Arizona republican., 1912-02-07
Government is Making Ar engagements for Simultan- eous Arrests of the Men Who Are Charged With Conspiracy
BONDS AGGREGATE
 STUPENDOUS SUM
Indictments Are Based or Explosions in Seventeen States Resulting From War Extending Over Many Years

1 l.fSSocidfed PscSS DNPdichi
 INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 6.-Cnion Ia- Tor officials and agents. said 10 num- brr between thirty and forty whom the government holds criminally re spoastDl with the McNamaras and McManisaI for perpetratiEs more than a hundred explosions in cities from Massachusetts Jo California the last six years. including the wrecking or tLe Los Angeles Times building. were Indicted t1Gar Th5rty two indict- meuj- were returned Capiases for arrests have been issued and all men indicted will b. take~ into custody ou tho day secretly fix. by the govern wrvt 5rt known rr 2" within q week
 NIr-4 I- i~ -ue ..Iv sel for arraign- l"snt by Federal 1u:gr \ r Ander- ~gr. Papers for arrests 5-si -nate th-A amount 0f bond which t}e Gofsndants may give in the federal districts where they live and are sand Co aggregate S3o00ro. Some indictments include mere than one defendant and possi- h. forty are accused.
 Asked iif any .Iev higher ID" Were Indicted United Sta. Attorney Nil Ter refused Co sJ.. .s- intimatic1 came from another s.u~... however. that m official HigH-r t... those win" had ,'. ..'...4--s-- .. g.. rr5n,as k ipvolv- .... trarr F president of the ...r.e-t.. ..-ra. G.. Workers and Her bert <. H, l,iu. secretary treasurer, when formed .f tha indictments r-- fused to comment except to repeat tr-ir statements that J. J. McNamara acted ou his o,,u responsibility when hs organized HiS "iru-"'itiug crew Haekiu Sucer-d-d NcNsmara a~ ssc- rotary V5-r the rlty-u s- -t. irJieJ- meuts Miller has completed t7 inquiry which began in October The federal grand. jury has snded 90 siN weeks bearing of testimony in which it is said NcNauieIl's coSfeS~ipn. given by hin before th- jurors and involving ptEer-. and papers ta ken from the rt the irunWoTberS. had au important beariug These papers jt is s8id not only have shown under what circumstances NcJ&nigaI was induced to start iu the '.namite busi- utSS gains, U." open shop" contrac- tors Deginuu- in Detroit in June. 1907. but al~" throw light on the thou sand dollar~ ., month allowed McNa- mara for organizing purposes. It took the grand jury ten minutes to vote on the indictments.
 Arme,i with TWO buising suit eases fiom which they later extracted in- GictmentS. some of which are two or three inches thick. the grand jury filed into court at 2:lc. After receiving the report Judge Anderson thanked the jurors but didn't dismiss them stating they may be called m Aay. After a conference with the jmiSe Miller said there will be some delay in forwarding copies of the indictments 5cca there are 5000 sheets that had tp tr tram scribed He said arrests u'ay not be made before Saturday or even Mon day
 INDIANAPOLIS. Feh. 6.-FuIly one hundred explosions ot dynamite. at points scattered over scvente,r states, and covering peri"l from the sum- mer of 1905 tn october l6. 1911. when .'vuamit,. was found beneath a bridge near santa Barbara Catif.. just before President Taft's special train passed over it were inquired into by the fed eral grand jury which has investigated vhat the government has regarded as .. u1tiur- wide dynamite conspiracy.
 It has heen the theory of the gov crnm,ut that all of these explosions were ibteipI"d to mtimidate euplcvera and n1n-rnipu yyorkingreu with ths general intent tn abolish the so-ca-l,I open shop and compel submission 7o the derrands of certaip lahor organi- zati"ns. more particularly the Inter national Juiou of tl'e Bridge and Structural Iron Worker~
 The states in which explosions oc- cr,r~-' were p'.'o 'rS:rra V';uoss. J,rns, ,;yania. &ee- YorE. New Jersey. N'J''ylaIlj To1n-cticut. Nia.s... 1ussrrs. -iI.LiSen. Ni-.OnSIh. .I.SS.-ri, Iowa. .N -br,ska. Utah. california and Wash iESJou. ohio. with twenty explosions. had more thsn any other one state. Illinois Indiara and New York follow in orjer in respect of the number of the explosions.
 There were two explosions in 19oS nine in I90s: six in 1907; twenty-six in 1908: twenty in 1909: twenty-five in 1910. and thirteen in 1911. These fig ures are exclusive of the explosion which wrecked the Los Angeles Times plant and resulted in the confessions ai.d imprisonment uf the brothers John q. and James E. McNamdrsl. John J. McNamara Was secretary treasurer of the Iuterna tioual Association of Bridge ard Structural Iron Workers.
 The preliminary exhibit of facts and
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