Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-28
He Sits Apart.

In a Latin version OF omar khayyam.
He was Olaf A. Tveitmoe OF san frah-
cisco.
He Sits Apart.
Another man toward whom the eyes of
the spectators often strayed was Herbert
g. Hockin. He sat apart. between bailins,
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 pro-
NOTED the dynamiting business: 1t was
Hockin who was accused OF 'hoiding OUT
on the pay OF the dynamiters: II was he
who was said to have caused quarrel
in the ranks Of the NcNamaras ana NC
Manigal and 1t was he who finally was
charged with 'betraying for his own
gain those with whom he once asso-
ciated. and with whom he was animated In
the ironworkers' union.
Gray haired and old beyond his years
sat Frank NJ. Ryan, president OF the iron
workers Union, by virtue of which OF
nee he was leader in national iao DOT
circles. with seat in the councils OF the
American Federation of Labor.
McManigal, the self-confessed dyna'
inter- for weeks occupied the witness
stand. relating. calmly, decisiveiy ana
without any apparent concern for himseit
a narrative Of violence seldom equaled.
And what were the antecedents of this
trial?
Back in the summer of 1905 dynamite
was found at New Haven. Conn. on a
job on which non-union workmen were
employed. Later the ironworkers union
called a strike on several contractors. and
the strike became general That was the
beginning, according to the government.
a "dynamiting crew." Altogether. 100 eX-
plosions occurred, those at Los Angeles
being among the number.
C~sro:darc.s N6fad
Two striking condolences attended the
trial.
One was that October 1. 1911. exactly
| one year after the Los Angeles Times
| building was blown up. with loss OF
twenty-one lives. the federal authorities
at Indianapolis first considered the posi-
bility of prosecutions for illegal interstate
shipment of dynamite and nitroglycerir
| gals confession. obtained after he and
| the Mcnamara brothers had been ar
rested, implicated others as having actu-
| ally carried explosives in suit cases or
trains, or as having entered into CON
| spiracy. This indicated, sin District At
torney Charles w. Miller's opinion. the
| necessity for a grand jury investigation
| Indianapolis was the headquarters o.
| John ]. Mcnamara. secretary Of the iron
workers. union. and the point at which
tered into and from which the explosives
were carried.
Another coincidence was that the tria
began October 1, 1912, the second ami.
versary of the Times explosion. The
federal grand jury. after several months
| investigation, returned indictments agains
| fifty-four union labor officials. Before
| the defense began it's case this number
had been reduced to forty-one on account
| of various eliminations.
Charges scrutinized by Jury.
All the 100 explosions came in for scru.
tiny by the jury here. and the field OF
Angeles
who caused those explosions" was
| the question before the jury.
| Broadly the charges were that ]. j
Mcnamara began them and thought
them an effective means of fighting
| "open shop contractors. Make the dam.
age as heavy as possible McMantga
said always were his instructions. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth OF
property was said to have been destroyed
| Finding the maintenance Of hired 'dy-
namiting crew" cost money, 'McNamara
| is alleged to have appealed to the union
| for funds, and in this way, the govern
ment charged. others became implicated
That was the case the government, al
the opening of the trial, asserted II had
| to place before the jury. 1t was stated
that the trial, in the number of defend
ants, in the fact that the defendants
were allied with labor unions, in the ma
tion-wide extent of the conspiracy and
in its ramifications, was unprecedented
McManigafs confession, detailing twenty
one explosions which he said he personal
ly caused, was scrutinized to determine
in what minute particulars corrobora tive
witnesses were needed.
Witnesses From Every Quarter.
The witnesses came from almost every
city. Dozens of them We're brought from
the Pacific coast to remain on the stand
only few minutes. A curly-headed, dim
ple-cheeked girl. CARRIED in a pink dress,
was called from North Randall, Ohio. to
point out in the courtroom Peter j.
Smith and George CNipper Anderson of
Cleveland. men she saw going up a
lonely road with a box shortly before an
explosion at North Randall. \ mechanic
came from Hawaii to tell of overhearing
certain of the defendants discuss pro-
posed explosions in Detroit. An engi-
neer came from Panama to recount his
experiences with Hockin. Men who
drove livery wagons, check boys in rail-
way stations, who cared for suit cases
filled with internal machines; hotel clerks
who booked the McNamaras and Nc
Manigal for rooms. detectives. stenogra-
plosions, and telephone operators, all re-
lated piecemeal their knowledge of the de-
PENDANTS conversations or movements,
which the government undertook to
once the individual guilt of each, and the
collective guilt Of all the defendants.
One by one the defendants heard the
charges repeated in detail against them.
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