The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-31
f[5|DENT OF
|DDLEN TRUST
UNDER ARREST
Nam Wood, Head of $751;
Corporation, Is
harged With Conspiracy
d Distribute Dynamite.
TGROWTH OF THE
LAWRENCE STRIKE
kta1ist Declares He Is Inno-
of the Charge; Will Be
|n11ally Araigned Next
Tuesday.
isrnatlonnl News Service.

isnatlonal News Service.
lSToN, Aug. So.-Thcre was an
astounding outcome today of
The great strike Of mill opera
lives at Lawrence, Mass, which
from January 12 until March IL
alarmed the country and brought
Forkers and militia in sanguinary
ION.
Linn N. Wood, president of the
ien Woolen company, surrendered
NJ here on learning he had been
fM for conspiracy.
Wood Is accused Of plotting to
dynamite so as to discredit the
unions.
ID charged that he and others
Hsd TO conceal the deadly explosive
tAra to betray it's hiding places to
pice 10 as to create!the impression
The strikers proposed to destroy
of the mills from which they had
sd ont.
De dynamite was discovered in a
lsn lodging house, cobbler's shop
q cemetery at Lawrence last jan
Necessarily tho impression that
discovery" made did not improve
Hamper Of the militiamen and po-
isty were ready to shoot.
aN Of STE, 100000
'N Assflesn Woolen company is one
re ffbtest manufacturing concerns
tautry, It is capitalized at $751;
has thirty-three mills in New
ad and New York and employs
4" opefatlves when all its machin-
2 moving. Fifteen thousand of
afa a. Lawrence, where the com
bore the brunt of the strike.
Wood and his lawyer, former
Pesdusn Samuel L. Powers, drove
'Ior car to police headquarters this
'ng, then to the courthouse. Wood
% entirely calm. His bail was
~ $4,000 and he handed over five
bills.
sad Immediately afterward;
y course | was greatly surprised
action Of the grand jury. I can
soaeelVe what information could
peen presented to the jurors which
way connected me with the so"
dyuamite plot.
certainly had no connection with
fais will be fully established at
roper time to the satisfaction Of
puollc and even the district at
~"
y Of Inquiry.
arrest Of Wood is the third re-
Tue grand lury's investigation
4 dynamite plot" which was
yea by District Attorney Pei.
sno began on Tuesday.
o. breen, Lawrence under
4nd member Of the school board,
sn convicted of selling dynamite
y 70 certain persons and fined
seaily Breen was suspected of
aeiped to plant the dynamite.
l''. followed the discovery that
of the explosive was wrapped
,aset Of paper on which were
name and address and which
sn torn from an undertaken e
Journal
's't and other knowledge seems
aroused District Attorney Pei.
soSpieious and he began his in.
On Tuesday the high Of
VI tho Lawrence mills. who have
= snis city, wero called before
a jury. Some could not be
70 OF Contractor.
aame day Ernest A. Pitman, q
''0f Of Andover, who built the
"'fsted mills Of the American
company at Lawrence, conf
suicide at Andover. He had beer
s,ofa the grand jury.
asner. John ". Pitman, 4.
10 saying today that Ernest bai
0 much about the hdiscovery'
,.s lse at Lawrence and he bsd
IA, mat when Breen was found
- 81 - Collins. a Cambridge do,
vs. n.c a friend of Breen, was ar
t,ssuusterday charged with unlnw
a @n'portIng dynamite on Januar,
soe first strike leaders at Law