Arizona republican., 1912-10-02

 1905 to 1911, during which time more than 100 explosions in states scattered from Massachusetts to Cal ifornia occurred in works under con- struction by employers of nonunion labor
 Fffty-four men were indicted last February, but John J. McCray. of Wheeling. w. Va, never has been located and the McNamara brothers are in prison in California.
 The courtroom which probably for weeks will be the scene of the trial. has Ioong been ready. Every precau tion has been taken to secure quiet. The windows of the small room, To- cated on an outside corner of the second floor of the federal building, have been heavily curtained to ex- cIude the daylight. Recently Judge Anderson had the walls and ceiling thickly padded with felt to improve the sound conditions.
 United States Senator John w. Kern has been retained as counsel for the defendants, while the gov ernment will be represented by Dis trict Attorney Charles w. Miller and his assistant
 Sixteen defendants were placed under $10,O00 bonds each, to appear for trial and the others each under $5,OOO bonds, making an aggregate in bonds of $350,000.
 Witnesses are to be called from many parts of the country. While it is not the intention of the gov ernment to go thoroughly into the cases which resulted in the impris- onment of the McNamaras, all that part of the evidence of the Pacific Coast explosions as pertains to the illegal interstate shipment of ex- plosives has been made available by the district attorney.
 Each of the 32 indictments re- turned last February contains char ges against all of the defendants, and the charges are embraced in three groups. They are:
 Transporting dynamite and nitro glycerin in passenger trains from one state to another; as Ortie Me ManigaI confessed was done when these explosives were carried in suit cases from hiding places at Muncie, Ind; Rochester, Pa; Tiffin, O., and Indianapolis, to cities where jobs" were to be blown up.
 Conspiring to violate interstate regulations relative to explosives.
 Concealing knowledge of the con spiracy or abetting the illegal trans portatiOn of explosives.
 Most of the explosions of which the government has made a record were directed against members of the National Erectors' association, an organization of constructors who had broken off relations with the union and were conducting "open shops" The first explosion or attempt re- corded was at Miller's Falls, Mass, in the summer of 1905 and the last October Is, 1911, when at two a. m near Santa Barbara, Gal, 39 sticks of dynamite with a fuse were found be- meath a bridge just before a special train bearing President Taft passed over Twenty of the explosions oc- cured in Ohio.
 McManigaPs confession was the the basis upon which the govern nent founded it's case before the fed eral grand jury which returned the indictmets. And it is expected to figure prominently in the present trial Tn it McManigal confessed:
 That Hockin came to him in De- troit in 1907 and induced him to blow up a "job" there, afterward paying him a regular fee of $125 for each job McManigal had worked in a stone quarry and, he said, it was because of his familiarity with ex- plosives that he was selected
 That Hockin accompanied him on trips and pointed out works that were to be blown up, afterwards in troducing him to James B. McNa- mara, who became McManigars s