Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-19
Counsel for Government in
Argument to Jury at Dy-
namiters' Trial Said Poll
tics Interfered.
TESTIMONY WAS
ENDED YESTERDAY
Expected That Jury Will be
Given Case Week From
Friday; Vice President
Butler a Perjurer.

iQQl2napOlS lnQ., Dec l6.-' FOIL
ticians standing between labor unions
and the courts" were blamed for the
Mcnamara dynamite plots at the out.
set Of the governments argument to
the jury at the trial of the forty &C
cused bomb plotters" today.
Pronouncing the series of explosions
scattered over the country as con.
spiracy more dastardly and more
Threatening to society than the crime
OF an Individual" James w. Noel spec.
ial assistant district attorney told the
jurors they were called on to render
verdicts in the most important trial In
recent years.
"Organized crime has here appeared
to an amazing degree" said Mr.. Noel
"and 1t was carried on and 1t grew be
cause locally the arrangements OF the
law failed Had local authorities done
their duty this conspiracy could not
have spread but It appears that poll
'ticians for obvious reasons stood be.
tween labor unions and criminals and
the local courts.
"a strike of the Iron Workers was
called. Plain assaults became muir.
derous assaults then, until checked
by the local courts. Favored by poll
ticans the criminals grew holder and
fought with dynamite and nitro.
glycerine. 81
ssrhe Los Angeles Times building
was blown UP with the murder Of TWEEN.
ty-one persons. After that reckless dis
regard OF life came a wanton desire
to take life.
{"Of the 100 explosions that occurred
in the United States the government
has proved that 80 explosions were on
the property Of open shops. contract.
ors. or firms which refused to recog.
nize the International Association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers"
With J. T. Butler vice president OF
the Iron Workers international ac'
cused by the court with being per.
jurer and with him and three others OF
their number confined in Jail by in
creased bonds forty defendants In the
dynamite conspiracy" trial faced the
prospect today that their cases would
be in the hands of the jury by Friday
Of next week.
The interval is to be devoted to
argument to the Jury in which the de.
Tense and the prosecution each is al.
lowed four days and to the final in.
structions by Federal Judge Albert B.
Anderson in ordering the jury to retire
to form It's verdict.
At the resting Of the case by both
sides after a total of 750 witnesses
had been heard and $4,000 pages of
testimony taken Judge Anderson over
ruled all motions to instruct the jury
to acquit certain of the defendants but
the Judge stated in the cases Of James
Cooney, Chicago and Frank ]. Murphy,
Detroit, and possibly others "only a
shadow of doubt" existed, although he
would leave 1t to th ejury to decide.
Besides Butler and Herbert S.
Hockin, who is accused as q "betray-
er' of Ortie r. McManigal and the Nc
Namara brothers although himself
charged with being dynamiter, those
kept in jail because of inability to pro.
duce bonds are Edward Smythe and
james E.. Ray, Peoria, Ill.
The jurors mostly farmers, have
been in charge Of bailiffs ever since
they were selected on October 8. They
are provided with sleeping quarters in
the federal building.