Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-21
Alleged Dynamiter Said to Have Planned to Destroy
 Rice Mill Has Hearing.
DENIES THE CHARGE
Receipt For Dynamite and Caps iy Found On His Person Rut lic
 Says He Found Ii.

man, who was arrested by local auth critics several days ago in connection with the alleged dynamite plot at Stuttgart, was held to await the action of the federal grand jury by United States Commissioner A. l.. Burnett at the preliminary hearing in this city yesterday morning. Bond was fixed in the sum of 5000 and Attorney II. K. | Toney, who appeared for Edmunds expects to make security and have his client released today. E,dmunds is dynamite from one state to another, which is a violation of a federal stat ute.
 A. J. Liedtke, on whose farm the dynamite was found, was the princi- pal witness for the government While the government failed to prove that Ednunds was directly guilty of the of fense, the evidence, of a circuns tan- tial nature, was sufficient to justify lllc oolllllloeloIlei lo Hulu E4lnlullus.
 Several things tend to incrimnate Edmunds, the principal one being that a bill Of ladng or receipt was obtain- ed from him by the local police for a l quantity of dynamite, with fuse and caps, shipped from St Louis firm to l E. c. Richards at Little Rock. Ed munds admits being i'll Little Rock but explains his possession of the bill of lading by saying that he picked it up on the streets of the capital city
 Liedtke S testimony was chiefly in regard to Edmund's s suspicious actions since his return from Woodhall. H., his home. Liedtke admitted that Ed munds had made his home at his i (Liedtke s) house at different periods, for the past several years, and furth- CT stated that they had never had any trouble :EC9
 Several other witnesses among them being k. k. Shukey, A. w. Lowe, a constable at Stuttgart; D. P. Ball, George Judd and Arthur BanWell, all of Stuttgart, were examined and their l testimony corroborated LiedtAe's to the effect that the dynamite was found in Liedtke's barn, but otherwise was of little importance.
 Edmunds. who is of Swedish des- cent, is of prepossessing appearance
 He denies the chargepand says that it came about through Liedtke being wrought up over the discovery of the explosive on the premises. He says branch house of the Fairbanks Morse Company, at Stuttgart, and traveled over the rice section repairing en- gines and pumps. He accounts for
 the heavy grip which aroused Liedtke's suspicious. by saying that he frequently carried a supply of tools He had just returned rom Woodhall, H., and went to Little
 Rock to see a specialist though he did not say from what malady he
 was suffering. He came to Pine Bluff
 to see physician after he found that the Little Rock man was out of town. Edmunds makes fayoraD ole impress sion in telling his story and Chief of
 Police Evan Parnell, who has had
 charge of him since his arrest, said
 he was an ideal prisoner and express
 ed the opinion that the charge would
 come to naught Edmunds named sey-
 eral prominent men of Stuttgart and
 declared they were his personal
 friends. He says he intends to go
 back to Stuttgart when he is released and transact. such business as is ne- cessary.
 Commissioner Burnett says the evi-
 dence is purely circumstantial but
 was enough to hold Edmunds.
 Dynamite In Suitcase.
 According to visitors in the city
 yesterday from Stuttgart fifty-seven
 sticks of dynamite were found in a barn in the rear of Liedtke's home which was near two big rice mills Liedtkes wife saw Edmunds carry a suitcase into the barn during the day and his queer actions later prompted , her to grow suspicious and she inves- . tigated. She reported the matter to her husband, who went to the barn l during Edmunds' absence and found l fifty-seven sticks of sixty percent pure dynamite attached to an ingen- ; Lious contrivance. A candle, which l was to set off the explosives, was at : tached to a fuse, connected with the l dynamite sticks. They were discon- 5 nected by Liedtke and the matter re- r ported to others. A guard was plac- led in the barn aud,e according to the