intends TO
conduct its prosecution.
The Indictment charges Ryan. Her
bert S. Hockin. OF Detroit: Michael J.
Young. of Boston; John Z. Butler, of
Buffalo. and Frank c. Webb. OF New
York. with conducting the conspiracy
through the mail. ana names all of the
ifty-fonr defendants as abcttors.
lfnd Regulnr system.
II declares that a regular system
OF pointing out non-union steel and
iron construction Jobs was carried on,
and that the executive members not
only contributed money TO buy eXplo-
sives. but assisted In the work which
McMaa!ga! was 10 do.
The basis OF all the charges lie.
chiefly in 10000 letters and kilograms
taken from the iron workers' interna-
tonal headquarters These letters pur-
port TO be between RYAN. Hockin, Webb.
and various other officials and business
agents.
With the arraignment of the de-
PENDANTS set for March u and a prob
ability OF trials early In May. il was
announced to-day that the government
viii use all consistent speed in prose
cutting the conspiracy cases.
All the efforts OF the indicted men
either individually or Jointly. to secure
delays will be opposed. Judge Ander-
son. who is TO hear tho trials unless q
special Judge takes his place, will
carry the cases right through the sum
mer.
Whether the men are to be triad in
groups, sinEly. or together on the gem
erai conspiracy charge, will be determ-
incd after arraignmcnt.
Reports to-day showed that forty
eight OF the hfty-four men had been
arrest or were In custody Accord
ing to District Attorney Charles w.
Miller, the capture OF so many defend
ants practically With twenty-four
hours set q precedent In Federal
criminal procedure. The six men still
unapr rehended are those the govern
ment counted upon a. being unable TO
find.
IIns 100000 on Hand.
Herbert s. Hockin, second vice-presi-
dent OF the International Association
OF Bridge and Structural Iron Work.
ers, who also succeeded j. j. Nc
Namara, the dynamiter. as secretary
treasurer. said to-day the union had
on. h; d about $4,000. This is being
il creased by a special fund of $1,000
month secured by assessment on the
1900 members.
Hockin, after comforting with Frank
NJ. Ryan, the president. and John 4.
Butler. first vice president, each OF
whom Is indicted and out on $4,000
bond, announced that kilograms had
been sent TO local unions Informing
them that the international Union
would not bear the expense of any at
torneys except such Is Is incurred in
indianapolis.
Almost all the indicted men who are
charged with aiding the aIcNamaras
and Ortie McAIanigal, in causing about
100 explosions against open shop
contractors In the last six years. are
members of the Iron Workers Union
At lenst three defendan.s--lIiram Cline
and Sturgeon =. Meadows, indianapolis
officials of the International Brother
hood of Carpenters and Jolners. and c.
j.. Dowd, Rochester, y. y, of the In.
ternational Machlnists' Union-will
thus be excluded from tho iron work
ers' defense fund. The McNamard
brothers. now in prison in California
and McManigai. in prison on his owr
confession. also indicted. here are, OF
course. not considered
The Federal sr:lnd jury has not beer
discharged. 1t 10 said IL any informa
ton that might be secured through
Questioning the defendants, or through
pleas OF guilty, warrants It, rein.
vestigatIon of the entire conspirac,
will begin.