Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-12-28

reduced to forty-ons on account oe
Various climinationA
~ a motive for tho crimes charged
the government referred to tho stFika
against employers OF non union labor,
consisting OF bridge. vlRduct ana
building contractors who maintained
AN open shop" policy empioSin9
workmon regardless OF whether they
belonged to tho union or not. This
strike never has been called OF. It
WAS alleged that n warfare waEed ~
the union spread all over the country
until violence was roBorted to, or. a.
was stated. "pickcting spread TO alug-
ging slugging to dynamite, aud dyna-
mite 10 nitroglyCerln."
VI, Namara. at tho headquarters ioe
the union In indianapolis. although
later named by witnesses ne tho active
preparation ut tho exploaioaa, was
then unr's"cCted by the conkTactoRn.
liui the advent OF MoNaniSat HTat
James u. Mcnamara, brother OF the
union secretary. as roBulagly hired
dNnamiicrH. working under John J.'a
direction. and. AZ MoManlgal charges,
with Hockln'H loadership, the oxpio-
alOnA became 80 bold az TO nrouaa
suspicion that they were the work
OF an organized band.
Detectives already had been work
Ing on tho case when the killing of
twenty-Ons people In Loa Angeles by
IA bomb SGT on at 1 o'clock In the
morning, showed that the desperation
Of tho dynenIters had reached the
murder stagS. N.
Much OF the evidence that maa pRa4
cmded at Los Angeles by the pleas ot
! guilt by The McHumAEa b,sJtfacrnecaaffa
out here. Federal Judge Albert b.
Anderson ruled that while the spe-
cinc charges we're illegal tranapoEta-
tion all other evidence relative tO ex-
plosions might bs offered as showing
II motive The testimony was that
the destruction OF tho Times building
was not strictly n part OF tho cam
puign against nOn.union iron and
steel work, hut wns done In an eRort
tn uniunlEc various trades In Los An
gel, James l. McNamara, who sot
the mb was ~ printer. witnesses
stated thut Mcnamara afterwards OK
pressed little regret that twenty. .one
people were killed, and, In fact, ax-
pressed isnppuintment that no had
not Killed Gcn. Harrison Gray Otis.
proprietor of the Times; that the dy-
nnmlter was sent To tho coast at the
solicitation Of TveilmOe. a recognized
union labor leader. and that Tveitnoo
furnished David Caplan ana NJ A.
schmidt. who we're also indict ID for
murder hut who never were captured
Al the 100 explosions came In for
scrutiny by the jury here, and the
fold at operations extended from Bos-
, ton to Los Angeles
, who caused those explosions
, waH the question before tho Jury.
broadly the chaTgos were that J. j
, Mcnamara bcgpn them and thought
them nn effective meanB OF nghtine
open shop" contractors, Make thS
damage aS heavy az possible" Nc
Mnnigul said always were his lnstruo
tlunH. Hundreds OF thousands of dol
!. lars worth Of property was said u
have hcon destroyed. Finding ths
nnlnt 0pHnCc OF hired "dynamltina
crew" cdul money, Mcnamara ID al
! logged tO hhyC appealed 10 tho unloi
for funds. ana In this way the govern
mrnt charged\ others became imph
% Gated For instance, the government
70 IBct out that the union executive honr'
u decided at lust to allow McNamar'
- 900 IA month, for which ha wouh
y he required To- give no accounting
l. Letters also were written which, tn
i" lgoynrnmunI asserted, showed certain
. business agents. recognizing the "dy
nnmltlng crew" as u regular institu
q ton, sent word aH to what Jobs shoull
= be blown up. All the Indicted OF
nrlalu were declared by their letter
u Ia bo linked together In guilt"
That wau the case tina government
I, at the opening OF the trial. asseFte
l. IL had to place before the Jury.
n was stntou that the trial. In tho mum
Ie ber OF defondantB. In tho fact that th
iH dcfendunts were allied with labo
r. unions, In tho nationwide extent q
D. the conspiracy. and In ita rAmthca
IN tIonB. was unprecedented. McAani
n gals confession. detailing twenty-ou
~ explovlons which he said no peraou
IN ally caused was Hcrutlnlzed 10 detoi
~ mlns In what minute particulars col
T. roborathp w,tnoHses we're AeNded.
I'd The witnesses came from almo'
In every city. Dozens OF them wei
~ brought from the PCcitc coast 10 u
I'd main ON tbs stand only = f0w ulit
M uton. A curly headed. dsnaple.rheohe
a. girl. Karbsd In 4 pink dress, va
's called from North Randall, o..
an point out In the court room Peter
I'd smith and ueorgo (Nipperl Anaerae
% OF Cleveland, as men she saw aalA
up a lonely road with = han iaAert
he before an explosion a. North Hal
no dali. A Tnechanic came from HAVE
X 10 tell OF oVerhoarlnS certain q q
or defendants discuss Proposed QMrl
n HiOns in Detroit An enHineef c4N
n from Panama q racOunt hta NR
10 IttuCea with Hoehln. Mnn who
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