The chronicle=news., 1912-12-28

ISOtuk up u lOncIS roma Win Dox
shortly before an explosion ut North
Randall. A mechanic came from Ha-
wall 10 tell OF overhearing certain
lof tho defendants discuss proposed
leXplOslOns in Detroit. An engineer
lcame FROM Panama. to recount his eX-
periences with Hockin. Men who
drove livery wagons. check boys In
railway stations. who cared for suit
cases. filled with Internal machines.
hotel clerks who booked" the Nc.
Namarax ma McManIEai for rooms.
detectives. stenosraphcrs. contract
ors who suffered from explosions.
pnd telephone operators. all related
pieccmeal their knowledge OF the
defendants conversations or move
Mcnts. which the government Mnder-
took to weave into u completed story
10 show NJ once the individual guilt
Of cnch. and the collective guilt OF
all the defendants.
One by one the defendants heard
the charges repeated against them.
| Tveitmcc heard his name mention.
ed often. lie was accused az having
furnished Caplan and Schmidt TO
help blow up tn. Times building.
lie WAS named AZ having sent word
to Mcnamara the month after the
cxplosIon that things were all right
on the coast. and an having rcQucst-
ed the dynamit"rs again be sent TO
lDc Angeles. later acknowledging
another explosion there on Dec. rs.
1910. as IN Christmas present" Me-
ManiEnl said he called at Tyciin,oe's
office IN San Francisco but met only
Eugene 4. Clancy there. Anton Jo-
hansen was mentioned by witnesses
M having helped Tvcitmoc. William
J. burns testified he told Mayor
Alexander. of Los Angeles. the day
after tho explosion that "TveItmoc
md Johunnscn wcr. behind IT,"
Testimony about Johannscn was
permitted on the ground that though
not u defendant. ''hc had been shown
to be n conspIraior."
| J. T.. Munscy. Salt Lake City. was
charged with harborinE the Los An
Iclcs dynamitcr for two weeks. 4
tailor In Salt Lake City said he alter
cd clothes for the dynamitcri aud
~y. also known as Jack Bright"
and Mcnamara together.
Clancy was again mentioned ms
bci6g In Boston when the Pacific
coast explosion occurred. and M
hnrryins west after tcicgraphins.
''clcnn house. meaning. mr. the gov
crnment charged. to destroy cvE-
dcncc. u. ". Fohiman. Of Seattle.
was mentioned as bringing McSam.
ara and Clancy together In that city.
OF all the dcendants Herbert =.
Iiockin was probably tn. most con-
Spicuous In the 'estimony.
The story Of iiockin. al told. was:
Az an organizer for the union he
induced McIianiE1i to do dynamit.
ing. Then he began TO hold out" on
the nay allowed McMsnikai for jobs.
This rcsatsea In quarrcia. aud the
McSsnAras decided TO have little to
'lo with him. Knowing this. iiockin
west TO u contractor In Pittsburgh
aad betrayed the dynamitcrs. That
was before the ioss OF life at Los An
xeics. Later Hockin worked 10.
isurns. while ssiii remaining M an
official q tho union. and when the
federal grand jury began work In
India napolis. iiockin took informa.
ton To the government.
The testimony ut tn. trial result.
cd In the increasing OF Hockin's
bonds. 10 that he was confined to
jail. Iiockin asserted to those for
whom he was accused Of acting as a
spy. tina: he took no part In dynn-
mitinK. but witnesses from Muncie.
Ind. and at Cincinnati pointed him
out M the man to whom they act
uaiiy sold explosives.
liockin again WAS the man mos,
mentioned by aicNanigai. AFTER
he had induced mo TO blow up a job
nj Detroit in 1907" said McAiani-
gal. "fiockin told me there was no
use OF my attempting to quit now.
M they had the goods on me. ask
ed him who was gong to pay mo for
my work. lie sold tho executive
board had set aside limited fec Of
sI:5 for each Job and expenses. II
told him IL was too little for n thing
like that. lie replied my family
would be- taken care OF II anything
happened. So ! went to IiloomviIic.
Ohio. and got an order from Nat
France to Bili Carey. who was the
keeper OF magazine. where dyna-
mite was stored for use In . stone
quarry and they let me havo some
without knowing what was going
to do with 1t. I used II TO blow up
"a derrick at Clinton. Iowa. Feb. 1G.
1908.
"Hockin TWO weeks later visited
ME again In Chicago and said he did
not have enough money to pay ex-
penses for the Clinton job. but for me
to 60 TO the hail OF the local union.
When ! went there the secretary, r.
II Houtth,u uoro nm m onroI1,,o