Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
Alleged Dynamiters to
Know Fate Tomorrow,
is Belief.
JUDGE GOES ON RECORD
Says He Will Not See Punished
Any Man Whom He Knows
to Be Innocent.

Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 26.-It was
understood at the opening of the "dyn-
amite" trial today that the cases of
the 40 defendants would go to the jury
late this afternoon.
Judge Anderson viii deliver in
structions to the jurors. The Judge
intimated he would give specific in
structions as to certain defendants.
THE court will not see punished
any man whom it knows to be inno-
cent" said Judge Anderson in open
court. But others must take the con-
sequences whether or not they are Of
ficials of labor unions. This is not
trial of labor uAions, but of labor un-
ion officials accused of wrongdoing"
With the probable retirement of the
jury tonight, court will adjourn until
tomorrow, so the verdicts, if reached,
could not be reported until tomorrow.
Near the close of his argument At
tCrney Miller charged that 'all Off
cials of the international Association
of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
on trial here knowingly catered into
a nefarious conspiracy"
CHRISTMAS DAY ATTACKS.
Christmas day was spent by the 40
defendants in the dynamite conspir-
acy" case in listening to attacks upon
them, and on their counsel. especially
United Sta es Senator Kern, by Unit
ed States District Attorney Charles W.
Miller.
Mr.. Miller was summing up the case
for the government against the labor
union officials accused OF promoting
the Mcnamara plots.
Senator Kern, who had argued be-
fore the jury for the defense, was the
target of the district attorneys denun-
cia' during the latter's speech.
Senator Kern has said in the strike
of the iron workers union against
open shop contractors it would not
have been to the advantage of those
men to blow up jObs,'' said Mr.. Miller
Senator Kern said the jobs were those
of the steel trust and it would not
hurt the steel trust, with its millions,
to damage is property.
Think of a United States senator
making a statement like that in a
court of justice. How much money
does it take to induce a United States
senator to make statements like that?"
CHARGES DEFIANCE OF COURTS.
Mr.. Miller at another place in his
pudence of the defendants and their
defiance Of the courts
with a United States senator as
counsel" he said, these defendants,
a month after this trial began, pub
/ lished in the union magazine an arti-
Gle calling the trial a farce. They de-
scribed a trial in the federal court as
farce. Listen to this. After refer
ring to the indictment of these men,
/ they published this:
/ Then began the farce of a trial
a trial in which the steel trust mas
querades as the government
Yet when l offered to give 90 min,
utes of. my time so that any of these
lawyers might get UP and say two of
their clients were not guilty, no one
/ responded. Not a lawyer dared to say
TWO of the defendants were innocent -
CHRISTMAS EXPLOSION CITED.
Once only was Christmas mentioned
before the jury That was when Dis
trict Attorney Miller referred to an
/ explosion which Ortie E. McManigal
said he caused in an iron works plant
at Los Angeles, on Dec. 25. 1910, and
which, the government alleges, Olaf
A. Tveitmoe of San Francisco ack
nowledged in a letter to ]. J. McNam
ara as "a Christmas present to the
Pacific coast"
Toys, which some of the defendants
children trundled into the fedora
building, and sprigs of holly in the
coats of men charged with dynamitins
were the only outward tokens of the
holiday season which were seen neal
the court room.
Judge Anderson had refused to ad
journ court over the holiday, because
of his desire soon to release the jury.