Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27
|POL|CE CHIEFS FIND
Articles in Evidence Against
Alleged Dynamiters.
ALARM CLOCKS AND TAGS
Exhibits Said to Have Been Prom.
erty of Bridge and Structural
Ironworkers.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. October o.
Alarm clocks, gumshoes, nitroglycerin
cans. tags from dynamite packages and
wires We're produced before the jury
at the dynamite conspiracy" trial today,
and identified by Martin J. Hyland, chief
of police of Indianapolis, as having been
taken from the vaults Of the Information.
al Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers the night that J. J. Nc
Namara was arrested
Photographs of packages Of dynamite
also were identified by Chief Hyland
All these exhibits, which We're introduced
| by the government to sustain its conten
| ton that the forty-five defendants now
| on trial are equally guilty with the Nc
Namara brothers and Ortie E. McManiga
| in causing explosions, were piled in heap:
on the floor before the jury.
Police Chiefs Testimony.
| Chief Hyland testified that on the nigh
of April % 1911 when Mcnamara, secre
| tary of the union, was arrested, Presi
| dent Frank NJ. Ryan and others of the
defendants were present. The witness
said Ryan on the advice of his attorney
had protested against search Of the
unions vaults before a warrant was pro-
cured.
Out of vault in the basement of the
Ness building. the witness testified, -four
packages containing sticks of dynamite
fuse and other articles were taken.
Il now hand you d package. State
whether it was taken out of that vault?
said James w. Noel, special counsel fol
the government.
Yes, it was. 1t contains fourteen
alarm Clocks replied Chief Hyland
The clocks were shown to the jury They
<,f
those used by the dynamiters in causing
bombs to explode several hours after
they were planted as was done in the
blowing up Of the Los Angeles Times
building.
Finds Explosives in Barn.
Chief Hyland described how on infor-
nation given by McManigal. secretly
held under arrest in Chicago, he drove to
a farm four miles west of indianapolis
and there in a barn found nitroglycerin
and dynamite packed in sawdust.
Did you notice anything peculiar about
the dynamite found in the barn." Chief
Hyland was asked.
Yes; L noticed that the trade mark
on each stick had been cut off,
Mechanical in his confession said that
the loss Of life at Los Angeles. and fear
ing they would capture James B., had cut
off the trade marks with a knife.
The witness said such anxiety prevailed
in Indianapolis after the discovery Of
the explosives that to preserve the ex-
hibitS 1t was necessary to send them to
a powder company outside the city limits.
Suit Case in Evidence.
Among the other exhibits shown the
jury was a suit case referred to by the
government as having been especially
designed to carry a twelve-quart can OF
nitroglycerin on passenger trains, and as
having been brought by Henry w. Leg
leitner of Denver. a member of the
unions executive board, from Pittsburgh
to Indianapolis.
The government also charges that at
on time in the unions vaults on the
fourth moor of the office building eighty
quarts Of nitroglycerin were stored.
Textile Company Official Summoned.
BOSTON, October 26.-John Golden,
president Of the United Textile Workers
of America, was served with a subpoena
today to appear in Indianapolis next week
as witness in the federal dynamite case.