Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-07-11
HARTMAN IS emphatic.
DENIED HE HAD KNOWLEDGE OF
TIE DISASTER 10 TIE
TIMES BUILDING.
BLANES POLITICAL enemies
Declares "Dircct Acli0nists' In Social
ist Party Tried 10 Have Him
Indicted by the Jury.

Los ANGELES, July l0.-Durlng
cross examination today job Harri-
man, socialist leader Of national
prominence, in the bribery trial oil
Clarence $. DarrOw, intending TO snow
that an effort had been made by poH-
tical enemies 10 indiCt Hartman Tor
completely In the dmamiting OF tho
Los Angeles Times building months
after the Mcnamara brothers had con-
fessed and since the barrow trial pc
gan.
1t was day Of striking Incidents,
beginning with the retirement under
fire of Deputy Sheriff Martin Agulrre,
formerly warden of san Quentin prls-
on, who had been in charge OF the
Jury since the beginning of the trlal,
complaint havins been made that ne
was friendly with the defense Al
though no was eXOnTated By tne
court from any suspicion Of wrong.
the incident evoked a long period OF
oratory in which the jurors partici-
pated in defense of Aguirre.
Hartman Was Startled.
No one in the court room apparent
IL was more startled tfan Hartman
when he was questioned as " ms
knowledge Of the dynamiting OF the
Times building. The district attor-
ney declared, in reply to an obJecton'
that he was seeking to show that Har-
rimans relations with the dynamiters
were more damaging than those OF
attorney" and that his connection
with the jury bribery trial was more
akin to that of defendant This
statement was made after Hartman
had been asked concerning conVersa-
tions with Edward Adams Cantrell
and Frank b. Merriam in which no
was alleged to have admitted prior
knowledge that the Times building
was to have been dynamited.
Hartman, according to the ques-
tion read by Attorney Frederlcks, had
said to Cantrell at San Luis Obispo,
Cal. the day after the Times was
blown up, referring to the disaster:
ut means that the boys are on the
job
Gives Party History.
Hartman denied emphatically ever
making such Il statement. He said he
knew the men had gone before the
grand jury with such stories. Then
he told of the trouble in the socialist
party, which had changed Cantrell
and Merriam from his ardent support
ers to bitter enemies.
After receiving permission from the
court to make statement Hartman
went at length into the division in
the socialist party because those faV-
orng direct action and those who faV-
ored peaceful means, such as political
action. to advance reform contemplat-
ed by socialism.
In defending himself against the
inference by Fredericks that the break
between himself and Cantrell was
caused by Harriman's advocacy or
violence, the witness, in a reproachful
tone, said the district attorney knew
better; that in the twenty three times
he had forwarded the socialist propa-
ganda of socialism he had advocated
political action against the radical
element in the recent socialist national
convention at Indianapolis and the
subsequent defeat of those who ad-
vocated sabotage
Hartman had never said to Can
trell that he had known for some time
that preparations had been made to
pull off that job and said he had
not told Merriam that the boys
Knew in advance all about the plot to
dynamite the Times
Frank f. Wolfe, newspaper man
and candidate for the city council on
the socialist ticket during the Harri-
man campaign, testified he had an
office in the suite occupied by the
Mcnamara defense adjoining that OF
Hartman and that on the morning
Bert Franklin was arrested he did not
see Franklin or Hartman in the Of
fices.
According to witnesses he had been
with Darrow during the time Frank
lin had asserted he had received the
alleged bribe money from Darrow.
Wolfe was under cross examination
when adjournment was taken.