The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-13
STATES
COURT CROWDED
BY DYNAM|TERS
FORTY-sIx PLEAD TO INDIcT-
MENTs CHARGING THEM WITH
VIOLATING COMMERCE ACTS.
All are Leaders Among Union Men Of
Country, and Charged With Crime
in Artie McManigals Confession
Nine "UnavoidabIy" Detained.

Nine "UnavoidahIy" Detained.
indianapolis, Ind, March 12.-De-
murrers to indictments against forty
SIX defendants in the governments s
prosecution OF the dynamlCing conspi-
racy We're hled before Judge Ander-
son Yhen rne prisoners were arraign>
ed in the federal court today. Eight
OF the hfry-four defendants were alb.
sent.
EllJah zoline, one of the attorneys
for he defense, began the argument
to quash the indictments On tne
groInd that many of them charged the
same offense of conspiracy to trans
port explosives from state to state il
legally.
judge Anderson interrupted Mr..
Aolme with a statement that the mo-
tlon to uash' the indictments on the
ground of confusing multiplicity was
absurd.
The motion was oVerruled,
Attorney Alfred. Hovey attacked the
indictments, denying there was a
showing that the defendants had un-
lawfully conveyed explosives on pas
sen5er trains. He declared there was
no violation of federal statutes unless
explosives were transported on COM
mon carriers, concealed in unmarked
! packages, and maintained the indict-
ments did not SO aver.
One hundred explosions destroyed
or damaged property of employers of
non-u union labor in cities from Massa-
chusetts to California between 1905
and 1911.
The most disastrous wrecked the
Los Angeles Times building October
l, 1910, and killed twenty-one men.
Most of the defendants are or for
merly were affiliated with the Inter-
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. All are al
legged to have conspired to convey ex-
plosives on passenger trains from
state to state, and the seat of the
conspiracy, it is charged, was in the
headquarters of the Iron Workers AS
sociation in Indianapolis. Fifty-fo
men were indicted by the federal
grand jury and all but eight were in
court to be arraigned this mording.
Those Absent.
Among the absent defendants are:
joan j. Mcnamara, secre1ary-treas-
urer of the Iron Workers association
since 1905, alleged to have directed
the operation of the "dynamiting
crew. from his office here, now serv-
idg fourteen years sentence in San
Quentin prison, California, for having
cons2ired to blow up the Llewellyn
Iron Works at Los Angeles.
James b. Mcnamara, now serving a
life sentence in San Quentin prison
for having blown up the Los Angeles
Times building.
Ortie E. McManigal, practical dyna-
inter-" confessedly the most active
agent of the conspirators and upon
whose information the Investigations
of the plot have largely rested, now
in Jail at Los Angeles.
Eugene A. Clancy of San Francis
co, former member of the executive
board of the Iron Workers associa-
ton, under indictment and bond in
California.
Olaf A. Tveitmoe, secretary of the
R11iIdin0 Tradoo Noupo;1 oe Ctotiqor
MIA, under Indictment and bond in that
state.
Prominent Dynamiters Present.
Most prominent among the dynamit-
ing men here are Frank Ryan Of Chi
cago, president of the Iron Workers
Association; John r. Butler Of Buffa-
10, first vice president, and Herbert s.
Hockin of Detroit, second vice presi-
dent and acting secretary treasurer.
In the confessions of McManigal,
Hockin appears as travelling superin-
tendent of the "dynamiting squad"
and custodian of the repositories Of
explosives. Hockin, according to Nc
Manigal, was the man who engaged
him to do the actual work Of dynamit-
ing before he became acquainted with
the Mcnamara brothers.
With the indicted iron workers Off
cials were four men connected with
other labor officials, alleged to have
been implicated with the conspiracy.
They are William X. Benson, former
president OF the Detroit Federation Of
Labor; Clarence E. Dowd, formerly a
national organizer OF the international
Association Of Machinists; Hiram
Cline, national organizer Of the In