El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-11
SAYS HARTMAN KNEW
BARROW WAS SUSPECT
Additional Testimony Is
Given by Wolf IN
DarrnM Trial.

] Los Angeles, Calf, July 11.-Frank
e Wolfe testified on redirect examl-
| nation in the bribery trial OF Clarence :t
/ s barrow today that he had Ilrst
/ learned Of the attempt 10 lnYolEe 60; Ia
| row in the alleged jury DrlDlnS
| through Job Hartman. The latter, ne
| said. had obtained that information
] from assistant district attorney Ford;
4, Ford asked the witness why ne did
! not come to the district attorney
| office and tell him that DarroW ha9
| been with the witness during the morn
! ing Franklin was supposed TO nave re-
! ceived the alleged bride money.
! 1T never occurred to me to go TO
! the district attorneys office with any
| information" replied Wolfe L tnouSnt
! that office was well enough Tortured
with an efficient corps OF detectives
/ and dictagraphs.
morning of Franklin's arrest Harrl-
| man had given the witness S5CO IN SoId
| to pay a note. He cOrroborated tne tes-
tlmOny of Hartman and ldenIlIleu the
| note which is a defence exhibit Rus
sell was Harrimans secretary during
! the Mcnamara case.
On cross examination Russell was
asked many questions regarding the IN
Ter workings OF the Mcnamara defence
Effort Made to Indict Hartman.
During the course of the eXamlna-
ton of Job Hartman, Socialist
leader of national prominence, IN the
bribery trial of Clarence 5. DaroW,
it developed that an effort had been
made by political enemies to indict
Hartman for completely in the dyna-
hitting of the Los Angeles Times
building, months after the Mcnamara
brothers had confessed and since the
Darrow trial began.
No one in the court room apparently
was startled more than Hartman
when he was questioned by the dis
trict attorney as to his knowledge OF
the dynamiting of the newspaper
plant.
The district attorney declared in re-
ply to an objection by the defence that
he was seeking to show that Harri-
mans relations with the dynam1ters
were more damaging than those OF
attorney" and that his connection with
the jury bribery trial was more akin
10 that of defendant"
This statement was made after Har-
riman had been asked concerning con-
versatiOns with Edward Adams Can
tren and Frank b Merriam in which
he was alleged to have admitted pr1-
or knowledge that the Times build
ing was to have been dynamited. It
was Cantren, Socialist candidate
for office during the last municipal
campaign, and Merriam the Secre-
tary- treasurer Of the state Socialist
party, who, according TO Hartman,
went before the grand jury last month
and gave information which they
hoped would result in Harriman's in
Hartman, according to the ques-
lions read by district attorney Fred
ericks had said to Cantreu at San
Luis Obispe Calf, the day after the
Times was blown up, referring to the
disaster: 1T means that the boys are
on the job Hartman emphaticaly
denied ever making such a statement.
He said that he knew the men had
gone before the grand jury with such
stories Then he narrated the trouble
in the Socialist party which had
changed CantrelI and Merriam from
ardent supporters Of his to bitter en-
emies.
Hartman Makes Statement.
After receiving permission from the
court to make statement, Hartman
went at length into the division in
the Socialist party between those ad-
vOcating direct action or sabotage and
those who favored peaceful means, !
such as political action, 10 advance the
reforms contemplated by Socialism.
In defending himself against the in
ference by captain E'reder1ckS that the
break between himself and Cantren
was caused by Harriman's advocacy
Of violence, the witness, in re-
proachful tone, said the district at
torney knew better; that in the %
years he had forwarded the Socialist
prOpa ganda he had advocated political
action only and had opposed violence.
Did you ever say to Cantrell,
pursued captain Fredericks, that you
had known for some time that prep Z
arations had been made to pull off !
that job?'
4 never did. never said anything /
that could be construed as anything /
like it." replied Hartman.
He made a similar reply to a query /
as to whether he had told Merriam /
that the boys" knew in advance all /
about the plot to dynamite the Times. /