Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-31
Farmer Jury After 2 Nights
and a Day Find Verdict
Against All but Two OF
the Forty Defendants.
DAVENPORT MAN IS
FOUND NOT GUILTY
Buckley, With Seiffert Of
Milwaukee, Escape Con-
viction of Aiding in the
Conspiracy.

Conspiracy.
Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 28.-Thlrty
eight labor union officials, today were
found guilty Of completely in the NC
Namara dynamite plots, including the
wrecking of the Los Angeles Times
building.
Frank IN. Ryan president OF the In
ternational Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, was among
those convicted. He with others, was
accused of using the unions funds to
destroy property of contractors who
refused to recognize the union.
Two defendants were found not
guilty. @
The following were found guilty:
Frank NJ. Ryan president of the In
ternational Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers; John T. But
Ter, Buffalo, vice president; Vice Presi-
dent Herbert S. Hockin, former secre.
tary and formerly of Detroit; Olaf A..
Tveitmoe, San Francisco, secretary of
the California Building Trades council;
Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco;
Philip A. Cody. New Orleans; Michael
J. Young, Boston; Frank K. Higgins,
Boston; J. e. Munsey, Salt Lake City;
Frank C.. Webb, New York; Patrick E.
Farrell, New York; John H. Berry, St.
Louis; Paul j. Morrin, st. Louis;
Henry W. Legleitner, Denver; Charles
N. Beum, Minneapolis; William e.
Reddin, Milwaukee; Michael J. Cum
name, Philadelphia; Richard H. Houli-
han, Chicago; James Cooney, Chi
cago; James A. Coughlin,- Chicago;
William shupe, Chicago; Edward
Smythe, Peoria, ILL.,; James E. Ray,
Peoria, ILL.,; Murray L. Pennell, Spring
field, Ill., William C.. Bernhart, Gin
cinnati; Willford Bert Brown, Kansas
City, Mo-; William ]. Mccain, Kansas
City, Mo-; Frenk X. Painter, Omaha;
Peter J. Smith, Cleveland; George An
derson, Cleveland; Michael J. Hannah,
Scranton, Pa; Edward E. Phillips, SYRIA
cuse, N. Y; Charles Wachtmeister,
Detroit; Frank J. Murphy, Detroit;
Fred J. Mooney, Duluth; Ernest G. w.
Basey, indianapolis; Fred Sherman,
In lianapolis Hiram R. Kline, Muncie.
Ind, former organizer for the United
b otherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers. "e
The following were found not
guilty: ,.,,..s ...s - ..sr
Herman G.. seiffert, Milwaukee,;
Daniel Buckley, Davenport, Ia. T..
sustalns the Government.
The conviction of Olaf A. Tveitmoe
and Eugene A. Clancy Of San Francisco
and j. E.. Munsey of Salt Lake City
sustained the governments charges
that they aided In plotting the Los
Angeles explosion in which twenty-one
persons were killed and assisted In
the escape Of James B. Mcnamara In
his night from the scene of the crime
BY It's verdict the jury also sus-
tanned the charges that the Mcnamara
brothers, now in prison in California
were aided in the nationwide dyna-
mite plots by almost all the executive
offlcials of the Iron Workers union and
that they knowingly carried on the
conspiracy for years by causing ex.
plosives to be transported on passenger
trains
AS head of the union Of $4,000 mem
bers, President Ryan once sat in the
Of the American Federation
Of Labor.
Tveitmoe of San Francisco was
charged with not only supplying two
men to assist in blowing up the Los
Angeles Times building but also with
having asked for more explosions on
the Pacific coast He is secretary of
The California Building Trades coun-
ell an editor and recognized leader in
labor circles on the coast. /
Also at the head Of those found |
guilty is Herbert S. Hockin called "the
[ago of the conspiracy" because he
was charged with first initiating Ortie
e. McManigal as a hired dynamiter
and then with betraying all the dyna
niters to promote his own ambition
t was he who once secretary of the
union whispered into
he ear of Detective Burns the names
II the Los Angeles Times dyna-
niters"
John T. Butler vice president of the |
ron workers also was convicted and
branded by the court as "perjurer"
lfter he had denied that Mcnamara
vas drawing $1,000 a month to pay
or dynamiting.
An almost tragic scene took place
n the court room in the few minutes
following the end Of the trial.
AS U. S. Marshal Edward Schmidt
,Fdered the prisoners one by ono to
;tep before the court the wives of a !;
;core Of the men in the rear of the
DOM leaned pitifully over the rail-
ngs. calling for their husbands.
Mrs. Frank j. Higgins of Boston
eaned far over the railing and col
apsed. She had been crying hysteri-
ally.
Wife Bouys Husband. Il
Another disposition was shown by
Grs. John =. Barry of st. Louis. with
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