New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-02-03
HELD FOR BOMB PLANT
Lawrence Official Bound Over to
Grand Jury.
SEVEN OTHERS RELEASED
Strikers Ask Supreme Court to
Free Ettor on Writ of
Habeas Corpus.

Lawrence. Mass. Feb. 2-Charged with
conspiracy on two counts in connection
with the alleged planting" Of dynamite In
the homes Of textile strikers, John j.
Breen, an undertaken, who Is member
Of the Lawrence School Committee, was
bound over to the grand jury to-day after
hearing I'm the police court. He fur
nished bail in the sum of $1,000 on each
count
Seven other persons. arrested when police
detectives made descent upon the foreign
quarter and found several packages of
dynamite, were released on charges OF
keeping dynamite without license hav-
ing proved to the satisfaction Of the court
that they were not responsible for the pres
ence Of the explosive in their apartments.
In the case OF Breen eighteen witnesses
appeared for the state, including state
and local police The defence offered no
evidence. The Commissioner Of Public
Safety, Cornelius +. Lynch, who conducted
the states case, said that when the strike
started he asked Mr. Breen to use his
best efforts in the Syrian quarter to keep
matters quiet, as 1t was we'll known that
Mr.. Breen was influential among those
people Mr. Breen promised to do so.
continuing. Commissioner Lynch told the
court that on saturday January 90 Breen
came to the police station, and said he had
received telephone message to go TO Bos-
tor. Following the telephone directions, he
said he went TO Rowe's Wharf, in that city,
and met man who gave him letter
which said
you will find dynamite at No. 294 Oak
street. at No. 76 Lawrence street and In
tho cemetery"
The letter Breen claimed, was not signed
hut bore a postscript, asking that II be
destroyed, go he had destroyed II. Com
missioner Lynch then related in what man
rer the dynamite had been located by the
officers AZ the places named by Mr. Breen
\ committee Of five strikers Will walt
upon Governor Foss at the State House, in
Boston. tomorrow to protest against the
arrest of Joseph j. Ettor, the strike leader,
and his lieutenant Arturo Giovannitti.
Counsel for Ettor and Giovannitti filed
motion for a writ of habeas corpus with
the clerk Of the supreme Court at Boston
to-day seeking the release Of the two men
on bail Judge Braley said he would hear
the case tomorrow.
to-day by Professor David Evans of An
dover Theological Seminary. Cambridge,
and the Rev. r. VI. Couch. Of New York.
members Of a commission which is inves-
tigating social and economic conditions
here Some members OF the strike COM
mittee asserted that while many opera
tives receive s.. s. and s. week and are
forced to support families Of four and
five persons on these amounts. the mini
mum wage which should prevail In order
10 allow proper living conditions is SIS
week
Speaking Individuals committeeman
declared that they are absolutely OPP
posed to arbitration of the differences
existing between themselves and the
mill owners. because, they said. we don't
propose To be defeated before we begin TO
discuss our demands with the masters
They expressed their entire willingness
to meet the mill men ms general com
mittee. but objected to the presence Of any
third party or the splitting Of their
strength by dclegatinG subcommittee Of
employees If each mill to meet the agents
separately
There was ,hght increase IN the num-
her Of operatives returning to work to-day