Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-12-11
Business Agent of Detroit Car
penters' Union Taken Into
Custody By United States
Marshal at Indianapolis.
DENIES AUTHORSHIP OF
NOMINATING LETTER
Handwriting Expert Testifies
That Epistle Read in Court
Was Work OF Accused Lab.
or Leader.
[By Leased WIre 10 EyenInE Hcrnldl


IBy Leased Wire 20 Evening HeraIdl
indianapolis, Ind. Dec. u,--will-
lam II. Qulgley. Detroit business agent
ot the carpenters union. today was
held To the federal grand jury on the
charge OF the district attorney that he
had committed perjury IA Il witness
at the Dynamite Conspiracy" trial.
He was taken into custody by a dep
uty United states marshal.
Charges OF forgery developed first
al the Dynamite Conspiracy" trial to.
day over letter alleged by the gov
eminent TO refer to proposed cxplus-
ionS at Detroit IN 1910.
The letter which the government
stated II procured at Detroit ten years
agO. purported to have been written
by Quigley and 20 refer to plots to
unionize building trades in Detroit by
blowing up non union jobs.
Herbert Wood. "a handwriting cx-
pert. testified the letter was Qulgley's
handwriting. Quigley took the stand
and said the handwriting was not his
and that tho signature was II forgery.
District Attorney Miller refused TO dis
miss Quigley. whose arrest followed.
The letter was addressed to Hiram
Cline, Muncie, Ind. national Orga nlzer
for the carpenters union and stated
that tho proposed explosions which
local pfhcials of the carpenters na-
chinlsts and lrOnwOrkers' unions wero
alleged Jointly to have plotted. had
been "called on because Charles
WachtmelHter, an ironworker, had
talked too much"
Qulgley was charged with commit
ting perjury In denying authorship Of
the letter.
II ask that the witness Quiglcy be
recognized by the court as held to the
federal grand jury" said District At
torney e, ". Miller. AS II has been
conCluslvely shown here that perjury
has been committed ask thar he br
held without hearing before ii COM
missioner"
Quigley, presented before Federal
Judge A. ID. Anderson. said he WAS not
In a position to give bond. Ho aC-
cordlngly was taken tu Jail
The letter which QuIglcy denies no
wrote was AS follows:
Wayne County Carpenters District
Council.
Detrrit Mich, 8-si.
Brother H. &. cline: We have
made mistake In our men and II ls
ell on with the big show He has got
In radically wrong and skipped. for he
told me he would do so but he would
not make good cant tell what he
will do. lie has got trimmed twice
since Friday evening by the ironmen,
no they lay for him now | am Civ
ing you straight Was nashing the
century and drunk since you left I'll
last night.
seal
Nv. H. QCIGLEY."
The caption and the world seal" ~
well as the body Of the letter were In
handwriting.
AZ the fourteenth Of the forty -one
defendants TO appear In his own me-
half. Michael j. CunnHne, "A Philndcl-
phia ofiicial OF the International Asso-
citation OF Bridge and Structural Iron
workers, next testified. He asserted
he had been associated with J. J. Nc
Namara. President Frank NJ Ryan
and other officials of the union but he
never had discussed with them any
plans for the use of violence or dyna-
mite on non-uuion jobs,
Before Mcnamara was tai ken 10 I.us
Angeles had YOU any knowledge that
dynamite or hltrOglycerin WAS used on
nOn-uniOn JObs?" asked William A.
Gray counsel for GunnHns.
II never heard Of II til McNamaras
arrest"
Cunnane said his appearance before
the international unions executive
board was not to discuss dyna hitting.
but in connection with proposed "lo-
cal option" for the Philadelphia union
30 tho members mbsht work for con-
tractors who maintained union shops
locally regardless Of the strike.