The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-28

Oh nance OF a hired "dynamitine crew,
cost money Mcnamara ia alIeeed :,
IL nave appealed to the union for frndo
ID ane in this way, the government
Is charged' others became implicated
X for instance. the government set Out
n Vnat the union executive hoard dacid
n ca at last to allow Mcnamara $1,000
a month, for which he would be re
quired TO give no accounting. Letters
k also were written which, the govern.
l. lnent asserted, showed certain business
o agents recognizing the "dynamiting
e crew" as regular institution, sent
a word as TO what jobs should be blown
t UP. All the indicted officials were
: declared by their letters to be "linked
: together in guilt"
ms was the case the government
a' tne opening of the trial, asserted II
haa 70 place before the jury. 1t was
stated that the trial, in the number
Vi uefendants, in the fact that the de-
remnants were allied with labor I'M.
IONS, In the nationwide extent of the
conspiracy and in its ramifications,
was unprecedented. McManigaps con.
iession, detailing twenty-one explo-
siohs which he said he personally
caused, was scrutinized to determine
IN what minute particulars corrobora-
tive witnesses were needed.
me witnesses came from almost
every city. Dozens of them were
brought from the Pacific coast to re.
main on the stand only few minutes.
cufley-headed, dimple-cheeked girl,
CARRIED In pink dress, was called from
North Randall, Ohio, to point out in
the courtroom Peter J. Smith and
George (Nipper) Anderson of Cleve- |
land' as men she saw going up lone
iy road with box shortly before an !
explosion at North Randall. A me.
chanic came from Hawaii to tell Of
overhearing certain of the defendants
discuss proposed explosions in Detroit.
An engineer came from Panama to re-
count his experiences with Hockin.
Men who drove livery wagons, check
boys in railway stations, who cared
for suit-cases, filled with internal ma
chimes, hotel clerks who booked" the
McNamaras and Mechanical for rooms
detectives, stenographers, contractors
who suffered from explosions. and
telephone operators, all related pice-
meal their knowledge of the defend
ants conversations or movements,
which the government undertook to .
weave into completed story to show
at once the individual guilt of each. !
and the collective guilt of all the de-
PENDANTS.
One by one the defendants heard I
the charges repeated against them. t
Tveitmore heard his name mention 7
ed often. He was accused as having t
Captain and Schmidt to help v
blow up the Times building He was s
named as having sent word to Nc, s
Namara the month after the explosion v
hat things were all right on the a
coast" and as having requested the D
iynamiters again be sent to Los An I,
relies, later acknowledging another ex- a
'losion there on Dec. rs, 1910, as "a Il
christmas present" Mechanical said
lie called at Tveitmoe's office in San I,
Francisco, but met only Eugene A. q
fancy there. Anton Johannsen was n
mentioned by witnesses as having ii
lelped Tveitmoe. William ]. Burns N
estified he told Mayor Alexander of fl
los Angeles the day after the explo- m
ion, that "Tveitmoe and Johannsen m
we're behind it," Testimony about a,
ohannsen was permitted on the NJ
round that though not defendant, nj
he had been shown to be a conspira- w
Dr." h,
]. E. Munsey, Salt Lake City, was D;
harged with harboring the Los An a,
eles dynamiter for two weeks. A nj
ailor in Salt Lake City said he altered til
lothes for the dynamiter, and other
illnesses said they saw Munsey, also re
nown as Jack Bright" and McNa- &C
lara together.
Clancy was again mentioned as be- to
Ig in Boston when the Pacific coast pI
xplosion occurred, and as hurrying al
est after telegraphing clean house." w
leaning, as the government charged, la
} destroy evidence. H. w. Pohlman fe
Seattle was mentioned as bringing CO
-cNamara and Clancy together in that an
ty. tn
OF all the defendants Herbert S. M
ockin was probably the most con or
,icuous in the testimony. pa
The story of Hockn, as told, was:
S an organizer for the union he in ex
iced McManigal to do dynamiting. ig
hen he began to hold out" on the W,
ny allowed McManigal for jobs. This H,