The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-12-05
FOUR DISCHARGED
At bomb TRIAL
Defendants Are Released for
Lack OF Evidence.
RYAN ON WITNESS STAND
President of Iron Workers Union
Makes Denial of Testimony Given
by Confessed Dynami.er
CIark-Hockin Resigns.

Indianapolis. Dec. 3.-After four de-
PENDANTS in the dynamite conspiracy
case had been discharged on motion
of United States Attorney Charles
w. Miller, who said the evidence
against them was insufficient, Frank
M. Ryan. president of the Iron Work
ers, went on the witness stand as
the first witness for the defense, and
Herbert S. Hockin, secretary-treasur-
er of the union, resigned, being sue
ceeded by Joseph H. McClory of
Cleveland.
The four defendants, who were dis
charged, leaving forty-one men on
trial, were:
Spurgeon p. Meadows, Indianapolis,
district business agent of the Car
penters union.
William H. Benson, East Galway,
N. Y, former president of the De-
troit Federation Of Labor.
Moulton H. Davis, Westchester, Pa,
member of executive BOARD of Iron
Workers in 1906
John r. Carroll, Syracuse, N. Y.
former business agent of the Iron
Workers.
Ryan Makes General Denial.
President Frank M. Ryan denied
that he ever made the remark to Ed
ward Clark, confessed dynamiter, at
the Southern bridge, about two
weeks before the dynamiting, that
there would be a good place to put
shot" He denied that he ever
knew until it developed in this trial,
that Clark had been a dynamiter for
the International
Ryan also began his explanation
of letters he had written. He also
for organizing purposes. 1t was I'M
der this head, the government
charges, dynamiting expenses were
classified.
ITO give information to the men,
bership-merely matter of news"
was the explanation Ryan made as to
why he sent out in his letters many
things about non-union work which
was dynamited later
This same explanation was given
by him as to why he had inclosed in
one Of his letters clipping concern
ing dynamiting
Explains Mcnamara Letter.
In explanation of a letter he wrote
to Mcnamara about the time of the
New Haven dynamtng that he had
1af
something would happen" Ryan said
that the reference was to what he ex.
pected to occur by reason of the
erectors having agents in the ranks
of the Union, endeavoring to get the
strike called off. His expectations
had nothing to do with dynamiting,
he said.
In answer to questions as to the
letter he sent to Mcnamara, appor-
tioning the various McClinticMar
shall jobs among different members
of the executive board, ito be looked
was to get members of the board at
work at trying to induce the compe-
tent men at work on the various jobs
to join the union.
AS result, he said, the interna-
tional got about 100 new members
Il will look after the job at Jersey
City with some one In As" Ryan had
written. He said he took the mat
ter up with a member of that local
and got him to try to get the men
working at Jersey City to join the
union.
Ten Jobs Were Dynamited.
The government put considerable
stress on this letter, as within four
months every sob" Of the ten or so
named by Ryan in this letter, was
dynamited, with only a few excep-
tons.
Money spent for organizing pur
poses, said Ryan, was spent in pay
ing eight dollars a day to the or
ganizer, in paying transportation ex-
penses, hotel bills, rent of halls when
necessary, and in employing assist
ants to the organizer, the assistant
usually being a member Of the local
In whose territory the organizing was
being done.