Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-28

scrutiny ~ TIE jury here. AM the field
OF operations extended from Boston 10
Los Angeles.
| Who Caused Explosions.
| who caused those explosions?" was
the question before the jury.
| Broadly the charges were that ]. ].
Mcnamara began them and thought
| them an effective means of fighting
l"open shop. contractors. Make the
damage as heavy as possible" McMan-
ligal said always were his instructions.
Hundreds OF thousands Of dollars
worth of property was said to have
/ been destroyed. Finding the mainte-
nance Of hired "dynamiting crew.
cost money, Mcnamara is alleged to
have appealed to the union for funds,
and in this way, the government
charged, others became implicated. For
! instance, the government set out that
the union executive board decided at
last to allow Mcnamara $1,000 a month
for which he would be required to give
no accounting. Letters also were writ
ten which, the government asserted,
showed certain business agents, recog-
nizing the "dynamiting crew as a reg
Inlar institution. send word as to what
| jobs should be blown up. All the in
dicted officials were declared by their
letters to be linked together in guild"
That was the case the government, at
the opening Of the trial, asserted it had
that the trial, in the number Of defend
ants. in the fact that the defendants
were allied with labor unions, in the
ton nf hn St1i af,,r
land n its qualifications, was unprece-
dented McManigals confession, de-
failing 81 explosions which he said he
personally caused, was scrltinized 10
determine in what minute particulars
lcorroborative witnesses We're needed.
The witnesses came from almost
4every city Dozens Of them were
brought from the Pacific coast to re-
main on the stand only a few minutes.
a curly headed, dimped-eheeked girl,
CARRIED in a pink dress, was called from
North Randall, o., to point out in the
court room Peter ]. Smith and George
(Nipper) Anderson, Of Cleveland, as
men she saw going up a lonely road
with box shortly before an explosion
Il at North Randall mechanic came
from Hawaii to tell Of overhearing Ger
tain Of the defendants discuss proposed
explosions in Detroit. An engineer
came from Panama to recount his ex-
tperences with Hocsin Men who drove
livery wagons, check boys III railway
lstations, who cared for suit-cases.
TITLED with internal machines, hotel
clerks who "booked' the NIeNamaras
land Mechanical for rooms, detectives.
tstenographers, contractors who suf-
fered from explosions. and telephone
operators, all related pfecemeal their
knowledge Of the defendants CONVEX
Esations or movements, which the gov
ernment undertook to weave into
completed story to show at once the In
ldivtdual guilt of each, and the collec-
tive guilt Of all the defendants
One by one the defendants heard the
charges repeated against them.
Name Frequently Mentioned.
Tveitmoe heard his name mentioned
often. He was accused as having fur
nished Caplan 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 We're all right ON the
coast, and as having requested the
geles, later acknowledging another ex-
plosion there on Dec. Is. 1910. as "a
Christmas present" McManigai said
he called at Tveitmoets office In san
Francisco, but met only Eugene A.
Clancy there. Anton Johannsen was
mentioned by witnesses as having
helped Txeitmoe. William ] Burns
testified he told Mayor Alexander, of
T - \, IL
sion, that T,veitmoe and Johannsen
We're behind IT. Testimony about Jo-
hansen was permitted on the ground
that though not q defendant, he had
been shown TO be a eonspirator"
]. Z. Munsey. Salt Lake City. was
charged with harboring tile Los Ange=
les dynamiter for two weeks A tailor
IN Salt Lake City said he altered
clothes for the dynamlter. and other
witnesses said they saw Mnnsey, also
known as lack 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.
10 destroy evidence H. ". Pohnan.
&c Seattle. was mentioned as bringing
Mcnamara aud Clancy together in that
city
Hoctin Conspicuous IN Testimony
OF al tile defendants Herbert s.
Heekin WINS probably THE most eenspie-
aous IN tire testimony.
The story Of Hoekin. as told was
As an organizer for the union he in
dneel MeManigal to do dynamiting.
Then he began to hold out. on tile
pay allowed McManiga1 for jobs. This
Resulted in quarrels, and the Mona. |