Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-13
Alleged Dynamiter on Witness
Stand at Indianapolis.
LETTERS READ IN EVIDENCE
Author Explains Phraseology Re.
garded as Suspicious.
DENIAL OF ALL THE CHARGES
st. Louis Man Says He Regarded Nc
Namara as Innocent at
Time of Arrest.

INDIANAPOLIS, December 13-Visit:
made by some of the defendants to tn.
scenes of explosions on non-union job.
were explained by them at the dynamite
conspiracy" trial today.
J. Morrin. st. Louis, testified that three
weeks after the work of an "open shop
contractor at Mount Vernon Ill, was
blown up in April, 1910, he was instruct.
ed by John j. Mcnamara, then secretary
of the Ironworkers' International Union
to unionize the men. He said he found a
reward was offered for the dynamiter and
he SO wrote to Mcnamara
Explaining the phrase aerial perform.
ances,' Morrin said he used il in refer
ring not to explosions, but to "the men
being up in the air. whether or not they
were to get work.
Ortie E. McManigal confessed to caus-
ing the Mount Vernon explosion. Pre-
viously Frank NJ Ryan. president of the
union, had written to McNamare, Nor
rim can take care of Mount Vernon" but
Ryan denied it concerned dynamiting.
Helped to Raise Defense Fund.
Morrin said after McNamara's arrest
he assisted In raising a defense fund.
He said he arranged to have a moving
picture show. representing Mcnamara as
being kidnapped" by the authorities.
Morrin testified that at the Rochester.
three days before the Los Angeles ex-
plosion, he attempted but failed to have
passed a resolution for the publication Of
the unions expenditures.
knowing that $1,000 had been given to
Olaf NJ. Tveitmoe Of San Francisco to
help out the Los Angeles strike and that
thousands of dollars had been spent
without an accounting, still when Nc
Namara was arrested you believed him
innocent?" MOrrin was asked in cross
examination.
Il did," said Morrin.
Objection Overruled.
Counsel for the defense objected to this
line of inquiry, but the court held it had
been shown that thousands Of dollars
of the iron workers funds had been used
for the purpose of destroying life and
property
District Attorney Miller read a report
to the iron workers convention by Eu-
gene A. Clancy, San Francisco, advIs-
ing the strikers in Los Angeles to con-
tinue picketing in defiance of a city ordi-
nance and urging them to go to jail
rather than. obey the law.
Morrin was asked whether he had ap-
proved of Clancy's report. He said he
could not recall.
Voted for Protest to Gompers.
Whether he approved of a speech by
Emil Seidel Of Milwaukee. In which Seidel
denounced the courts for the arrest Of
John ]. Mcnamara as kidnapping" and
whether he approved of protest against
the kidnapping sent to Samuel Gompers
president OF the American FEEDER alton Of
Labor were questions asked Morrin.
II heard it, but l can't say / approved
of it," answered Morrin.
You didn't protest against that speech,
did you?''
NO"
Regarding the protest sent to Mr.
Gompers he said:
Il voted for it.
Ibid you vote for the resolution ex-
pressing confidence in Mcnamara after
he was held for the murder of twenty
one persons at Los Angeles?"
Yes, / voted for it. j thought Nc
Namara was innocent