The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-12-28

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sands Of dollars worth of propert,
was said to have been destroyed
Finding the maintenance of a hire,
"dynamiting crew" cost money. Nc
Namara is alleged to have appeale,
t. the union for funds, and in thi;
way, the government charged, 9th
ers became implicated. For instance
the government set out that tn.
union executive board decided al
last to allow Mcnamara $1,000 a
month. for which he would be re.
quircd to give no accounting. Let
tors also We're written which, the
government asserted. showed Ger
tain business agents, recognizing
the "dynamiting crew" as a regular
institution, sent word as to what
Jobs should be blown up. All the in
dicted officials we're declared BY
their letters to be linked together
in guilt"
That was the case the government
at the opening Of the trial. asserted
It had to place before the jury. 1t
was stated the trial. in the num-
Der of defendants. in the fact that
the defendants were allied with lab
or unions, in the nationwide extent
Of the conspiracy, and in its rami-
fications, was unprecedented. Nc
Manigal's confession, detailing TWEEN
ty-one explosions which he said he
personally caused, was scrutinized
to determine in what minute parti-
culars corrOborative witnesses were
needed.
The witnesses came from almost
every city. Dozens of them were
brought from the Pacific coast to
remain on the stand only few min
utes. A curly-headed. dimple-
checked girl, CARRIED in pink dress,
was called from North Randall, O..
% point out in the court room Peter
j. Smith and George tNipper) An
derson, of Cleveland, as men she
saw going up a lonely road with Z
box shortly before an explosion at
North Randall. a mechanic came
from Hawaii TO tell Of ovcrhcarin@
certain of the defendants discuss
proposed explosions in Detroit. An
engineer came from Panama to re-
eount his experiences with HOckin.
Men who drove livery wagons. cheek
Toys in railway stations. who cared
Tor suitcases. filled with Internal
machines. hotel clerks who booked"
Tie McNamaras and McManigal for
rooms, detectives. stenOgraphers.
contractors who suffered from ey-
plosions. and telephone operators,
all related piecemeal their knowl-
edge of the defendants converse
tons or movements, which the gov
eminent undertook to weave into
completed story to show at once the
individual guilt OF each. and the
collective guilt of all the defend
aa6.
Ono by one the defendants heard
the charges repeated against them
Tveitmoe heard his name men,
toned often. He was accused rs
having furnished Caplan and
Schmidt to help blow up the Times
lie was named as hav-
ing sent word to Mcnamara the
month after the explosion that
things were all right oh the coast" !
and as having requested the dyna-
riters again be sent to Los Angeles.
ater acknowledging another explo-
son there on Dec. 25, 1910, as "a
christmas present" McManigal said
he called at Tveitmoes office in San
francisco. but met only Eugene A.
fancy there. Anton Johannscn
vas mentioned by witnesses as hay
ng helped Tveitmoe. William J.
Burns testified he told Mayor Alex.
lnder. of Los Angeles, the day after
he explosion. that "Tveitmoe and
'ohannsen were behind it," Testi.
nony about Johannsen was permit
ed on the ground that though not
"he had been shown to
e a conspirator."
OF all the defendants Herbert 3