Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-04
Frederick Atteaux, Close
Friend, Also Arraigned
in Case.
LATTER HAS BEEN SICK
Enters Plea of Not Guilty, but
Reserves the Right to
Change 1t.

Boston, Mass, Sept. 4.-William NJ.
Wood, president of the American
Woolen company-the wool trust
was arraigned in the Suffolk county
superior court yesterday. He pleaded
not guilty to a charge of conspiracy
TO plant dynamite at Lawrence for the
purpose of discrediting the strike
leaders and was held in S5, 1000 bail for
trial.
With him was arraigned Frederick
Attsaux. close friend and dealer
in dyestuffs and other mill supplies.
Atteaux was named in an indictment
returned last week. but the Massachu-
setts contempt laws forbade his name
being published before he was arrest
ed He surrendered yesterday, illness
having kept him home for the last
few weeks. The offense of which he
is accused is the same as that alleged
against Wood. Atteaux also pleaded
not guilty and gave $4,000 bond for
appearance. But he reserved the right
to change his plea.
COLLINS ADMITS GUILT.
Dennis ]. Collins of Cambridge, who
is accused of having taken the dyna-
mite to Lawrence from Quincy, Mass,
when asked to plead. said:
Il am guilty, l guess-the way they
put it up to me-"
Collins plea startled the spectators
| By suggestion of the prosecutor, how
ever, plea of not guilty was entered
and Collins, being unable to furnish
bail, was remanded to the Tombs His
plea is explained by the reason that
he Is expected to be star witness for
tho state. In fact. with the expecta-
ton that he might be induced to take
such, action. District Attorney Pelle-
tier had his bail reduced to $500.
Meanwhile two Investigations Of
other phases of the dynamite planting
are In progress. Mr.. Pelletier is pre-
pairing to present to the Suffolk coun-
ty grand jury evidence against other
mill men in which a reporter for a
Boston paper is involved. This re-
porter was an intimate friend of Law
renee mill officials and of John J.
Breen, a Lawrence undertaken, who
was convicted of planting dynamite
and fined $500.
| HAS FULL ACCOUNT.
AS soon as the explosive had been
discovered In tenements of Lawrence
strikers after Breen had described its
location to the police, the Boston pa
per appeared upon the streets of Law
renee, 80 miles away. with a full ac-
count of the affair. 1t is the theory OF
the prosecutor that Breen told the re-
porter in advance and that perhaps the
reporter had another motive in the
, matter than obtaining an exclusive
piece Of news.
United States District Attorney
French, acting on orders from Wash
ington, has started an investigation OF
the shipment OF dynamite on the
, trucks Of freight car that passed
through Lawrence on the way to Phil
adelphia. The car contained wooden
goods and 15 sticks of the explosive
were found under 1t.
This happened several weeks after
Breen had been arrested, so that the
: general opinion was that the sticks
had been planted under the car as the
explosive was placed in Lawrence
tenements. Prominent mill men will
be summoned before tho federal grand
} jury next week.
DECLARE THEIR INNOCENCE.
Wood and Atteaux gave out state
mcnts declaring their innocence
would be established beyond a doubt
a tho proper time.
According TO the evidence in the
hands OF the Suffolk county prosecut-
or. T}reen received $500 for his part
IN the affair He went 10 the Office
of one prominent mill man and while
be was there this official talked with
another mill man over the telephone
about the arrangements. The money
vas dropped on the street and then
picked up, it is said. This was learned
by the prosecutor from +. ". Pitman.
mill builder. who committed suicide
3 just before he was TO appear before
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