Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-12-27
CROWDS IN COURT
AWAIT DYNAMITE
JURORS VERDICT
Hundred Guards in
Court Room and
Corridors.
FORTY DEFENDANTS ARE
BEFORE JUDGE ANDERSON
Most important Labor Case
Ever Tried in United
States Court.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 27.-Shortly
after 10 o'clock this morning Judge
Anderson adjourned court until 2:3O
o'clock this afternoon. This means
that II the dynamite conspiracy"
verdicts are reached they will not be
received before that time
The floor of the building on which
the courtroom is located resembled
place under guard, no one being
allowed to enter except those having
business there.
Government officials are confident
that before night the jurors will
return their findings in the cases
of the forty labor union off,
cials who are accused of assisting in
and appropriating 81, 900 a month for
the series of one hundred dynamite
and nitro-glycerine explosions car
ried on by the Mcnamara brothers
against the employers of non-union
labor in Los Angeles and other cities.
From the fact that Federal Judge
Albert B. Anderson instructed the
Jury to carefully consider all the evil
dence in the case, which it required
three months to present, attorneys
for Frank M. Ryan, president of the
| Ironworkers international Union,
and the other defendants We're of
opinion that the jurors may not be
able to find verdicts within twenty
-FOUR hours after their retirement.
Deputies Guard Court Room.
At the opening of court today, when
all the defendants appeared, one hun
dred special deputies and bailiffs
were stationed about the corridors
/ OF the Federal building to keep back
the crowds
Thousands of people have tried in
vain to witness the closing scenes of
what the government contends is the
most important trial, involving labor
union officials ever held in a Federal
court. Judge Andersons courtroom
is comparatively small, being occu-
pied almost to its capacity merely
by the forty defendants, members of
their families, attorneys and news
paper correspondents. The room oc-
cupied by the Jurors day and night
for three months Is reached by spe-
cial stairway. not accessible to the
public.
On the same floor with the Jurors
are Ortie E. McManigal and Edward
Clark confessed dynamiters. Nc
Manigal, upon whose confession the
government laid the basis of it's
charges that labor union officials vio-
lated the Federal laws prohibiting
the transportation of explosives on
passenger trains. is to be returned
to the custody of Los Angeles county,
California, as soon as the trial ends
here. His recreation since his being
brought here as a loan" from Los
Angeles county has been exercise on
the roof of the building and carving
picture frames out of cigar boxes.
Clark, who confessed to blowing up
bridge at Dayton. Ohio, is to be
sentenced after the verdicts as to the
other defendants are returned.
The Defendants.
The defendants are: Frank M.
Ryan, president of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Ironworkers; John r. Butler, Buffalo.
vice-president; Herbert S. Hockin
former secretary and formerly Of
Detroit; Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San Fran
CISCO secretary of the California
Building Trades Council; Eugene A
Clancy. San Francisco; Philip A
Cooley, New Orleans; Michael 7
Young, Boston; Frank J. Higgins
Boston; ]. e. Munsey, Salt Lake CITY.
Utah; Frank c. Webb, New York.
Patrick r. Farrell, New York; John
H. Barry. ST Louis; Paul ]. Morrin.
st, Louis: Henry w. Legleitner.
Denver; Charles N. Beum, Mime
apolis; Herman G. Seiffert, Milwau-
kee; william E. Reddn, Milwaukee:
Michael J. Cunnane, PHILADELPHIA:
Richard H. Houlihan, Chicago; James
Cooney, Chicago; James H. Coughlin,
Chicago; william Shup Chicago;
Edward Smythe, Peoria, ILL.,; James
E. Ray, Peoria, ILL.,; Murray L. PEN
nell, Springfield, ILL.,; Daniel Buck
ley, Davenport, Ia; William c. Bern
hardt, Cincinnati; Wilford Bert
Brown. Kansas City, Mo-. William
J. Mccain, Kansas City, Mo-; Frank
K Painter, Omaha; Peter j. Smith,
Cleveland; George Anderson, Cleve-
land; Michael ]. Harmon, Scranton.
Pa: Edward f. Phillips, Syracuse,
n. Y; Charles Wachtmeister, De-
troit: Frank ]. Murphy, Detroit Fred
J. Mooney. Duluth; Ernest G. w.
Basey, Indianapolis; Fred Sherman,
indianapolis; Herman r. Kline,
Muncie, Ind. former organizer for the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners.
All except Tveitmoe and Kline are
connected with the Ironworkers'
Union. Clancy, Webb, Legleitner,
Farrell, Cooley, Beum and Young are
present or past members of the IRON
workers executive board, and as such
are charged with appropriating $1,000
To enable John J. Mcnamara, then
secretary, to pay expenses of dyna-
msting.