Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-02-19
EVIDENCE PILED UP
FOR USE AGAINST
CONSP|RATORs
DICTAGRAPH RECORDS TO
BE USED BY GOVERNMENT
The Forty thousand Letters
Seized From IronworkerS'
Headquarters viii Figure in
Case For Prosecution.

IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire.l
Indianapolis. Feb. lS.--Three kinds
of evidence, IL was learned today. are
beins prepared by the government
for its prosecution OF the fifty-four
men indicted in the dynamite con-
spiracy.
1t was stated by District Attorney
Miller that all this evidence is TO be
corroborated hy witnesses whose
names are already known. The evi-
denoe chiefly is.
About 10000 letters and kilograms
taken from the headquarters of the
international Association of Bridge
iand Structural Iron Workers, which,
according to charges in the indict-
ments, show that President Frank
Ryan. Secretary Hockin and execu-
tive board members corresponded for
six years with business agents of
local unions about Jobs" to be blown
up.
Stenographic records of the tele-
phonic apparatus which the govern
ment had connected with Ryan's
headquarters for more than three
months and through which, IL Is as
serted conversations of the iron
workers officials about the dynamite
conspiracy were overheard and tran
lscribed.
Ortie l.. McManigars confession,
covering his experiences as a dyna-
inter employed by j. j. Mcnamara
from June, 1907, to his arrest last
April.
Mo Manigals confession probably
Will be the basis of the prosecution. 4"
said District Attorney Miller. 1T has
been corroborated In every detail, es-
pecially i'm connection with men who
he asserts assisted him in transpor-
tation OF nitro-glycerine and dyna-
mite. Hotel clerks, railroad men and
wagon drivers from all over the coun-
try have verified his statements as to
where he was in connection with
particular explosions. About 800 of
these witnesses were before the fed
eral grand jury and undoubtedly more
than that number VIII be called at
the trial.
II dislike 10 comment on the gov
QHnlpe mt 4 telephoUic APPARATUS which
was instilied I'm lsyans office one
night last October and by which two
government stenographers In a room
below We're able to record just what
was said in the iron workers head
quarters. but | will say the apparatus
worked satisfactorily and we have ~
great abundance OF notes taken by
that means which undoubtedly Will
be offered as evidence"
Mechanical, now in Los Angeles
will not be arraigned with the other
defendants on March ~, but win be
brought here during the trials, prob
ably in May. IL Is not stated when
McManigal viii be arraigned.
The arrest of J. w. Irwin In Chica-
go today. puts the government In
possession of all but two of the fifty
four man indicted. Those who have
not been apprehended are John J.
McCray, formerly an iron worker at
Wheeling. West Virginia, and Patrick
Ryan, formerly business agent In
Chicago.
Irwin rs named in his indictment as
having been recording secretary and
treasurer of local union at Peoria
in 1908 and 1909. McManigal con
fessed he blew up several places In
and near Peoria after that time. one
Of these was an explosion In Septem-
Der, 1910. when six buildings were
damaged and night watchman was
injured.