Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-02-14
80 INDICTED IN
DYNAMITE CASES
Forty to Fifty Labor Chiefs to be
Arrested.
NAMES ARE KEPT A SECRET
Investigation at indianapolis Ends in
Wholesale Charges Against Union
Leaders-March IL Is Ar
raiqnment Day.


and agents whom the government
holds criminally responsible with
the McNamaras and Ortie E. McManl-
gal for perpetrating more than 100 ex-
plosions which occurred in cities from
Massachusetts to California in the last
six years, and in which the wrecK1ng
of the Los Angeles Times building
was an incident, were indicted by the
federal grand jury here. Th1rty-tWo
indictments were returned. Cap1ases
for arrests have been issued, and all
the men indicted are to be taken IN
custody on a day secretly fixed by the
government.
The courtroom was packed when
Herbert M. Glessbrenner, foreman OF
the grand jury, logged the indictments
in from the jury room in two bulging
suit cases. The names of those IN
dicted were ordered suppressed.
The number of indictments does not
Indicate the number of men lndlcteo'
as many are charged with the same
offense in blanket indictments. IL IS
known that the history of the Mona
maras has been traced from the time
they exploded their first bomb, anu
practically every person connected
with them in transporting dynamite,
who paid them for their crimes or hao
knowledge of their operations, mas
been indicted.
March IL was set as arra1gnment
day and clerks began the work OF
making certified copies of the inolct-
ment and preparing summonses' An
effort will be made to arrest every
man named at the same hour ana
nearly every defendant is now known
to be under surveillance in dlTterent
parts of the country.
Many of the indictments center
around the activities Of Ortie McManl-
gal confessed dynamiter, and those
who went to Detroit in June, 1917, ana
induced him to become member Oh
the ravaging band have been IN
dicted
Implicated by the evidence which
the government has spent months IN
examining are believed to be many
men active in the iron workers local
unions in various cities, who, although
we'll known among members of their
own craft, are not widely known in
the country. The list Of men who Will
be obliged to stand trial here, how
ever. is thought to include several
prominent officials or ex-off1cials OF the
iron workers who are widely known IN
labor union circles.
The names of the party of labor
leaders who went to Boston with Nc
Manigal in March, 1909, and showed
him how to place the deadly alarm
clock arrangement where 1t would de-
stroy an opera house were told to the
grand jury, and all are said on good
authority to have been indicted. The
same party is accused of taking Nc
Manigal to Springfield, Mass, where
they dynamited a municipal building.
Milwaukee, Chicago, New York.
Boston, Cleveland. Peoria, San Fran
cisco, Kansas City, Omaha Pittsburg,
New Orleans, Buffalo, Detroit. Phila-
deIphia, Indianapolis and st, Louis are
among the cities in which arrests are
expected, although the government has
been making an especial effort to keep
secret the names of the men in
volved 1t is said that the possible
connection of numerous men with the
dynamite conspiracy has been investi-
gated but that because of lack Of suf-
advisable to indict these men.