New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-25
CHALLENGE TO BOMB
DEFENCE UNANSWERED
Government Attorney in Jury
Plea 0efies Counsel to Speak
for HoCkin or MunSey.
ACCUSES THREE OF MURDER
Tveitmoe, Munsey and Clancy.
with Ryan and Webb, Ought
to Share McNamara's
Fate, He Says.

Indianapolis. Dec. Outstanding befor.
the jury ut the trial Of the forty labor
men accused Of completely I'm dynamite
plots, the United States Attorney.
Charles w Miller. challenged to-day any
OF the defence's twelve lawyers to speak
in behalf of J. f. Munsey, OF Salt Lake
City, or Of Herbert S. Hockin, ex-secre.
tary OF the ironworkers' union.
Munsey was accused Of harboring
James y. Mcnamara in the latters flight
from Los Angeles after blowing I'D m.
Times Building there, and was branded
by the District Attorney as "one OF the
men who ought now TO be i'm San Quen.
tin prison for murder along with the
McNamaras." Hockin was declared 10
be the Iago of the conspiracy, who
started the dynamiting and then
SWITCHED on the others to promote his
own ambition"
No one accepted Mr.. AIiller's offer. Tn.
dramatic scene ensued after United
States Senator John w. Kern had ended
his argument for the defence. Mr.. Miller
criticised Senator Kerns argument as
coming from zone who ought TO be in
Washington" saying:
If il required 5000 600 for Clarence
barrow 10 bring the trial % tho McNa-
maras at Los Angeles to a successful
plea of guilty. what must II have cost TO
retain counsel here. with ex-Judges and
a United States Senator as lawyers?
How can men for mere money raise their
voices for such consummate criminals
Yet in all this long trial ] have heard
no voice raised in behalf Of TWO Of the
defendants. Who Of the lawyers Hill
stand up and say Hockin is not guilty?
Who will say that Munsey Is not guilty?
! Will give twenty minutes Of the gov
ernments time 10 any lawyer who will
argue that these men are not guilty.
Silence Greets Miller.
Here the federal attorney turned from
the jury box. looked with an outstretched
hand toward the attorneys for the de-
fence and paused. Senator Kern then
was not present. For minute NIr. Mil
Ter waited with the courtroom in silence.
NO answer" said Mr. Miller There
is not a lawyer present who will defend
Hockin or Munsey Not a voice in be-
half Of these men lie added:
Senator Kern. paid by the public to
perform a public service, who ought to
Ice i'm Washington now attending 10 his
duties. instead Of being here, has dared
to appear in this court and IN total dis
regard for the law has appealed TO the
prejudice and passions Of this Jury W
behalf Of the wives and children Of these
defendants. Who appealed In behalf OF
the women and children who were rela-
lives Of the twenty-onc persons killed
in the Los Angeles Times explosion:
Nobody.
Four hours were taken up by tho 10
fence with Hiram r. Kline, about whose
innocence, they assert. there b. 30 d0UOl
but only three minutes were given W
Olaf \. Tveitmoe Of San Francisco.
Enough evidence has been produced &c
show that Tveitmoe, Eugene \. Ilancl
and Munsey all ought TO be with McNa'
mara in san quentin prison, m 'ahIornd
TOR murder. II ! were the prosecuting
officer OF Los Angeles County, INeitmoe
and Clancy would be prosecuted for mu !.
Ger; and If the jury were composed Of
honest men they soon would be WIN
Mcnamara. along with some others,
And among the others would be fraus
NJ RYAN. president OF the ironWoIkets
union. and Frank g Webb. OF New YORK.
No witnesses appeared here Tor NeGg
and he did not take the stand Noulg
have given him something 10 explain il
he had.
New light on the trial here. SHOWING
the government charged. that II grew ont
OF attempts TO obstruct the removal u
evidence from indianapolis 70 Los An
geles. was given by Nj. Miller lie sa'u
the reason the federal investigation oessH
here WAS because Leo VI. RappapoGI d.
torney for the international Association
Of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
M which J. !. Mcnamara was secretary
DESTROYED evidence or instructions l'o."
Mcnamara while the latter was III jan
and because Frank p. Baker, ProsecDuHs
Attorney OF Marion County, Ind JolheG
in the obstruction against the removal
Of evidence TO Captain j. ID. fFeueli0N
District Attorney of Los Angeles No''
~" Mr.. Miller continued:
The federal government was appe1T,
TO. and il stepped in to procure tHt Ia.
tiers and papers In the lr9nM9 ,,is, Tho led.
quarters with the revelation that INC mr.
eral laws had been violated. AH .nr,,s ~
say that il | We're proSecuunS d.U .bis
of Los Angeles County | WoIid a ~ ,,,'
man Rappaport indicted as an
after the fact for murder
Referring to the denial before me IO.,
of a Cleveland lawyer that no relsh ..
terror" ever existed in Cleveland "'.
Miller said. 1T has been shown tEat no'
only was there a reign OF terror III O'e'e
land. but that the prosecuting at'orn'
,bere was the same kind Of spineless IT.
d,yldual as the prosecutor Of Marion
County; that the police courts l""'u
do their duty. and that owe eN,s,e"
under the very caves OF the CITY nan
Attacking ortie i. MECHANICAL the con
tossed dynamlter, as the greatest GRIM.
nal of his time Senator Kern III NE
argument for the defence, said the so',
ernments charges were based ia nssis
mon what Mechanical had SAID. fare
WcManigal came here with a praZen nir r" OF
and related his crimes with an IA az vou
| triumph" said the senator. ~ bs lie.
,optpSt over cow 10 We -"