The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-04
DYNAMITE CASE
IS SET OFF
Jurors Arc More Like Prisoners
Than Arc the Men Who
Are to Stand
Trial.
TWO DAYS READING
Opening Statement Consists of soc
Typewriter Pages and Will
Take Some Time
to Make.
TWO DAYS READING

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
FEDERAL COURTROOM, INDIAN.-
APOLIS, Ind. Oct. 4-District Attor-
ney Miller today was prepared to con-
sumo the whole day with the presen-
tation of the governments dynamite.
conspiracy case and he promised that
when five o'clock came he would not
be through. Six hours Of continuous
talking, broken by an hour end a half
for luncheon was the program that
Miller laid out for himself.
The jurors, when they were led in
by two bailiffs, surrounded by deputy
marshals, secret service men and
4 special agents of the department of
Justice, We're not any more cheerful
than their oaths required, because
they bore with them the memory Of a
night in confinement on the first
night Of their service and Judge An
derson said they would be kept to-
/ gether until the case is closed AS it
i was conceded that the dynamite trials
would last at least three months, the
/ jurors were aghast when they heard
/ the courts order. 1t usually has been
the practice to allow jurors to sep
arate until the case was submitted.
4 The jurors will virtually be prison
ers during the entire hearing and will
leave the federal building only for ex-
ercise. The new structure here, one
of the most modern in the country,
has sleeping quarters for Jurors on
1
taken out for their meals when they
prefer and will be served IN their
) rooms when they ask 1t.
i I'D rather be defendant than a
juror" said William K. Benson, of De
troit.
District Attorney Miller's opening
statement covered 500 typewriter
pages. He said 1t would take him two
days and possibly longer to read it.
Today's installment set forth in
chronological order what the govern.
ment expected to prove. He said that
tn, dynamite conspiracy on which the
indictment was based covered five
years, beginning in 1906 He told how
:. John j. Mcnamara, secretary-treasur.
er of the iron workers employed Ortie
McManigal, the informer, to do Jobs
of dynamiting in Boston, Hoboken
how Frank G. Webb of New York
wrote to Mcnamara, asking him tc
send his friend" east for two other
: er Jobs Miller said that friend
meant McManigal, and the "jobs'
were the dynamiting of viaduct in
Hoboken and of new theatre in
Boston.
Miller then took up the work Of
! Edward Clark of Cincinnati. who, he
said, the government would show
: pulled off 'jobs" in Dayton, Ohio ant
: elsewhere, at the request of H S
). Hockin, Of indianapolis.
! The price of dynamite Jobs, Miller
said, was SIPS.
Miller was interrupted by Senator
: Kern when he said that John J. Nc
Namara was serving sentence "fol
Il murder" and also when he said tina
q by virtue of his office as president o
7 the International Association o
!, Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
= Frank M. Ryan was a member of thu
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor. Miller Withdrew
!, both remarks.
Attorney, Harding for the defense
u objected to Miller setting forth thu
5 results of the alleged explosions.
"The indictment charges the inter
y state transportation of dynamite h
y said, ''and the amount of the damag
done is prevalent
at is irrevelant whether the explos
ions caused two dollars or two milliol
: dollars damage" Judge Andersen
said, "and no evidence as to tn
amount of damage will be presented
but you cannot well separate the et
!, feet from the cause in an openin
: statement. The objection is oyel
: ruled"