Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-12-28
quested pending the hearing.

quested pending the hearing.
Kline, formerly organizer of the
Carpenters union of Detroit, auG
Tveitmoe, secretary of the California
building trades council, were the only
men convicted who were not mem
bers of the Iron Workers union.
1t was scene blended with trag-
edy that confronted those who week
after week sat through the historic
dynamite conspiracy" trials
Now II was baby crying from
the rear Of the court room, where
the wives and children of the de-
PENDANTS sat; now 1t was the heavy
voice of a man seated in the witness
chair and defending himself against
the charges OF nationwide con
spracy, in which officials Of union
labor were deeply concerned. Wit
nesses from near and far came and
won't, bdt those whose fate rested
with the jury remained there. listen
ing to the accusations and to the oft
repeated story OF the killing OF II
people in the Los Angeles Times ex-
plosion.
The court room itself seemed a fit
+ ting setting for that sombre story
+ Surrounded by great marble pillars
with the daylight shut out by heavy
curtains. and the judge installed be
fore an allegorical painting OF JUS
tice, that. court room day after day
echoed the stories OF violence, oi
the discovery of burnt fuses and
bursted Internal machines, of mid
night visits by mysterious men il
alleys. in empty houses, in lonely
country roads. or on the tops o
buildings
The vision of dark spectre will
la bomb under his arm became
familiar image in the minds of thos'
who listened Back of the railings
amid the spectators. sat the relative
sof the defendants. Three rows dee
across the room were the defendants
Among the score of attorneys sa
, perhaps the most picturesque defend
, ant, massive in build, florid in con
lplexion. always studiously occupied
now copiously filling his note boo
when the testimony was exciting
new, when the trial Jagged, buryin
his specialized nose in Latin rel
sion of Omar Khayyam. lie wa
Olaf A. Tveitmoe of San Francisco
7 Another man toward whom the eye
J If the spectators often strayed wa
= Herbert S. Hockin He sat apar
between bailiffs, during much of tn
trial. for he had been branded b
J the court as "a man who could NJ
n be trusted by any one. II was HOE
g in who was named as having promo
/ ed the dynamiting business; It wa
+. Hockin who was accused OF mol
ing out" on the pay of the dynaml
ers. Il was he who was said to ha'
= caused a quarrel in the ranks OF Il
n McNamaras and McManigal. and
was he who finally was charge
with "betraying for his own gan
! those with whom he once associate
a and with whom he was affiliated
n the Iron Workers union.
= GRAY haired and old beyond .
years sat Frank NJ Ryan, PRESIDE
= Of the Iron Workers union, by vlrt
le of which office he was ieauer
national labor circles, with a seat
~ the council of the American Fedel
l. ton of Labor.
= McManigal, the self-confessed dyI
'e miter. for weeks occupied the
he ness stand, relating, calmly, decl
Ill lively and without any apparent C
TO cern for himself narrative oil
"A lence seldom equalled.
~ And what we're the antecedents
this trial?
.ft Back in the summer of 1905 dy
Ik. mite was found at New Haven, Cor
on a lob on which non-union wo
a men we're employed. Later the Il
RS Workers union called a strike
iff several contractors. and the sur
became general. This was the
ginning. according to the governm'
7's and it spread until Mcnamara org
lN lied "dynamiting crew" Altoget
len 100 explosions occurred, those at
As Angeles being among the numbe
- Two striking condolences atten
b, the trial. =,
sta One was that on October l, l
vds exactly one year after the Los A
les Times building was blown
a., with a loss of q lives, the fed
'n authorities at Indianapolis first
De sidered the possibility oil pros
re- tions for illegal interstate shlpi