Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-10-01

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 1.-Statior
ed within a rail in the small cour
room where they occupied almost hal
the space, the defen dants charged
with completely in the Mcnamara dy
Mantle plots" were placed on trial to
day before Federal Judge Albert b
Anderson, who ordered called 'con
solidated case No. 3, the United States
vs.. Frank NJ. Ryan, ct al.
On motion of the government
against j. w. Irwin, Peoria. Ill; An
drew Kavanagh, Springfield, H.; ant
Patrick Fl. Ryan, Chicago, We're dis
missed.
/ The government announced 1t haC
no evidence against them to warrant
their trial All of the men had beer
identified with the Iron Workers un
ion. At the outset, Ortie E. McMani
gal pleaded guilty.
Eugene A. Clancy anG Olaf A. Tveit
moe, Of San Francisco, pleaded not
guilty. All the other defendants at
their arraignment last March, had
pleaded not guilty Fifty defendants
were in court.
A motion to set aside the order con
solidating the cases made on behalf
OF the defendants was sustained. This
separated the various indictments but
left the defendants to be tried to-
gether.
McManigal, aged about 40 years
short chubby and of a tlorid com.
piexion, entered the court room grin
ming His eyes twinkled keenly az
he glanced at the other defendants
He closely scrutinized one by cne
those with whom he asserts he was
once associated, but against whom hs
row is arraigned as a prosecuting
witness. AS he looked not a sign O
| recognition other than McManigal''
( irscrutable grin passed between
| them.
"Ortie E. McManigal, do you plead
guilty or not guilty, to the charges
against you?" asked Judge Anderson
The scene was dramatic. All the
windows of the court room had been
curtained to exclude outside annoy
ance and the padding on the walls
to deaden the noise, seemed to in
tensify the silence. A score of at
torneys leaned forward to hear the
prisoners reply.
McManigal rubbed the back of his
hand across his chin and grinned
again.
Il plead guilty. your honor.7
McManigal's plead qualified him as
witness for the government, for
which purpose he had been imprison-
ed for 1S months. But it occasioned
no surprise, for he already had con-
fessed to his operations as member
of the Mcnamara "dynamiting crews y
"We ask for separate trial for
each of the defendants" announced
Attorney Hovey.
What reasons have you for that?"
asked Judge Anderson.
Because some defendants are
charged with overt acts of carrying
dynamite and nitroglycerine and some
Will anu dUCtIlLS5 IhShullisoci'
"Overruled," said the court.
Another motion by District Attor.
ney Miller for a consolidation of the
case was sustained with the under
standing that the government select
a definite number of counts which
we're to stand, dismissing all the 9TH
er counts.
Mr. Miller said the government
would elect to try the defendants
each on the counts.
Five counts charging conspiracy.
Fifty counts charging direct viola
ion.
The work of selection of jury be-
gan.
Whoever participated with the Nc
Namara brothers in the series of dy-
,amite and nitro-glycerine explosions
which preceded and followed the
vrecking of the Los Angeles Times
October /, 1910, when Fl
,ersons were killed, the government
lopes to disclose in the trial which |
,egins today before Judge A. B. An
Ierson of 81 men.
At the head of the list of defend
nts, who thus are brought into court
xactly two years after the Los An
,eles disaster are:
Frank M. Ryan, president of the
Association of Bridge
nd Structural ironworkers.
Ortie E. McManigal, once known
IS u. w. McGray'' on the Pacific
cast. a confessed dynamiter and ac-
of the Mcnamara brothers.
sho has been kept in custody as wit
ess for the prosecution ever since his
rrest in Detroit year ago last April.
Herbert s. Hockin, successor OF
ohm J. Mcnamara as secretary-treas-
rer of the union, whom McManigal
ccuses of being the organizer of the
dynamiting crew." and one of the
riginators of the alarm clock
cheme by which explosions were set
fl several hours after the mine was
laced.
Most of the other defendants are
resent or former union officials