Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-11-07
CONSPIRACY CASE
Secretary and Treasurer Of the
Bridge and iron Workers Ar
rsigned at Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Nov. s.
Harry w. Jones. secretary and treas
urer Of the International Association
Of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers, was arraigned before United
States Commissioner H. S. Young at
the federal building today TOR
preliminary hearing on the charge of
conspiracy to transport explosives
Illegally. The case attracted a great
deal Of attention owing to the fact
that the case will probably have an
important bearing upon the great dy-
Mantle conspiracy case and all the
labor officials connected with it. The
United States grand jury will con
yene here next week and it is under
stood that all the new evidence which
has been brought to light since the
arrest and confession of George Davis,
alias George O'Donnell, in New York
will be submitted to the grand jury
and that Davis will repeat his CON
fession before the members.
According to the confession of
George L. Davis, a union iron work
err who admitted to the authorities
in New York that he had committed
numerous dynamite outraees and
destroyed many non union structures,
at the behest of Harry Jones. who
succeeded II. S. Hockin as secretary
and treasurer of the Iron Workers
union, Jones and other officials of the
union were deeply implicated in the
conspiracy. Some of the revelations
made by Davis strongly implicate
President Ryan, who was sentenced
to seven years imprisonment at the
close of tho great dynamite conspir-
acy case last year
Davis stated in his confession that
he had been chosen to kill Walter
Drew attorney for the National Erect
ors Association in December, 1911,
and also William ]. Burns, the de-
tectiye employed by Drew to unearth
to receive $4,000 for killing Drew 1t
appears from the confessions of
Davis that the arrest of the SO Off
GERS of the Iron Workers union and
their trial and conviction did by no
means put stop TO their conspiracy
against the Erectors' association and
thai the work Of dynamting non
union structures was carried on as
before, under the direction and with
the knowledge of Secretary and
Treasurer Jones. President Ryan and
other prominent officers of the labor
organization.
Davis according to his own state
ments, was In the employ Of the I'M
ion, but was dissatisfied With the
manner in, which he had been treated
A short time before his arrest he was
working in Pittsburg, Pa. but had
some trouble with the local delegate
of the Iron Workers union over his
failure to become a regular member
Of the local union. Davis had no
union card and the local delegate re-
fused to let him work unless he paid
$26 initiation fee for becoming
member of the local union. At that
psychological moment Robert Foster,
a Louisville detective, who had shad-
owed Davis induced Davis to get
even with the union by making an
open confession of his share IN the
dynamiting outrages Davis went to
New York and there made his SEN
sational confession which threw
new and startling light upon the
dynamite conspiracy and showed that
the great conspiracy trial had not
broken up tie ring of conspirators.