The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-18
Woman Tells Indianapolis
Detective Agency of Con-
spiracy to Blow Up Fed
eral Building.
ARGUMENTS IN THE
DYNAMITE CASE ON
Assistant u. S. Attorney Op-
ems with a Review of AL
legged Intrigue Scathing
Arrangement.
(National News Association)

(National News Association)
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 18.-Rumors
of a plot to blow up the federal build
ing caused considerable suppressed ex-
citement this forenoon while the dyna-
mite conspiracy trial was in progress.
II was reported that the county
grand jury had began investigating
the suspicious actions of several men.
U. S. Marshal Schmidt acknowledge
ed he had heard the rumor but denied
the federal officials had taken cOgni-
zance of the matter. Judge Anderson
said he had heard nothing about it.
The reports were started by a woman,
who telephoned the Graves detective
agency that such plot was on foot.
After informing the jury of the dis
charge of Defendant Clarence e. Dowd
of Rochester, Judge Anderson this
morning ordered opening arguments
in the dynamite conspiracy case to
proceed.
Noel Makes Argument.
Special District Attorney Noel open
ed for the government. He began with
from its incipiency and followed by
connecting the various defendants
Herewith.
There has never been such an i'm
portant case tried in history. said
Noel. I'VE have the statement of Her
bert S. Hockins that there was de-
termination by the Ironworkers' Off
cials to teach the public lesson by
blowing up the Beaver, Pa, railroad
bridge under loaded passenger train.
There was a determination that
steel and iron structures could not
be erected without union labor.
There was an organized effort to
produce explosions on open shop work
which made it necessary to transport
high explosives. We have the state
ment of McManigal that there was a
plot hatched to blow up the entire city
of Los Angeles and then burn it."
Noel called attention to extracts
from letters written by the defendants
and said that when men write about
lawful propositions they use lawful
language. He classed the conspiracy
as an Infamous violation of the law. He
referred to the fight between capital
and labor only briefly.
Check on Explosions.
"Since the arrest of the McNamaras,
as one witness testified, there has only
been one explosion on structural steel
works in the United States" said
Noel, "and we have shown that be-
tween April 8, 1905, and April %, 1911,
ninety-two explosions occurred. We
have shown that the funds of this Or
ganization were used to buy explos-
ives, which were later transported in
violation of the law"
Noel called attention to the testi-
mony of witness Eckhoff, who told OF
a plot by J. B. Mcnamara to blow up
Mary c. Dye, J. j. McNamara's form
er stenographer and reputed sweet
heart, on a passenger train. Beginning
with the first explosion caused by Nc
Manigal in Detroit, June 25, 1907. he
continued through the long list of dep
relation confessed to by the dynamite
informer. There We're S3 explosions
on work of contractors who We're not
members of the National Erectors' as
sociation, and never had any chance
to join it, and so you see this conspir-
acy was not directed against the Ma
tional Erectors' association alone"