The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-02-07
Over - Indicted For Dynamitinq
INDIANAPOLIS JURY
ENDS INVESTIGATION
Names and Number of Labor Men
in Conspiracy Suppressed
Pending Arrests.
Strongly Intimated That the Men
Higher Up" Have Escaped
the Net.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Feb. g.
Onion labor officials and agents. said
% number between thirty and forty.
whom the government holds Grimm
ally responsible with tho McNamaras
and Ortie r. McManigal for perpetrat.
Ing more than one hundred explosions
which occurred in cities from Massa-
chusetts to California In the last six
years. and in which the wrecking of
the Los Angeles Times building was
an incident. were indicted to-day.
Thirty-two indictments were re-
turned. Capiases for arrests have
been issued and all the men indicted
are to be taken in custody on a day
secretly fixed by the government, but
known to be within a week March
II has been Set for the arraignment
before Federal jug A. B. Anderson
In Indianapolis. The papers for the
arrests designate the amount OF bond
which the defendants may give in the
federal districts in which they reside
Tor their appearance here. The
amounts OF the bonds in the individ-
ual cases were not made known, but
# was said in the aggregate they
would total 100000.
Names Yet Secret
Although the names OF the defend
ants and their exact number were or
dered withheld pending the arrests. II
was stated probably more than
thirty-two and possibly forty men
were accused, inasmuch as more than
one defendant was named in some OF
the indictments. Almost all the men.
1t was declared. were either union Of
hcials or men who were charged with
aihliating with the dynamiters
Asked II any men higher up" had
been indicted United States District
Attorney Charles W. Miller refused 10
say. lntimation came from another
source, however. that no officials
higher than these who had had head.
quarters in indianapolis, were in
volved.
Frank NJ. Ryan. president of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers. and Her
bert =. Hockin. the secretary-treas-
urer. when informed of the indict-
lnents, refused to comment. except 10
repeat their statements that j. J.
Mcnamara acted on his own respon-
sibility when he organized his "dy.
namiting crew. Hockin succeeded
Mcnamara as secretary-treasurer o-
the association.
Long Inquiry Over.
With the return Of the indictments.
District Attorney Miller completed an
inquiry begun last October. and the
federal grand jury ended six weeks
hearing OF testimony in which. IL is
said. McManigai's confession. given
before the jurors verbally in detail
and involving others. and papers TAX
en from the headquarters OF the Iron
Workers. had important bearing
Those papers. were said not only
10 have shown under what circum-
stances McManigal was induced to
star INTO the dynamitiug business
against open shot" contractors, be-
ginning in Detroit. IN June 1907. but
also to throw light on the 81 .0uU a
month allowed McNamaTa for organ.
ikins purposes
o. took the grand jury ju.t ten min-
Ufc- 20 vote 'hr indictments Armed
with tUO bulgiug suit cases. from
which hey later extracted she indlr'
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