The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
ALL GUILTY
EXCEPT TWO
Thirty-Eight Out of 40 of the
Defendants
In the Dynamite Conspiracy
Case Are Convicted.
ONLY BUCKLEY AND SEIFFER7
Are Acquitted by the Verdict of
the Jury.
Charge Was Completely in
Work of the McNamaras.

Indianapolis, Dec. 2S.-Thirty-eigh
labor union officials today were found
guilty of completely in the McNamara
dynamite plots. including the wrecking
of the Los Angeles Times building.
Frank NJ Ryan, president of the In
ternational association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers was among
those convicted.
He with others was accused of using
+he unions funds to destroy the prop
ertv of contractors who refused TO
recognize the union.
Two defendants, Buckley and Seiffert,
were found not guilty
Guilty on All Counts.
All those adjudged guilty were
found guilty of all the counts as
charged in the indictments.
The Jury was discharged and court
adjourned until 10 a. m. Monday, at
which time sentences Will De I'M
posed.
the court room, the 3S prisoners were
taken in custody by deputy United
States marshals and special detec-
tives and were taken to the Marion
county Jail.
= men out of the forty labor union Of
ficials to be adjudged not guilty, inn
mediately were discharged from Gus
tody.
Those Convicted.
The following were found guilty:
Frank NJ. Ryan, president OF the
International Association or Br1dse
and Structural Iron Workers.
John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice pres1-
dent.
Herbert S. Hockin, former secre-
tary and formerly of Detroit
nCiSCO.
secretary of the California Building
Trades Council
Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco.
Philip A. Cooley, New Orleans.
Michael ]. Young, Boston.
Frank J. 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. Beum, Minneapolis
William E. Reddin, Milwaukee.
Michael ]. Cunnane, Philadelphia
Richard H. Houlihan, Chicago.
James Conney, Chicago.
James A. Coughlin, Chicago.
William ShUpe, Chicago.
Edward SInythe, Peoria, Ill.
James E. Ray, Peoria.
Murray L. Pennell, Springfield. Ill.
VIM. c. Bernhart, Cincinnati.
Wilford Bert Brown, Kansas City,
Mo.
William ]. Mccain, Kansas City, Mo.
Frank K. Painter, Omaha.
Peter ]. Smith, Cleveland.
George Anderson, Scranton, Pa.
Edward E. Phillips, Syracuse, N. Y.
Charles Wachmeister, Detroit.
Frank ]. Murphy, Detroit.
Fred ]. Mooney. Duluth.
Ernest C. W. Basey. Indianapolis.
Fred Sherman, Indianapolis.
Hiram r. Kline, Muncie, Indiana,
no
brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.
The following were found not
guilty:
Daniel Buckley, Davenport, Iowa
Dramatic Scene in Court.
The scene just before the appointed
time for the courts convening was in
tensely dramatic. Easily the most
picturesque defendant, both because of
his prominence as a labor leader on
the Pacific coast and because of his
studious habits Olaf Tveitmoe, San
Francisco sat in the very middle of the
court room, his hat in one hand and
his cane in the other Tveitmoe had
been known as the literary parsonage
of the trial because of his persistent
reading of poetry during the testimony
about dynamite plots
Rvan. the head of a union of 1900
members sat in the last row of the de-
fendants' seats, having changed his po-
occupied by Senator J. w. Kern, his
counsel. In front of him was located
] E. Munsey, Salt Lake City, accus- |
ed by the government of having as
sisted in the escape of James B. Nc
Namara while the latter was fleeing
from the scene of the Los Angeles ex-
plosion.
Among the business agents of the
iron workers brought from many cities |
was Herman Seiffert, Milwaukee. Sci /
fert's part in tn, conspiracy as charg-
ed by the government was placed while |
he was acting as business agent for
four days during the illness of W. E. !
Reddin also on trial. Back near the |
jury box surrounded by bailiffs were |
four defendants who for weeks have |
been kept in jail because their bonds |
had been set aside.
Confronting all these in court and 7
above the judges desk and illuminated (
by the soft glow of electric lights hung /
a huge allegorical painting represent |
ing Justice which the defendants had |
looked upon, as week after week they 4
heard stories of violence, assaults. riots 4
and dynamiting related on the witness
stand.
Aided in Times Plot.
The conviction of Olaf A Tveitmoe |
and Eugene A. Clancy, of San Fran
cisco, and ]. z. Munsey, of Salt Lake
City, sustained the governments
Los Angeles explosion n which 21 per-
sons were killed and assisted in the
escape of James B. Mcnamara in his
flight from the scene of the crime.
BY its verdict the jury also sustained |