The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-28
CHANGING SCENES
OF GREAT TRIAL
Spectre of Dark Man With
Bomb Was Ever in the
Front During Weeks.
DELIBERATE MURDERS
DONE BY DYNAMTERs
Became Desperate in Their Cam.
paign-Horrible Story of Violence,
Of Discovered Burnt Fuses and
Bursted Internal Machines.

indianapolis, Ind. Dec. est was
scene blended with tragedy that con. on.
fronted those who week after week
sat through the historic dynamite
conspiracy" trials.
Now 1t was a baby crying from the
rear of the court room, where the
wives and children Of the defendants
sat; now 1t was the heavy voice of a
man seated in the witness chair and
defending himself against the charges
of nationwide conspiracy, in which
officials of union labor were deeply
concerned. Witnesses from near and
! far came and went. but those whose
fate rested with the Jury remained
there, listening to the accusations and
to the oft-repeated story OF the killing
or twenty-one people in the Los An
geles 'Times' explosion.
The court room itself seemed a Mt
ting setting for that sombre story.
Surrounded by great marble pillars,
with the daylight shut out by heavy
curtains, and the judge Installed be-
fore an allegorical painting of Justice,
that court room day after day echoed
the stories Of violence. of the discov-
cry of burnt fuses and bursted in
fernal machines, Of midnight visits by
mysterious men in alleys, in empty
houses, in lonely country roads, or on
the tops of buildings.
Dark Spectre With Bomb.
The vision of a dark spectre with a
bomb under his arm became a fam.
fliar image in the minds of those who
listened. Back Of the ratings, amid
the spectators, sat the relatives Of the
defendants. Three rows deep across
the room were the defendants. Amone
the score of attorneys sat perhaps the
most Picturesque defendant. massive
in build, f1orid in complexion, always
filling his note book when the testi.
mony was exciting; now, when the
trial Jagged. burying his spectacled
nose in Latin version of Omar Khay.
yam. He was Olaf A. Tveitmoe OF
San Francisco.
| lie Could Not t,c Trusted.
| Another man toward whom the
eyes Of the SPECTATORS often strayed
was Herbert S. Hockin. He sat apart
between bailiffs, during much Of the
trial. for he had been branded by the
court as "a man who could not be
trusted by any one" 1t was Hockin
who was named as having promoted
| the dynamiting business; 1t was Hook.
in who was accused of holding out
on the pay Of the dynamiters; 1t was
ne VINO was SalQ 10 nave caused
quarrel in the ranks Of the McNa-
maras and McManigal. and it was he
who finally was charged with "be-
traying for his own gain" those with
whom he once associated. and with
whom he was affiliated in the iron
workers union.
Gray-haired and old beyond his
years sat Frank NJ. Ryan, president
Of the iron workers union by virtue
of which office he was leader in ma.
tional labor circles, with seat in the
councils of the American Federation
of Labor.
McManigal. the self-confessed dy.
namiter, for weeks occupied the wit
ness stand. relating. calmly. decisive
ly and without any apparent concern
for himself narrative Of violence
seldom equalled.
What .NntcccGcnts Were.
And what were the antecedents OF
this trial?
Back in the summer of 1905 dyna'
mite was found at New Haven. Conn.
on a job on which non-union work
men were employed. Later the iror
workers union called strike on sew
eral contractors. and the strike be-
came general. That was the begin
ming, according to the government
and It spread until Mcnamara organ