The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-11
Dynamite Conspiracy Pros
ecution Says 1t Will Show
Labor Leader Was Active
for Defense.
DETAILS ARE BEING
UNFOLDED IN CASE
u. S. Seeks to Show that All
of the Defendants Were
Entered into the Alleged
Conspiracy.
(National News Association

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Oct 1.-THE
name of Samuel Gompers and the
American Federation Of Labor went
into official record in the dynamite
conspiracy trial in federal court for
the first time today. When Senator
Kern objected to this assistant prose
cutor Noel declared, the prosecution
will show that Samuel Gompers did
have something to do with the defense
of this conspiracy in California If moth.
ing else"
Judge Anderson refused to strike
the evidence from the record. Frank
Schilling, clerk at the Southern Hotel
in San Francisco, November 22 to De.
cember S, 1910, testified to the pres.
ence there of Samuel Gompers, Olaf
Tveitmoe. N. ]. Young, Frank NJ.
Ryan and other labor leaders at that
time
This is the occasion upon which
Tveitmoe. the Pacific coast labor lead.
er is alleged to have asked J. J. Nc.
Namara for a Christmas gift on the
coast. which is alleged to have meant
the blowing up of the auxiliary plant
of the Los Angeles Times, the Baker
iron works and the Llewelyn iron
works. The latter was dynamited on
Christmas morning of that year.
George A. Dixon, clerk at another
San Francisco hotel, identified photo.
graph of ]. ]. Mcnamara as the man
who registered as ]. b. Bryce, at the
hotel on different dates in 1910. Other
witnesses were telegraph operators
and hotel clerks in various cities by
whose evidence it is expected to prove
the connection of the forty-five defend.
ants with the dynamite conspiracy by
showing their meetings and confer
ences at the various places.
Miller In Reserve.
District Attorney Charles w. Miller
Is content to sit and watch his assist.
ants, Nicholas and Noel. build up the
foundation evidence of the dynamite
conspiracy case in federal court Mil.
ler is saving himself to deal personal.
ly with the defendants when they
shall take the stand as witnesses. Mil.
ler is not a gentle questioner.
The minutely specific preparatory
evidence of the governments first for.
ty-three witnesses has shown that the
prosecution has done a thorough Job
of case-building. The defense is CON.
testing every point sharply. There
have been lively tilts between counsel
for the government and counsel for
the defense. Judge Anderson more
than once has expressed himself forci.
bly,, administering several sharp re-
Dukes to counsel.
Judge Anderson constantly reminded
the attorneys that no time shall be
wasted on non-essentials and quib-
brngs. He announced that II progress
ing and afternoon sessions a week,
other and lengthier sessions will be
held.
The following, in the form of evi.
dence. from hotel clerks from all over
the country, of J. B. and ]. ]. McNa.
mara's and Ortie McManigaPs trial OF
aliases, was begun Thursday afternoon
under the direction of Attorney Noel
for the prosecution. First photos OF
the McNamaras and McManigal In the
flesh were introduced and then came
hotel clerks who identified names on
their hotel registers for the last Ave
years. from which they recognized
either the McNamaras or McManigal
as the writer's of the different names.