Milford chronicle., 1912-02-16
FIRST ARREST in
DYNAMITE CASE
C. E. DOWd, Of MaGhiniStS' Un-
ion, Taken at Rochester.
OTHER ARRESTS SOON
President Ryan, of Ironworkers' Union,
Said to Be Among Those For Whom
Warrants Were Issued.

Said to Be Among Those For Whom
Warrants Were Issued.
The news of the arrest of Clarence
DOwd, business agent of the Machin-
lists union in Rochester, N. Y, and
the issuance of warrants at Chicago
for President Ryan, Of the Interna-
tional Association of Bridge and
Structural Ironworkers, and r. H.
Houlihan. of the Chicago union, came
as a great surprise to the federal Of
hcials il Indianapolis, Ind.
It was planned to make all the ar
rests of persons indicted by the fed
eral grand jury in the dynamiting
cases simultaneously, and the officials
do not understand how instructions
could have been misunderstood.
United States District Attorney Mil
Ter refused to admit that warrants had
been sent either to Chicago or Roches-
ter, and said that no information would
be given out by him until he was Off
cially informed of the arrests. He
would not deny that Dowd, Ryan and
Houlihan had been indicted.
President Ryan is in indianapolis,
and has been at the office of the Iron
Workers union continuously for sew
eral days He said he did not see why
a warrant should be issued for him in
Chicago, when it was known that he
was in Indianapolis. Ryan refused to
say whether or not he had made prep
Rrations to furnish bond in the event
that he should be arrested, and re-
fused to comment further on the Chi
cago story, which asserted that he and
Houlihan would be the first men taken |
into custody by United States deputy |
marshals.
Ryan travelled a good deal in his ca
pacity as head of tn eorganizing forces
of the union, and in doing so it is
charged came into contact with prac-
tically all the district leaders of the
conspiracy. 1t is said to be charged
that he often consulted with these dis
trict leaders concerning conditions in
their districts and concerning the ad-
of helping them out" with
an explosion or two. Correspondence
between Mcnamara and Ryan and be-
tween Ryan and others, as well as
letters written by other members of
the conspiracy to Mcnamara, are al
legged to show that Ryan kept his fin
ger on operations at all times
He was president of the union,
whose board appropriated the $1,000 a
month to J. J. Mcnamara for organ
zing purposes" this being the fund
rom which the dynamiting expenses
by international headquarters
we're paid. He also signed checks for
expenses, it is charged.
c. E. Dowd, of Rochester, N. Y, is
j business agent of the machinists' To- ,
al in that city, and has served as a
general organizer for the International
association of Machinists. His connec-
ion with the dynamiting conspiracy
s said to have arisen while he was in
Detroit at a time when there were
Rbor troubles on in that city.
It was planned to blow up numerous =
lants and buildings of employers Of
on-union labor in Detroit, and it is
barge that DOwd. who was looking =.
fter the interests of the machinists
! that locality, became engaged in G
he dynamiting plots with several 9TH :
r men His chief connection with the !,
lots is said to have been early ia y
911, only a short time prior to the
rrest of the McNamaras and Nc :,
Ianigal, as it was at that time that II
le Detroit big plot was brewing.