The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-09-28
LETTERS TELL OF
THE DYNAMITE PLOTS
Mass OF Evidence in Hands of
Government In Case of Iron
Workers

Indianapolis. Ind, September 25 The
United States District Attorney and q
corps Of assistants are ct work on the
dyBamiting cases which will be called
for trial Tuesday, October 1, at which
time 81 defendants. representing almost
the entire list Of officials of the Inter.
national Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron workers for ten years
back. will appear in the prisoners boz
in the Federal Court.
The District Attorney has marshaled
his testimony, consisting largely of
documentary evidence, in such Q way as
to expedite the trial as much IS possible.
The records aud letters taken from the
offices OF the iron workers have been ar
ranged In the order Of their dates and
in the order in which the writers stand
toward the conspiracy that the Govern
ment charges existed in the organization
to dynamite property. and at the front
OF these stand letters showing what part
Frank NJ. Ryan, the international presi-
dent, took In the furthersnce of the al.
legged conspiracy.
To LnuoiDe Officials
John ]. McNamara. the Intern ational
secretary, handled all the correspond
ence and gave practically all the in.
structions regarding places where ex-
plosives should be used. but there is
abundant evidence that the instruc.
tioDs were acted upon, and what is be.
lieved TO be the coming effort on the
part of the defendants to make Nc
Namara q scapegoat will be met by
evidence showing that he was acting
under the orders of the board, that the
board appropriated the money with
which to buy explosives and pay dy-
nsmlters. and that the men indicted
were cognizant of all that was goiug
on, and in a great majority of cases
actually planted the dynamite.
Letters from Ryan to other members
and from them to Ryan constitute an
interesting part of the correspondence.
In one of Rysn's letters written to
John j. McNamsra from New Ycrxin
April, 1910, he gave explicit instruc-
miters should operate and named them
in the letter.
How well and expeditiously these
jobs were handled the Government will
show from the records in it's possession
and from the testimony Of contractors.
1t will be shown that the McOlintock g.
Marshall works st Mt. Vernon were
dynamited on the night of April 10; that
the Davenport works. under construc-
tion by the same company, were wrecked
June 4 that work at Peoria was dyna-
mited the same night; that a Cleveland
job was dynamited on June 90; that a
Pittsburg job, for which Legleitner was
selected. as it was in his home city, was
dynamited on the night of July 10. and
that bridge at Kansas City, which the
McClintock g. Marshall Company was
constructing, was dynamited on August
23.
AS Hooking. q board member at the
time and now acting secretary, was, ac-
cording to the letters. most active among
the dynamiters, with the possible excep-
tion of Ortie McManigal. he would nat
urally be expected to figure largely in
the correspondence. In addition to this,
he is often referred to in letters to other
members. and always as the man who
was very busy or who would be sent
to look after certain work.
A letter which recalls the dynamiting
of the Los Angeles Times building is
from o. A. Tveitmoe inclosing q check
for $500 "for money advanced" The
letter expresses the hope that Santa
Claus would be as generous with sur
prises as he had been in the Golden
State, and it is said the reference here
is to the dynamiting Of the Times
building in which so many lives were
sacrificed. Letters. nearly 200 of which
are in possession of the Government.
are from or about all the men indicted
and the Government is aole, it is said,
to trace practically every job of dyns-
miting to q connection with them.