Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-28

particulars corroborative witnesses
we're needed.
The witnesses came from almost
every city. Dozens of them were
brought from the Pacific coast to re- 4
main on the stand only few minutes. 1
A curly-headed, dimple-cheeked girl, |
garbed in a pink dress, was called 4
from North Randall, Ohio, to point out /
in the court room Peter ]. Smith and /
George (Nipper) Anderson, of Cleve- |
land, as men she saw going up lone |
" road with a box shortly before an
explosion at North Randall. A me- /
chanic came from Hawaii to tell of
overhearing certain of the defendants
discuss proposed explosions in Detroit
An engineer came from Panama to re-
count his experiences with Hockin.
Men who drove livery wagons. check
boys in railway stations, who cared for
suitcases, filed with internal ma
chimes, hotel clerks who booked" the
McNamaras and MECHANICAL for rooms,
detectives, stenographers, contractors
who suffered from explosions, and
telephone operators, all related piece
meal their knowledge of the defend
ants conversations or movements,
which the government undertook to
weave into a completed story to show
az once the individual guilt of each,
and the collective guilt of all the de-
PENDANTS.
One by one the defendants heard
the charges repeated against them.
Tyeitmoe heard his name mentioned
often. He was accused as having fur
nished Captain and Schmidt to help
blow up the Times" building. He was
| named as having sent word to Nc
| Namara the month after the explosion
that things were all right on the
coast" and as having requested the
dynamiters again be sent to Los An
geles. later acknowledging another ex-
| plosion there on Dec. %, 1910, as "a
/ Christmas present" McManigal said
| he called at Tveitmoe's office in San
Francisco, but met only Eugene A.
Clancy there. Anton Johannsen was
mentioned by witnesses as having
| helped Tveitmoe. William J. Burns
/ testified he told Mayor Alexander, Of
Los Angeles, the day after the explo-
sion, that "Tveitmoe and Johannsen
were behind it," Testimony about Jo-
hansen was permitted on the ground
that though not a defendant, 'he had
( been shown to be a conspirator."
J. E. Munsey, Salt Lake City. was
charged with harboring the Los An
geles dynamiter for two weeks A
tailor in Salt Lake City said he altered
clothes for the dynamiter. and other
witnesses said they saw Munsey, also
known as Jack Bright" and McNa-
mara together.
Clancy was again mentioned as be-
ing in Boston when the Pacific coast
explosion occurred, and as hurrying
west after telegraphing Clean house. -
meaning, as the government charged.
to destroy evidence. H. w. Pohlman
of Seattle was mentioned as bringing
Mcnamara and Clancy together in
that city.
OF all the defendants Herbert s.
Hockin was probably the most con,
spicuous in the testimony.
The story of Hockin, as told. was
AS an organizer for the union he in
duced MCManigal to do dynamiting
Then he began to hold out" on the
pay allowed McManigal for jobs. This
resulted in quarrels, and the McNa
maras decided to have little to do with
him. Knowing this, Hockin went tc
a contractor in Pittsburgh and betray
ed the dynamiters. That was before
the Joss of life at Los Angeles. Later
Hockin worked for Burns, while still
remaining as an official of the union
! and when the federal grand jury be
) gan work in Indianapolis. Hockin tool
information to the government
The testimony at the trial resulted
in the increasing Of Hockin's bonds
so that he was confined to Jail. Hook
in asserted to those for whom he wa!
accused of acting as a spy, that h,
took no part in dynamiting, but wit
nesses from Muncie, Ind, and at Gin
: Cinnati pointed him out as the man t.
: whom they actually sold explosives.
: Hockin again was the man mos
t mentioned by Mechanical After h
i had induced me to blow up a job il
: Detroit in 1907" said Mechanical
e ''Hockin told me there was no use o
my attempting TO quit now, as the
r had the goods on me- asked hin
who was going to pay me for my work
o He said the executive board had sc
aside a limited fee of $125 for eac
- job and expenses. l told him it wa
too little for thing like that. He n
!. piled my family would be taken car
{ OF anything happened. So l wen
z to Bloomville, Ohio, and got an orde
e from Nat France to Bill Carey, VIII
l. was the keeper of a magazine wher
;. dynamite was stored for use in
s. stone quarry, and they let me hav
e some without knowing what 1 was e
J. ing to do with it. / used it to blow IL
=" a derrick at Clinton, Iowa, Feb. 1,
o 1908.
5, "Hockin two weeks later visited m
It again in Chicago and said he did nc
4. have enough money to pay expense
It for the Clinton job, but for me to e
J. to the hall OF the local union. Whe
70 went there the secretary, R. H. Hor
e Than, gave me an envelope containin
Is S165. Houlihan said There is none
D. in that"