El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-02
Work of Selecting Jury Is
Now Going Forward DIFF
ficulty in Getting Men.

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 2.-Questions
whether they feared for their personal
safety If they served as jurors were
asked veniremen today in the selection
of jury for the trial Of the accused
dynamite plotters."
These questions developed a dispute
between district attorney Charles ".
Miller and United States senator John
". Kern, counsel for the defence.
We'll 1t has been shown here that
one man didn't want to go on the jury
because he feared for his personal
safety" said Mr. Miller.
Bert F. Haynes. owner of a store at
Linton. Ind, said. he did not care to
serve on the jury.
Are you afraid it would hurt your
BUSINESS asked Mr.. Miller.
Yes"
If he is such a coward as that. he
may step aside" said Mr.. Miller.
The Labor Union Question
In one instance Mr. Miller said: La
Dor unions are not on trial here"
Labor unions are not on trial, but
individuals are" said judge Anderson.
1t is competent to question a pros
pective juror as to his relations with
unions, because the relation of the de-
PENDANTS with labor unions is likely to
cut big figure in this case"
Have you any prejudice against
union LAHORE" was the chief question
asked today.
J. NJ. Hatfield, a farmer and country
school teacher, was excused because
he said he had an opinion that the
defendants were guilty.
As former banker. John Burgess, of
Newcastle, Ind, was asked whether
William J. Burns, who arrested McMani-
gal and the McNamaraS, was at present
employed by the American Bankers
association. Burgess said he did not
know.
one man was excused because he
had sons who were members of labor
unions
Already Convinced of Guilt.
Cld you ever read McManigaIs
confession in which he duplicates these
ueLendantS as associated with him in
carrying dynamite and nitroglycerine
about the country" Charles w John
son, a farmer, was asked
Yes l read it. and together with
the fact that the grand jury found in
dictments here convinced me these
men are guilty" he answered
James H. Hurst, another farmer.
sald- The government would not have
TO Introduce any evidence to convince
me these men are guilty. 1 am con-
WINGED already"
Neither side had indicated its accep-
lance as juror any of the first ten
men examined.
Hunting the Witnesses.
SIaI OF government agents scat
tered from Boston to Los Angeles, it
seeking the witnesses who are to ap-
pear for the prosecution in the trial of
the men accused of completely in the
dynamite conspiracy"
one by one, when once the trial be-
gins, a multifariOus crowd is TO be
seated IN the witness box. Train con-
ductors and station checkmen, who
were reported to have handled baggage
containing explosives; boarding house
Keepers in various localities who rent
ed rooms in which plots were said to
have been laid for blowing up bridges
VlaductS and buildings; renters of barns
and empty houses where nitroglvcerin
and dynamite were hidden: stone quar-
rymen who sold fuses and explosives:
jewelers. who sold alarm clocks, and
others in higher and lower stations are
10 be drawn into a great body of wit
nesses by whom the government ex-
poets to prove a conspiracy in which at
equally were guilty.
The fragmentary evidence of all
these people the government con-
tends, will fit in a complete story.
Fifty-One Are On Trial.
whoever participated with the Nc
Namara brothers in the series of dyna-
mite and nitroglycerin explosions
which preceded and followed the
building October 1, 1910, when 81 per-
sons were killed, the government hopes
to disclose in the trial which is now
in progress.
At the head of the list of defendants.
VINO are brought into court exactly two
years after the Los Angeles disaster.
are:
Frank NJ. Ryan, president of the IN
ternational Association of Bridge and |
Structural Ironworkers
Ortie L. McManigal, once known as
j. W. McGraw" on the Pacific coast, |
a confessed dynamiter and accomplish |
or the Mcnamara brothers. who has
oeen Kept in custody as witness for |
the prosecution ever since his arrest |
In Detroit a year ago last April.
Herbert s Hockins successor of John 1