The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-02
ARE TAKING IT
AS Big JOKE
i,
Forty-Elsht Men Charged With Dyna-
mite Conspiracy Do Not Act
Like Guilty Men at
All.
Securing Of Jury is Well Under Way
and Important Witnesses Are
Being Notified to
Appear.

L IA
COURTROOM, INDIANAP>>>o s.,
Ind, Oct. with the selection of the
jury well under way after one day OF
trial, both the government and the
defense in the dynamite conspiracy |
case today began sending out notices
for their witnesses to come to In
dianapolis.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor; Will
liam j. Burns, the private detective
who figured in the investigation of
the alleged dynamiting; officers of the
A. F. Of l.. and many other persons
Of national importance, will be heard,
but it was not desired that they come
here until actually required on the
stand.
Nobody who today looked at the
forty-eight men ranged in rows across
the court room would have suspected
that they were on trial for their lib
and everything amuses them.
you belong to the delegation who
were seated In this convention of iron
workers." John Barry of st. Louis told
Peter Smith Of Cleveland, when
Smith asked why his name was not
among three whose cases were dis
missed by District Attorney Miller.
Those three fellows, Ryan, Irwin
and Kavanaugh,'' Barry said, were
q a contesting delegation who were un-
seated by the credentials committee. :
"The meeting will please come to
4 ORDER frequently comes from F. M.
Ryan, of Chicago in sibilant whispers
when Judge Anderson is about to
make some ruling Ryan is president
! of the iron workers and all but two OF
the members of the executive board
are among the defendants Ryan
breaks the monotony Of the tedious
court day frequently by pretending
the, men are holding board meeting
When court opened today twelve
: jurors tentatively had been accepted
by the defense. That did not mean
that the men were acceptable to the
iron workers but the defense had
questioned them as much as they de
sired until the government interrog
ated them. Thirty-three Of the one
) hundred talesmen summoned had beer
| examined. Two were passed for sick
ness and the other nineteen had opin
ions on the guilt Of the defendants
. which they said it would require evi
! dence to remove.
S District Attorney Miller and Sena
. tor Kern, when court re-convened
: proceeded with the further examina
e ltion of the twelve talesmen left in thu
J. box at yesterdays adjournment. Tit
{ questioning became more rigid
;. DO you think man should be al
lowed to run his business in his owl
y way. without outside interference?
!. was the counter-question Of the gov
a ernment.
i These questions clearly defined TIL
# issue of the trial-the right and wron
!. of organized labor. Half of the tales
men rejected were farmers, VIII
il swore that they believed the defend
n ants to be guilty. They said that tn
g confessions of the Mcnamara brotf
ers and Ortie McManigal jointly IL
q dicted with the forty-eight defendant
p now in court, convinced them that th
y forty-eight were guilty They decla
,s ed that it would require evidence
d remove their opinions.
\. One man was excused because h
r. said two of his sons belonged to Il
9. |hor organizations and another was IL
off because his brother-in-law was
" union member.