The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-22

ONE KILLED HIMSELF
Rice Alleged to Have Sold the Stuff
to Those Who Put 1t Where
Police Could
Find It.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
BOSTON, Sept. 21--William H.
Rice, wealthy quarryman of East Mil
ton, today was indicted in connection
with the alleged dynamite planting"
in the Lawrence textile strike. The
grand jury, in returning the bill
against Rice, reported to the court
that it had completed the investiga-
ton.
1t is charged that Rice sold dyna-
mite to Ernest Pitman the mill build
er, who committed suicide several
weeks ago, after being served with a
grand jury summons. The grand jury
had indicted three others, charging
them with being instrumental in
planting" dynamite to discredit the
Lawrence textile strikers, as follows:
William W. Wood, president of the
American Woolen Co.--the woolen
trust; Frederick Atteaux, head of the
| Textile Mills Supplies Company;
Daniel Collins, the Cambridge dog
! fancier.
| The last indictment today was sec
ret, but Rice was soon taken into Gus
/ tody on a capias He said he was very
! much surprised and refused to discuss
| his arrest. Pitman, who was a con-
| tractor and built the Wood Worsted
Mills at Lawrence, went to the rear of
i his garage in Andover, Mass, Aug. 81
and shot himself 1t later was learn.
IL. A ~
had caused grand jury summons to
be issued for the builder
4 1t is now alleged that Rice sold thu
dynamite to Pitman, and that Pitman
4 placed it in the hands of John j.
1 Breen, Lawrence superintendent OF
schools, who was hired to do the
actual planting. Breen was arrested
but failed to take the stand and was
fined $500. Shortly after the death
of Pitman, the head OF the wool trust
| Millionaire Wood, who came to this
country as an immigrant, was indict-
ed and arrested. He pleaded not gull
4 ty, vigorously protested his limo
cence of the alleged plot and was re
8 leased on bond.
Preparations today were under way
at Salem for the trial sept. so of Ettor
and Giovannitti, the Italians held
many months in jail, charged with the
murder of woman in the textile
strike. The l. w. w. have raised a
4 $4,000 defense fund and William d
i Haywood, national organizer, of the
H. w W., himself under $1,000 bond
to answer a charge of conspiracy in
connection with the strike, has order
ed a general strike of all l. w. w
sympathizers on the day set for the
trial
The contention of the defenders ot
Ettor and Giovannitti is that the wo
man was shot by the police The wo
man was killed January IS and the Ital
ians were arrested January 80 They
3 have been in jail ever since, without g
hearing of any kind. The men tech
nically are charged with being acces
sories before the fact of murder il
the first degree. the prosecution alleg
ing that they lncited riot, which re
} suited in the death of the woman. The
men on the other hand alleged thu
authorities stirred up the troupIe.
1t was announced tonight tha
counsel for Ettor and Giovannitti pla1
to open their fight Monday in th'
superior court by asking for bill o
particulars District Attorney Atwill
it was said, will vigorously oppos,
i the request. The principal complain
to be urged by the defenders Of Etto
), and Giovannitti is that the Italian
Y strike leaders have been kept in jai
D for eight months without hearing.