The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-12-19
PERJURY IS AGAIN
CHARGED IN CASE
"DYNAMiTE WITNESS HELD FOR
TEsTIFYING FALSELY
At INDIANAPOLIS,
TELLS ANOTHER STORY.
Thomas Tassart, Democratic Chief.
Also Appears on Stand
Evidence as
Taken.

Indianapolis. Dec. 16. - Jail on
charges of perjury for Frederick w.
Zeiss, Chicago, a union iron worker;
the testimony of Thomas Taggart,
Democratic national committeeman,
about an explosion, and speeches and
reports in which the iron workers in
ternational union was accused of ap-
proving of the defiance of law in it's
strike, are the latest developments
at the dynamite conspiracy trial.
Zelss, the second witness for the de-
tense to be held to the federal grand
jury on charges of perjury, was a
roommate of Ortie E. McManigal,
when McManigal blew up a building
in Detroit in June. 1907.
Charged with Changing.
He is charged with telling the truth
before the federal grand jury last win
ter when the indictments in the dyna-
mite cases were returned, and with
testifying falsely now in an effort to
impeach McManigal's confession.
Last winter the district attorney
said Zeiss asserted McManigal never
had confided to him about explosions,
which was in accord with what Nc
Manigal had said. Yesterday Zeiss
testified Mechanical not only confided
In him, but also offered to "split up"
with him if he (Zeiss) would help do
the dynamiting.
Kern Cross Questions Him.
In response to questions by Senator
John w. Kern of the defense. Zeiss
testified that McManigal had told him
all obout the explosion, had invited
him to go to Bloomville, Ohio, to pro-
cure more dynamite, and had said
Herbert S. Hockin would pay both Of
them for future "jobs."
His narrative completed, Zeiss was
passed to the government.
Mr.. Tageart on Stand.
Mr.. Taggart's appearance was for
the defense. He said ten days before
an explosion on a building in the
course of construction at French Lick,
Ind, on March 20, 1911, Fred Sherman,
a union business agent who is a de-
PENDANT, talked with him about union
Ing the job and the question of union.
izing it was considered when the ex.
plosion occurred. Senator Kern put
questions to Mr.. Taggart as tending to
show there was no motive for the de-
PENDANTS to blow up work when it
soon was to be unionized.
The government repeatedly objected
to Mr.. Taggart's testimony as "incom-
petent and irrelevant"
Did you know any arrangements
were on to blow up the job?" asked
the district attorney.
Il knew of none," answered Mr..
Taggart.
"All you could do was to request
the contractor to unionize it so it
would not be blown up. Is that it?"
Il didn't know it was to be blown
up
: And you don't know who blew it
up, do you? That's ALL"
The explosion was charged to James
B. Mcnamara.
Speeches made by Emil Seidel, then
Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, before
the convention of the International AS
ISOLATION of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers in Milwaukee in September
1911, and referring to the arrest of
John ]. Mcnamara, the dynamiter, as
a kidnapping" and reports before the
iron workers convention at Rochester
N. Y, in September, 1910, the month
before the Los Angeles Times building
was blown up, were introduced by the
government through the examination
OF Paul ]. Morrin, st. Louis, a defend
ant.