Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-23
MAGAZINE Attacks ON
GOVERNMENT ARE
READ TO JURY
Violent Article IN Which McNamaras Are
Defended introduced as Evidence
at Dynamite Conspiracy Trial

Indianapolis, Nov. 2S.-AttAcleD on
District Attorney Miller and the gov
ernment prosecution Of the dynamite
conspiracy case. as published IN the
Iron Workers Union Magazine since
the trial began were read by Miller be-
fore the jury today. The magazine IL
the official organ Of the union. In one
article the prosecution was referred to
as follows: "On the sixth Of October
these IS defendants walked into court
and pleaded not guilty to the charges
of the steel trust. Then began the farce
Of trial, trial in which money. pres
tige and power was the prosecutor and
want and obscurity the defense. It is
a trial in which the steel trust il mas
queraded as the government"
Reference to the McNamara BROTH
ers. who plead guilty at Los Angeles.
as read into the evidence from the
magazine was: pleas Of guilty quick
ly followed their arrest In the hands
of an all-powerful enemy, with courts
and juries committed against them,
with traitors as friends and friends
as traitors. trial was impossible. The
two McNamaras stood bravely before
the world and said. Yes, we're war
riors: we fought as seemed to US best.
We fought force with force, power with
power. Maybe we used the wrong
weapon. History will tell. But We
heard the cry, the anguished cry, Of
men and women ground in steel yards.
above the voice Of caution. We stand
| ready to take the consequences Of our
act without whimper, without appeal
for sympathy"
McManigals testimony was inter-
rupted today to allow the other wit
nesses to be heard Cornelius L. Crow
lay Of Monica, Pa, told Of finding
nitroglycerin in an old cooper shop at
Rochester. Pa. It was this store Of ex-
plosives that McManigal charges was
pointed out to the authorities two
months before the Los Angeles explo-
sion by Hockin. Crowley is the wit
ness who said he had been approached
since coming.
Tells Of Other Explosions.
| Explosions on non-union iron works
| in Milwaukee, Omaha and Springfield.
Mass, were explained by McManigal
as having been done by him shortly be-
fore he and James B. Mcnamara ar
riving in Detroit to "clean up that
city were arrested with euitcases willed
with dynamite.
| For weeks before his arrest, no testi- :
fled. he had observed he was being
followed and had seen strange heads
lodging around the corners Of eleva-
tor shafts in the Ironworkers' head :
quarters In Indianapolis.
II told James B. before we started
| hat =
detectives after us. that detectives were
even coming UP near the vault where
we stored the dynamite and that one
of them followed me on the street
when was getting some dynamite
to blow up the South Chicago Job"
said McManigal.
| Mcnamara said II we saw any more
Of them. we would 60 to Chicago and
rent a room next to Burns office, put
an electric wire through the walls and
arrange to set off bomb at Burns
desk when he was sitting there. That
would end our troubles with him. he
said. I told him I did not think we
would ever do anything Of the kind or
get near Burns. That was about April
5. 1911" He and MoNamara were ar
rested seven days later.
For blowing up an unloading hoist
and damaging steamer near the
docks in Milwaukee on March 10, with
a loss of $4,000. McManisal said he
received the compliments Of John j.
McNamana for the best job he ever
did"
When he destroyed part Of the Doug
las county court house at Omaha on
March ~. he said he was scaled
down" because he did not cause the
iexplosion to occur at exactly the same
hour James B. blew up Z Job at Co.
lumbus, Ind. telegraph signal hav-
ling been arranged to send work when
he was ready to John J. at Indianap-
oils.
At John ]. McNamara's instructions,
McManigal said. he went to Sprinsfeld.
Mass, and there met Michael Z,
Young. the union official ct Boston
who pointed out . tower in the group
LOT municipal buildings he wanted blown
up.
"Young told me 10 iay the towsl
fiat on tho ground" testified lrclGan.
lisnl. He said he had had some trou-
BILE with the foreman, but said had
not come to clean mp any personal
enemies, but to blow up Job. HI
also told me $50 he had sent me II
|care Of Frank G. webb In New York
Twas q present and Herbert g. Hochin
who took that amount out 6f my PAL
;.