Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-02-16
NEW EVIDENCE IN
DYNAMITE PLOT
Forty Thousand Letters and
kilograms lmpiicate
Most Officials
CAUSED HUNDRED EXPL LOS|ONS
Pr esident of Iron Workers De-
clared to Have Been at Head
of Conspiracy.

| disclosures made in the dynamite con
spiracy cases through forty-thousand
! letters and kilograms quoted in The
/ indictments as duplicating practically
all the officials of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
| Iron Workers will be the basis. it was
declared today, on which the govern
ment will seek to convict the fifty-four
defendants who are charged with COM
mltting or abetting in almost one hun
| dred explosions.
! The correspondence, contained in
one Of the thirty-two indictments and
embracing what are termed "uncon-
summated acts of conspiracy" is held
as showing that vast plot, known to
and furthered by frank NJ. Ryan, pres.
ident of the Iron Workers, and to
members of his executive board and
| many business agents, was carried on
for six years to destroy the property
of steel and iron contractors who en-
ployed non-union labor.
1t charges all the defendants with
being equally guilty as abettors. 1t al
so purports to reveal evidence that
jobs became the accepted term to
be sent through the man to designate
some place that was to be blown up,
and that gradually thu officials of To-
cal unions began to call on the Inter-
national headquarters in indianapolis
| to assist by dynamite and nitro-glycer-
inc in increasing the expenses of
open shop" contractors. Ortie E.
McManigal, Herbert S. Hockin, second
vice president, and James B. McNa-
mara became, it is charged, an organ
| lied "dynamiting crew."
| Letters are included to show regu-
| lar fees were paid to McManigal and
that the cost of doing local Jobs fre-
quently was discussed in letters.
Carried Dynamite in Suit Case.
| Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 16.-With
reference to Henry w. Legleitner of
! Denver, the ''unconsummated act" in
dlctment charges that on December
5, 1910, be appeared at the office Of
! the iron workers international head.
quarters in indianapolis with a suit
case which was designed and used
to carry can of nitroglycerine.' The
! Indictment describes the suit case as
a telescope suit case of fibrOid, Is
| inches high and 1-2 inches square,
and declares that Legleitner brought
| it from Pittsburgh and that it later
was carried by other persons named
in the Indictment to Cleveland and
other points. All the other defend
ants are named as abetting Legleitner
| in this instance.
Davis Surrenders.
Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 16.-Mouton
Fl. Davis, under an Indictment charg-
! ing conspiracy in connection with the
| dynamiting cases, surrendered to the
| United States District Attorney here
! today. Davis has been in business in
| an interior town of Pennsylvania for
some years.
Judge Lewis Declined to Hear Petition
Denver, Colo. Feb. 16.-Judge Lew
! is in the United States district court
here today declined to hear petition
! 1or the issuance of a writ of habeas
corpus for Henry w. Legleitner, ar
rested Tuesday on an indictment re
turned at indianapolis. Simon J
Heller of Mullins & Heller, counse
for the petitioner, announced that they
would try to bring the matter before
the supreme court of the United
States. Judge Lewis listened only tc
the first part of the petition. Catch
| ing it's drift, he declined to hear more
and ire lawyers left the court. The
petition averred that the United
States commissioner who issued the
warrant for Legleitner's arrest, was
without jurisdiction, that it was is
sued without hearing evidence: that
the affidavit on which the warrant was
based was insufficient, and that the
detention of the alleged dynamite con
spirator is contrary to the laws anC
the constitution of the United States
Iegleitner is charged with Illegally
Transporting As pounds of dynamite
from Bellefontaine, Ohio. to Indianap
oils.
Another Arrest.
Saratoga, n. Y, Feb. 16.-On 6
charge of conspiracy in transporting
dynamite from one state to another
William K Benson, who was presiden
of the Detroit Federation of Labor, il
1910, was arrested at his farm neal
Bakerville today and brought here
Benson who is &c years old, was one
of the union labor leaders recently in
dicted at Indianapolis.
Rehearing Granted.
New York, Feb. 16.-Hugh Gordon
Miller, as counsel for Frank c. Webl
and Patrick F. Farrell, today asked
U. S. Commissioner Alexander to re
open the case and grant his clients :
hearing.
Webb and Farrell, arrested here il
the alleged dynamite conspiracy, hat
waived examination and were put un
der $4,000 bail each to appear fo
pleading in indianapolis.
After listening to objections by thu
assistant district attorney, the com
missioner said that in all fairness h,
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