The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-02-22
OYNAM|TERS
MAY CONFESS
SEVERAL INDICTED MEN SAID TO
BE PREPARING ITO TELL
ALL THEY KNOW"
OTHERS TO BE INDICTED,
Ryan Denies Revealed Letters Wero
Written to Promote Crime
i One More Defendant
Surrenders.

Indianapolis, Feb. Examinations
have been received by the government
that some of the defendants in the
dynamite conspiracy cases were pre-;
pairing to tell all they know. The
statements followed the govern,
ment's charges that 10000 letters
and kilograms taken from the Inter,
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers Offices
showed that Frank M. Ryan, the pres,
ident; Herbert S. Hockin, the second
vice president, and members of the
executive board and business agents,
conducted the dynamite plots through
the mail, pointed out "jobs' to be
blown up and maintained a system Of
destruction against non-union iron and
steel contractors.
w. N. Harding, counsel for Ryan
and the international officials of the
iron workers, held a long conference
with Mr.. Miller, but it was not dis
closed what was considered.
1t is stated that while the govern
ment brought indictments only in
such instances where it expected a
conviction to follow, many men were
mentioned in the testimony who es-
capped indictment because of lack of
evidence which. later. the government
may come into possession of.
Ortie E. McManigal's confession as
to the dynamiting he did under the
direction of ]. j. Mcnamara is said by
District Attorney Miller to be corrob.
Grated by letters embraced in the in
dictment charging "unconsummated
acts Of conspiracy"
Ryan's letter, written from New
York in April, 1910, is cited in the in
dictment as showing he instructed
Henry w. Legleitner, o of Denver,
to do certain 'jobs"; John T. Butler,
the first vice president of the union.
to do "jobs" at Buffalo and Roches-
ter, N. Y; Hockin to do Jobs at
Cleveland, Detroit, Davenport, Iowa,
and Cincinnati; Paul J.. Morrin, St..
Louis, to do a LOB" at Mt. Vernon,
ILL.,, and Frank c. Webb of New York
to do "jobs" at Worcester, Mass.
The indictments charging "consum-
mated" or completed, conspiracies al
lege that the job at Mount Vernon,
ILL.,, was dynamited on the night of
April 10; that the Davenport job un-
der construction by the company re-
ferred to by Ryan was dynamited June
4; that the Peoria job was dynamited
June a; that the Cleveland job was
dynamited June %; that the Pittsburg
Job was dynamited July IS; that a
bridge was dynamited at Kansas City
on Aug. %.
The testimony of McManigal, of
many witnesses from the cities in
which the explosions occurred, and of
members of crews of trains upon
which explosives were carried, will be
found to dovetail exactly with the let
tiers alleged to show the "unconsum-
mated acts" Mr.. Miller said.
Concerning the letters quoted in the
Indictment, Mr.. Ryan said:
1T is unfair for the government. to
draw conclusions that those letters
were written to promote crime. If
any person reads all of them he will
e that they refer only to legitimate
means of inducing contractors to
unionize their work.,
Observation-Disclosures as alb.
snred the charge of the government
that he %conspired to transport dyna-
mite from one state to another in vio-
lation of the federal laws, Moulton H.
Davis, a prosperous lumber dealer of
West Chester, Pa, for whom the Unit
ed States authorities had been search
ing. surrendered himself here.