The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-02
First Sessions of Great Trial
Begun Before Judge
Anderson.
NOT GUILTY ALL PLEAD
Ortie McManigal Will Tell Of
Alleged Dynamite Trans
portation and Plot.

Associated Press Dispatch,
Indianapolis, Ind, Oct, Lines
on which jury is to be chosen for
the trial fof forty-six defendants, ac-
cused Of completely in a widespread
dynamite conspiracy against en-
ployers of non-union labor were In
dicated today in the examination of
veniremen.
Trial was brought before Fedora,
Judge A. B. Anderson and the origi-
nal number OF fifty-four men indiet-
ed, headed by Frank M. Ryan, pres
ident of the International Associa-
tion of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, was reduced to forty-six,
the Judge withdrawing charges
against three men, another defend
ant was absent because of a broken
leg, Critic e. McManigal pleaded
guilty and another defendant was re-
ported mot found" John j. ana
James B. Mcnamara are serving
terms in a prison in California, also
We're reported mot found"
No sooner we're the preliminary
motions ended than Judge Anderson
said: "Call a Jury
Summons have been prepared FOR
from 200 to 400 witnesses. IT is be-
lieved a jury would be completed in
a week Veniremen were examined
by Senator John X Kern and Will
liam M. Harding for the defense, and
by District Attorney Miller for the
government.
Whoever participated with the
Mcnamara brothers in the series Of
dynamite and nitroglycerin explos-
ions which proceeded and followed
the wrecking of the Los Angeles
Times building, Oct. 1, 1910, when
twenty-one persons were killed, the
government is to disclose in the trial
which begins today before Judge A.
B. Anderson of fifty-one men.
Ryan Heads List.
At the head of the list of defend
ants, who thus are brought into
court exactly two years after the Los
Angeles disaster, are:
Frank M. Ryan, president of the
international Association Of Bridge
and Structural Ironworkers.
Ortie E. McManigal, once known
as u. w. McGraw" on the Pacific
Coast, confessed dynamiter and ac-
of the Mcnamara brothers,
who has been kept in custody as
witness for the prosecution ever
since his arrest in Detroit a year ago
last April
Herbert s. Hookin, successor of
John ]. Mcnamara as secretary
treasurer Of the union, whom Me-
Manigal accuses of being the organ
zer of the "dynamiting crew." and
one of the origlnators In the alarm
'lock scheme by which explosions
were set off several hours after the
mine was placed
Most of the other defendants
present are former union officials
whom the government charges were
linked together in a conspiracy by
IN extensive correspondence from
1905 to 1911, during which time
more than 100 explosions in states
from Massachusetts, to Cal
fornia occurred in works under
by employers of nom
lnion labor
Fifty-Four Indicted.
Fifty-four men were indicted last
February, but John J. Mccoy, Wheel
ng, w, Va, never had been located
and the Mcnamara brothers are in
prison in California.
The courtroom, which, probably.
'or weeks will be the scene of the
rial, has long been ready. Every
has been taken to secure
luiet. The windows of the small,
room, located on an outside corner
Of the second floor of the federal
have been heavily cur
.ained to exclude the daylight. Re-
Gently Judge Anderson had the
walls and ceiling thickly padded
with felt to improve the sound CON
iitions.
United States Senator John w
Kern has been retained as counsel
Tor the defendants, while the gov
will be represented by Dis
Lrict Attorney Charles w Miller
and his assistant.
Sixteen defendants were placed
under $4,000 bonds each, to appear
for trial and the others each under
$4,000 bonds. making an aggregate
in bonds OF $sep,o00.
Witnesses ars to be called from
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