Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-26
DYNAMITE CASE
Of 40 UNION MEN
TO Jury TODAY
Defendants Scathingly
Arraigned by Dis
trict Attorney.
SAYS ALL KNOWINGLY
ENTERED CONSPIRACY"
Riots, Assaults, Attempts to
Kill Reached Murder Stage
O at Los Angeles"


INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 26-It was
understood at the opening OF the
dynamite conspiracy trial today
that the cases of the forty union labor
men accused of promoting the Nc
Namara dynamite plots would go to
the jury late this afternoon.
At about O'clock United States
District-Attorney Charles w. Miller
is to end the argument for the gov
ernment. Federal Judge Albert B.
Anderson will then deliver his in
structions to the jurors, pi eparatory
to their withdrawal to consider
verdicts.
With the forty men accused by the
government as having had equally
guilty knowledge of the existence of
conspiracy to transport dynamite
and nitroglycerin on interstate pas
senger trains, Judge Anderson has
intimated he will give specific in
structions as to certain defendants.
With the probable retirement of the
jury tonight court will adjourn till
tomorrow, so that no verdict, If
reached, could be reported until to-
dence the jury must review and the
fact that a separate verdict must be
returned for each defendant, 1t is not
believed the results will be reported
in less than twenty-four hours. All
tn verdicts must be reported at one
time.
District Attorney Miller today con-
tinued to review to the jury Ortie e.
McManigaTs confession as dyna-
miter.
Says All Knew of NefariOus Plots.
Nearing the close of his argument,
District-Attorney Miller charged that
"all the officials of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Ironworkers on trial here knowingly
entered into this nefarious conspir
acy.
ATTENDED by riots, assaults and
even by attempts to kill, this great
conspiracy against employers who
refused to recognize the union, grew
until it reached the murder stage
at Los Angeles.
s'At the head of the conspiracy was
Mcnamara, but behind him was
President Frank M. Ryan, directing
explosions by writing letters from
New York and other cities. On the
Pacific coast were Olaf A. Tyeitmoe
and Eugene A. Clancy, directing the
work of destruction from San Fran
cisco, and showing by their letters
and movements that they had full
knowledge of the Los Angeles ex-
plosion. At Salt Lake City was ].
E. Munsey, alias Jack Bright. At
New Orleans was Philip A. Cooley,
clamoring that the dynamite cam
paign be carried to Southern States,
but disappointed because the men he
frightened.
Pointed Out Job to Be Blown Up.
"At New York was Frank c. Webb,
who failed to take the witness stand
here in his own behalf, and at Boston
was Michael ]. Young, a member of
the unions executive board, who per-
sonally pointed out the jobs to be
blown up in New England. At Buff
falo was John T. Butler, the vice
president.
"At Cleveland were the sluggers
Peter ]. Smith and George Anderson,
carrying on a reign of terror there.
And so throughout the length and
breadth of this land there was car
ried on between the international Of
ficials and local business agents a
conspiracy which was a disgrace to
organized labor. 1t was a conspiracy
of which John ]. and James B. Nc
Namara, Ortie e. McManigal and Ed
ward Clark, all confessed dynamiters,
were only a part"