The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-19
EACH MAN HAS
GOOD REPUTATION.
Each One Of tho Forty.five Who Are
Charged With Being In the Dyna-
n,ite Conspiracy Wants
to Testify.
SOME HAVE ALIBIs
Case Is Behind Schedule and WIN
Last Until the Middle of Janu-
AIRY or Perhaps
Longer.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.I
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Nov. 19.--
The district attorney today hoped to
finish with the important evidence on
the Los Angeles Times explosion and
the other coast work Of the accused
dynamiters and it was thought pos
sible that everything would be ready
for Ortie McManigal to resume his
story tomorrow or not later than
Thursday.
/ 1t was made certain today that the
dynamite conspiracy trial, which now
/ is In its eighth week, would last at
least until the middle of January and
perhaps longer The district attorney
said the government was many days
! behind schedule Miller said that he
thought the government would not be
ready to rest before the first week IN
December Leading counsel for the
defense said their co-workers would
consume fully six weeks. Every one
of them wants to testify and some OF
4 them have small armies OF witnesses
4 to prove alibis and good regulations
4 Oscar Lawlor, special assistant at
I torney general for the Los Angeles
investigation, and Arthur Veitch,
: deputy district attorney for Los An
& geles, told about the panic Of Eugene
A. Clancy after the Los Angeles explo-
J sion, of his fainting at the sudden con-
/. fession of the McNamaras.
; The testimony of the attorneys
] coincided exactly and was all directed
I against Clancy They said that he ad.
: mitted that he telegraphed to j. J
!. Mcnamara, asking if 81 b. had start
ed for the coast; that he met ]. B. Nc
t Samara and was told by him that he
; had come to clean up the coast and
/ "clean out the scab jobs" that he Wis
E tied Munsey in Salt Lake after the
, Times explosion to make arrange
= ments for the concealment there OF
{ ]. b. Mcnamara.
!, Edward Smith and James e. Ray
both of Peoria, ILL.,, defendants in the
J dynamite conspiracy case, today were
d surrendered by their bondsmen. The
were at liberty under $4,000 bono
d each. The announcement was made
b as soon as court was convened. Judge
8 Anderson received the surrender ant
o Smith and Ray were Immediately plac
d ed in custody Of Marshal Schmidt t
e keep company with Ortie McManiga
J. and Edward Clarke.
l. Attorney Frank l.. Miller, OF Peoria
o announced the surrender and said h
was acting for Thomas Webb
:. Peoria diamond broker who wa
bondsman for Smith and Ray in $500
each. The action was complete SUI
:. prise as no evidence as yet had bee
: given against Ray, though McMar
= ), igal's story OF his alleged Peoria OF
y erations implicated Smith to col
!. siderable extent.
= Smith and Ray had no inkling c
e what was coming when the bonds
mans attorney addressed the cour
and when they were signaled by th
marshal to take seats in a corne
alongside McManigal and Clarke, tn
q two men were clearly chagrinet
= while the other defendants locke
about apprehensively to see If thei
bondsmen were in court.
"The men will get other bondsme
sS some time today and I am confider
they will not be locked UP, said He
bert s. Hockin, secretary-treasurer (
the iron workers and codefendan
Miss Eu1a Hitchcock, Californi
woman detective, who was employe
as a special United States deputy ma
~ shal during the Los Angeles dyn
We mite Investigations, told of serving G
d' Mrs. Flora Caplan, wife of David Ca
re Ian, a subpoena to appear as a wi
81, ness at the trial OF the Mcnamara
et Three days later, the woman sal
he Anton Johannsen spirited the woma
,el and her children out fof the state
IN an automobile. They went as far ;
Reno, Nevada. in the machine al
IN there Mrs Caplan was taken aboal
tn a train Chauffeur Laughed yeste
day told OF that automobile rid
ss, swearing that Olaf A. Tveitmoe hir'
him for the trip and paid him SAC
}. David Caplan, alleged to have q
companied j. B. Mcnamara when
ur- went in the launch for the nitrogel
tin, was indicted for murder in co
no. nection with the Times explosion, b
ne was never apprehended.
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