The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
Verdict Is Awaited in Dyna'
mite Conspiracy Case.
Fate of the 40 Defendants May
Be known Today.
TRIAL HAS LASTED 3 MONTHS
Thousands Tried in Vain to
Witness the Close.
Court Room Was Too Small to
Admit Spectators.

indianapolis. Dec. 27-Verdicts in the
dynamite conspiracy cases may be
returned today.
Government officials were confident
that before night the jurors would be
able to return their findings in the
cases of the forty labor union officials
who are accused of assisting in and ap-
propriating s., 900 a month for the serv-
ices of one hundred dynamite and
nitroglycerin explosions carried on by
the Mcnamara brothers against the
employers of nonunion labor in Los
Angeles and other cities.
From the fact that Federal Judge AL
bert B. Anderson instructed the jury to
carefully consider all the evidence in
the case which required three months
10 present. attorneys for FEank NJ.
RYAN president of the Iron Workers
International Union and the other de-
feirdants, were of the opinion that the
Jurors may not be able to find verdicts
within "a hours after their retirement
In authorization of development at $3.50
A. m. when court was to open and when
all the defendants were ordered to ap-
pear. one hundred special deputies and
bafliffs were stationed about the corrf-
doris of the federal building to keep
back the crowds.
Thousands of people have trled IN
vain to witness the closing scenes OF
What the government contends is the
most important trial involving iaoOr
I1nion officials ever held in a federal
court- Judge Anderson's court room Is
comparatively small, being occupied
almost to it's capacity merely Dy the
40 defendants, members of their ram1-
lies. attorneys and newspaper cores
pondents. The room occupied by the
Jurors day and night for three months
is reached by a -pecial stairway not
accessible to the public.
on the same floor with the jurors are
Ortfe E McManigal and Edward Clark
confessed dynamiters. McManigal upon
whose confession the government laid
the basis of its charges that labor
union officials violated the federal laws
urohibiting the transportation OF ex-
pIosives on trains is to be returned
TO the custody of Los Angeles county,
Cal. as soon as the trial ends mere:
His recreation since his being brought
here as '1oen' from Los Angeles
county has been exercise on the roof
and carving picture frames out of cigar
boxes. Clark who confesse to blow
ing up a bridge at Dayton is to be
sentenced after the verdicts as to the
other defendants are returned.
List of Defendants.
The defendants are:
Frank NJ. Ryan, president Interna-
tionaI Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers.
John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice presi-
Herbert S. Hockin, former secretary
and formerly of Detroit.
Olaf A Tveitmoe, San Francisco,
secretary of the California building
Trades council
Eugene A. clancy, San Francisco.
Philip A Cooley, New Orleans.
Michael J. Young, Boston.
Frank ]. Higgins, Boston.
J. Z. Munsey, Salt lake City, Utah.
Frank c. Webb, New York.
Patrick F. Farrell, New York.
John H. Barry, St. Louis.
Paul J. Morrin, St Louis.
Henry w Legleitner, Denver.
Charles n. Beaum, Minneapolis.
Herman G. Seiffert, Milwaukee.
William E. RedGing, Milwaukee.
Michael J. Cunnan, Philadelphia.
Richard H. Houlihan, Chicago.
James Cooney, Chicago.
James H. Coughlin, Chicago.
William Shupe, Chicago.
Edward Smythe, Peoria, Ill.
James z. Ray, Peoria, Ill.
Murray L Pennen, Springfield, Ill
Daniel E. Buckley, Davenport, Ia.
William G. Burnhardt, Cincinnati.
Wilford Bert Brown, Kansas City, !
Mo.
William J. Mccain, Kansas City, Mo. |
Frank K. Painter, Omaha
Peter ]. Smith, Cleveland.
George AnuSTSOu. S1eNSldnQ-
Michael ]. Harmon, Scranton, Pa
Edward E. Phillips. Syracuse, N. Y. !
Charles Wachmeister. Detroit, Mich. |
Frank J. Murphy. Detroit.
Fred J. Mooney, Duluth.
Ernest G. w. Basey, Indianapolis
Fred Sherman, Indianapolis
Hiram r. Kline, Muncie, Ind, form /
er organizer for the United Brother |
hood of Carpenters and Joiners
All except Tveitmoe and Kline are
NAI Wit he
unicn. Clancy, Webb, Legleitner. Far /
rel Cooley, Beaum and Young are
present or past members of the Iron /
Workers executive board and as such |
are charged with appropriating $1,000 !
to enable John J. Mcnamara, the sec (
retary, to pay expenses of dynamiting. /
Shortly after 10 a. m. Judge Ande--
son adjourned court until $3.50 o'clock /
this afternoon. This means that if /
any verdicts are reached they will not |
he received before that time