The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-02-17
MANI LETTERS
Of -DyNAM|TERS
WERE SEIZED
MEN COME INTO
POSSESSION OF DOCUMENTS
AS EVIDENCE.
lndictr' ent Against Savannah Man
"
.Reeee FED In That City - William
Henson Was Arrested Yesterday ia
Saratoga,
Saratoga,

Indianapolis. Feb. 1e.-New dis
closures made in the dynamite con-
splr,cy cases through forty thousand
ietters and kilograms quoted in the
as duplicating practical
ly all the officials of the International
association of Bridge and Structural
iron Workers will be the basis, it was
declared today, upon which the gov
ernment will seek to convict the fifty
four defendants who are charged with
committing or abetting in almost one
hundred explosions
The conspiracy charge cotained in
one of the thirty two indictments and
embracing what are termed "uncon-
summated acts of conspiracy" is held
as showing that vast plot known
and furthered by Frank M. Ryan, the
president of the ironworkers and
members of his executive board and
many business agents, was carried on
for six years to destroy the property
of steel and iron contractors who en-
plOyed nom union labor
1t charges all the defendants with
being equally guilty as abettors.
Much Evidence of "Jobs."
1t also purports to reveal evidence
that "JCbs" became the accepted term
TO be sent through the mail to desig-
nate some place that was to be blown
up and that gradually the officials of
local unions began to call on the in
ternational headquarters in Indianapo-
lis to assist by dynamite and nitro
glycefine in increasing the expenses
OF open shop" contractors. Ortie
McManigal, Herbert S. Hockih, second
vice president, and James B. McNa-
mara, became it is charged, an Or
ganized "dynamiting crew" Letters
are included to show regular fees
were paid to McManigal, and that the
cost of doing local Jobs" frequently
was discussed in letters. A letter
from Olaf A. Tveitmoe, of the local
union in San Francisco to J. J. McNa-
mara in indianapolis, after the Los
Angeles Times disaster, stating he
hoped Santa Claus would be as kind
and generous to you with surprises"
is quoted to show that the complica-
ton spread from Boston to the Paci-
fic coast.
FoIr more indictments not yet made
public, supplement the principal in
dictment containing the conspiracy.
These indictments name all the fifty
four defendants as implicated in the
general conspiracy and make these
charges:
"That on thirty four counts all the
defendants are guilty as principals in
illegal transportation Of dynomite."
TRANSPORTING Charges.
"That on thirty four counts Nc
Manigal, John ]. Mcnamara, James B.
Mcnamara and Hockin are guilty Of
were sent TO the penitentiary for life.
They were Frank kita and Leo Such
each 16 years of age The men
Guilzow on the northwest
market with load Of garden truck.
Guilzow, who had been married a
little more than year, pleaded with
his lSsailants to take his money, but
to arg ( his life for the sake of his
wife and month old baby Instead his
slayers attacked him with clubs, re-
volvers and knives. After they had
killed him they mutilated his body.
'(hey were arrested while trying to
sell Guilzow's horses.
The crime was committed ON the
goth of October, 1911.
The six were found guilty December
IL last.
"urderer ASks Forgiveness.
Ewald Shiklawski, one Of the men
who was hanged today for the murder
of Fred Guizow, wrote the widow Of
his victim last night asking forgive
ness. The letter reads:
q must die tomorrow for the muir
der of your hu1band and the father
Of your children. | wish to God had
never done it, and I ask you to for
give me, if you can, for whot did.
81 had a fair trial. My lawyer did
what he could and the assistant states
attorney treated me fairly.
Il am guilty, and before my death
I ask your FORGIVENESS for the great
wrong I did. God knows that if I
could live I would spend my whole
life IN trying to do for you and your
child what ! ought to do"