The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-10-01
GOVERNMENT Will TRY
TO PROVE CONSPIRACY
Which Resulted in 100 Explosions In
Different Parts of the Country
Senator Kern Represents Defend
ants-Trlal Lasts Weeks.
(By Associated Press.)


ever participated with the McNamara
brothers in the series of dynamite
andA nitroglycerine explosions which
preceded and followed the wreck
ing of the Los Angeles Times build
ing, Oct. 1, 1910, when 21 persons
were killed, the government hopes to
in the trial which begins to-
day before Judge A. B. Anderson OF
fifty-one men.
At the head of the list of defend
ants, who thus are brought into
court exactly two years after the Los
Angeles disaster are:
Frank M. Ryan, president of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Ironworkers.
Ortie e. McManigal, once known ~.
w. McGraw' ON the Pacific coast,
confessed dynamiter and accom-
lice of the Mcnamara brothers, who
has been kept in custody as a wit
ness for the prosecution every since
his arrest in Detroit year ago last
April.
Herbert s. Hoskin, successor of
John J. Mcnamara as the secretary
treasurer of the union, whom Nc
Manigal accuses of being the organ
izer of the "dynamiting crew" and one
of the originators of the alarm clock
scheme by which explosions were set
off several hours after the mine was
placed.
Most of the other defendants are
present or former union officials
whom the government charges were
linked together in conspiracy by an
extensive correspondence from 1905
to 1911, during which time more than
100 explosions In states scattered
from Massachusetts, to California oc-
CURED in works under construction
by employers of nonunion labor.
Fifty-four men were indicted last
February, but John J. McCray, Of
Wheeling, w. Va, has never been
located and the Mcnamara brothers
are in prison In California.
The court room which probably for
weeks will be the scene Of the trial,
has long been ready. Every precau-
tion has been taken to secure quiet.
The windows of a small room, locat-
ed on an outside corner of the second
floor of the federal building, have
been heavily curtained to exclude the
day light. Recently Judge Anderson
had the walls and ceiling thickly
padded with felt to improve the sound
conditions.
United States Senator John W.
Kern has been retained as counsel
for the defendants, while the govern
ment will be represented by District
Attorney Charles W. Miller and his
assistant.
Sixteen defendants were placed un-
der $4,000 bonds each, to appear for
trial and the others each under s5,-
600 bonds, making an aggregate In
| bonds Of $350,000.
Witnesses are to be called from
many parts Of the country. While
1t is not the intention Of the govern
ment to go thoroughly into the cases
which resulted In the Imprisonment
Of the McNamaras. all that part OF the
evidence Of the Pacific coast explo-
sions as pertains to the Illegal In
terstate shipment Of explosives has
been made available to District At
torney Miller.
Each OF the 80 indictments return
ed last February contains charges
against all of the defendants. and the
charges are embraced In three
groups. They are
Transporting dynamite and nitro
glycerine in passenger trains from
one state to another: as Ortie e. Nc
Manigal confessed was done wher
these explosives were carried In SUI
cases from hiding places at Muncie
Ind. Rochester, Pa: Tiffin. o.; anC
! Indianapolis. to cities where "jobs'
A Continued on page two.)