The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30
THE WOOL KING
IS INDICTED.
Charged With Conspiracy In Planting
Dynamite In Strikers' Homes In
Effort to Discredlt
Them.
ROSE FROM WORKMAN
Began Life as Humble Toller and
Worked His Way up to be a
Power In the Textile
World.

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BOSTON. Mass, Aug. 30 William i
NJ. Wood, president of the American i
Woolen Company, one Of the ]
largest textile concerns in the
world and uniquely prominent as the ]
leading spirit in the textile industry j
Of the United States, today surrend-
cred himself to Inspector Thomas j.
Lynch, of police headquarters, who
read to Wood an indictment charging
conspiracy in connection with the
planting of dynamite in foreigners
houses at Lawrence last winter for
the alleged purpose of injuring the
cause of mill operatives who were on
serike there. Wood went to police
headquarters at 10 o'clock in company
with Samuel Powers, who probably
will act as his counsel. He was at
headquarters but a few moments, go
ing directly to the courts building
across the street to be arraigned. Ac-
|cording to an agreement previously
reached with the district attorneys |
Office Wood promptly furnished $1,000
bail to keep from going to Jail with
Dennis j. Collins, the Cambridge dog
fancier, who was indicted and arrest
| ed yesterday at the time Woods in
dictment was returned to Judge
| Pratt.
Besides being president of the
lAmerican Woolen Company, which
towns the Wood. Aver and Washington
mills at Lawrence, Wood is president
and treasurer Of the National and
4 Providence Worsted Mills, in Rhode
stIsland: director of the Merchants
] National bank and Pierce Mfg. Co.,
OF New Bedford, Mass, and member
of the National Association of Wool
4 Manufacturers and the Home Market
club. He was also member Of the
i dassociation which met in Washington
i during the winter of 1908, 1901 to
4 advocate retention of the presidents s
4 tariff board and to boost schedule x
I of the famous Payne-Aldrich tariff
law, which was then perhaps the main
Issue before the country, and was one
of the important factors OF the IA
nous rules fight, which resulted in
! the removal of Cannon from the
speakership of the house.
Wood is the biggest man in the
wool industry Of the world. He draws
salary of 100000, according to cur,
rent reports Although the company
of which he is the head does not own
s all the mills at Lawrence, Woods s
2 domination of the woolen trade OF the
!, country is frankly admitted, as he
formed the woolen trust.
He Ia a multi-millionaire and has
magnificent estate in Andover
Mass, and a palatial home in Fair
: field street, Boston His offices are
+ in the Shawmut bank building in this
city.
: : Wood is the son of a Portuguese
. IMMIGRANT and he started work in thu
: lNew England mills as an operative.
, His rise was rapid and remarkable
After becoming superintendent ant
active head of several mills at Law
renee, Wood married daughter of tn
man who made a fortune out of
Z medicine he patented AS witnes
lin a civil suit last winter Wood test
% fed that he did not know how man
Z automobiles he owned.
The third man said to have bee
- indicted with Wood and Collins is r'
:, ported to be president OF big Ne
England mill. 1t Is understood tha
he is unable to appear to answer
= the reported indictment at this tim
bnt that through counsel, he has mad
arrangements to surrender himse
lat the earliest opportunity
Y Wood was in New York when il
dicted and in response to a long di
= tance telephone call from Distri'
Attorney Pelletier expressed willin
or meas to come back Immediately to O.
sal swer the conspiracy indictments,
in After he had been released on ba
Id Wood made the following statement
lis 81 am greatly surprised by the
We tion Of the grand jury ] cannot co
he ceive what information could hay
&" been presented to the jurors which
VS. any way connected me with the s
is. called dynamite plot ! certainly NJ
I'm no connection with it and this Ia
-al will be fully established at the prop
six time to the satisfaction of the publ
st and even the district attorney =
en- yond that | have nothing to say
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