The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-28
Suicide of Important Witness Is Followed by Declaration That He Made Clean Breast of Whole Frame-Up-Prosecuto Hints Strongly at Sensational Denouement in Short Time

Boston. Aug. 2s-Ernest W. Putnam, head of the big New England mill factory building firm which bears his name, who committed suicide, yester- day after receiving summons to ap- pear before secret grand jury ses- elon which is Investigating who were khe big men who were behind the s'planting'' of dynamite during the re- cent Lawrence strike. made clean brsaet''. of the alleged conspiracy to District Attorney Pelletier, accordins fo an authoritative story sent out from the district attorney's office, to-
 oolice official, close to the district Rtterney. after an hours conference with the latter, today, freely told the newspaper reporters that Putnam had nnade sensational disclosures infor- knailx'' to Pelietier and had begged that Pelletier call off the probe. The rr,licr official prefaced his talk to the rerorters by demanding thatsRis name be kept out of it."
 According to the report which the police official says is absolutely au- Ehentic Putnam named three big mill officials who met in Boston and ar ranreds the alleged conspiracy to sAplant'' the dynamite. Breen was de- elded upon as the man to do the ac- fual planting Putnam, according 10 the police official then purcnased a. the explosive from Saugus firm from which he had previously bought Nvrlau1ite for use in his building oper- ntinn@ It was given to Breen in BoA- Ion and taken to Lawrence and plant ed' there by Breen, so goes the re
 Get the .shfgler up'' was stoday's s ksloran In the grand jury investigation instituted by District Attorney Joseph r PeIlefier to find and, punish any sruiIty Lawrence mill officiais who. were behind John ! J. Breen, the de- posed school connniissioner and peai7s
 That there will be gigantic inter- akts and influence brought to bear ko hamper the district attorney tn every way in his inTestig igation and that failing in success, there Will be n general scurrying to cover by the guilty .higher ups" who were behAhd Breen. was the declaration made, to- fsav by officials connected with the. s5istrict attorneys office. Sensational s5isclosures of an alleged plot of prominent mill owners ana of1leers 10 discourage and, if possible, com pletely throttle labor, unions of all kinds in New England'se great mill renters by means of dynamite con- epiracies. it was declared, today, will Follow the present grand Jury 1nVesti- gation.
 District Attorney Pelletier declared, today, that he will carry the fnvesti-. lrafion to the very end and that he hvfii do so with a rigor and thorough ness that will spare no one who is guilty. The district attorney refused 10 say any more than that, positively, but he hinted strongly that he has in hand at the present time sufficient evidence to convict several men whose names are known nationally in fl1e textile industry.
 Briefly. the facts which8 led up to D1gtritt Attorney Pe1lctier's present investigation are as follows:
 About January IS, last, when the Lawrence strike. in which 28,000 tex file mill operatives were engaged, was a few weeks old, JohnsJ. Breen asked Boston police to go to Lawrence where Breen had purported to have located Hvnarnite sticks. Breen said the dynamite had been sent into Law renee by the strike leaders to destroy