Evening star., 1912-11-24
WRITER FOR MAGAZINE
BRANDED AS ANARCHIST
Reference to Alleged Acts of Con-
tempt by Counsel for Defense.
DISCLAIMER BY THE LAWYERS
Lindsey J. Jewel Testifies to Dis
closures Made by Hockin Re-
garding Destruction of
Property.

INDIANAPOLIS. November
23.-Imprisonment Of Herbert 6.
Hockin, one of the chief defend
ants, in default Of an increased
bond, which was required bv the
court because he had deceived
every one,' the denouncing by
the district attorney'of a woman
writer in the courtroom as ali
"anarchist" and a reputation by
attorneys for the defense of some
of the acts of the defendants were
among the sensational incidents
at the dynamite conspiracy" trial
today.
Employed by Detectives.
Hockin was declared to have
been in the employ of detectives
soon after the Los Angeles Times
explosion. He was also accused
of having told a witness of over
hearing John ]. Mcnamara talk
to President Lynch of the Inter
national Typographical Union
"about an explosion on the Pacific
coast"
United States Senator John w.
! Kern was among the counsel for
| the defense who disavowed an
article published by some of the
defendants.
The forty-hve men accused by
the government of completely IN
the Mcnamara dynamite plots, by
abetting for four or five years in
the illegal transportation of ex-
plosives, sat in silence while the
testimony and the action OF
the court brought unexpected
changes.
Developments Of the Day.
| The developments of the day We're:
| Herbert S. Hockin. secretary and treas
urer of the International Association of
Bridg and Structural Ironworkers. was
| taken to jail in default of his being un-
| able to increase his ten-thousand-dollar
bond to $1,000 ordered by the court
| after a witness had said he was in the
| employ of a detective and had been since
| seen after the Los Angeles Times eX-
plosion. .and was not to be trusted day
or night by any one Hockln is the
| successor of ]. j. McNamara, the dyna-
| inter- as an official of the union, and is
| regarded as one of the principal defend
| ants.
| Miss Mary Field of New York was
| branded by the district attorney as
| anarchist who ought to De excluded
| from the courtroom" for certain articles
| she published concerning the trial In the
| union magazine.
All of the officials of the union now on
trial, including Frank NJ. Ryan, the
president; J. T. a Butler s1an Buffalo, "a vice g
A. Cooley, New Orleans; were denounced
for publishing what the judge said was
IAN outrageous contempt of court.
| Federal Judge Albert b. Anderson
stated as 1t was Saturday night he would
| not be inclined TO increase the bonds or
the last named defe.siants, although hes
| would not act on the motion at this
| time"
Lawyers Disavow Sentiments.
| No sooner had the court spoken than
Senator Kern and William n. Harding,
among the attorneys for the defense,
arose and said they had not been con-
| suited about publishing the article cri-
ticising the trial, and that they disavow-
| ed the sentiments expressed In the ar
| ticle.
| Pointing toward the table where sat
| about ten attorneys for the defense.
| Judge Anderson said he had In mind
To- fhx. tod 49,,
| selves to be attorneys and IL / Learn To
be true things which 1 have heard these
attorneys said. the arm of the law will
| deal heavily with them.
| Concerning Miss Field who has been
present I'm the courtroom for several
weeks, District Attorney Charles w. Mil
| ler said she had often been seen i'm the
| company OF the defendant, O'af A. Tveit-
moe, of San Francisco who conducted
| the same sort of publication as that
which published Miss Fields artice''
Lindsey L. Jewel. now an engineer on
| the Panama canal. had testified that in
! August 1910. the month before the Los
! Angeles Times explosion, Hockin had
/ been giving information about the dyna-
| miters; that soon after the explosion
| there Hockin worked directly with Will
! liam ]. Burns, a detective, to whom he
/ described fully just who the dynamiters
| We're: that Hockin. while still an official
| of the union worked for pay in trailing
| the dynamiters about the country. with
Burns four months before the arrests
| were made. and that Hockin had said he
| overheard a conversation between j. j.
| Mcnamara and President Lynch OF the
| International Typographical Union about
| q proposed explosion on the Pacific coast.
The courts action in increasing Hook
| in's bond and in denouncing certain o.
the defendants for publishing articles in
criticism of the trial came after the jury
had retired for the day.
Extract From Denounced Publication
An extract from Miss Fields article, to
which District Attorney Miller referred
as typical. was:
October these forty-five defendants
walked into court and pleaded not guilty
TO the charges OF the steel trust. qhen
began the farce of trial-a trial In which
money. prestige. power WAS the prose-