Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-01-03
CONSP|RATORS ARE
DECLARED GUILTY
THIRTY-EIGHT OF FORTY MEN
ACCUSED OF DYNAMITE OUT
RACES CONVICTED.
Men Convicted of Carrying on Reign
of Terror Declared to be unparaI-
leled in History of Country
Face Terms In Prison.

lHuldndpOHS, lnu.-lHS jury III the
dynamite conspiracy case on Friday
brought in a verdict against thirty.
eight of the defendants, all of whom
were charged with promoting explo-
sions on non-union work throughout
the land, of aiding In the destruction
which brought loss of life at Los
Angeles, Cal, and of carrying on a
reign of terror" declared to be UNI
paralleled in the history of the coun.
try.
Almost the entire executive stan Of
the International Association of Bridge
and Structural Ironworkers was con
victed. Only two officials of that
union now remain out of jail. At the
head of the list of those convicted
stands Frank M. Ryan. the president.
1t was in this union, with 1906
members, that John J. Mcnamara wal
secretary-treasurer while he conducted
the dynamitings out of which the pres
ent convictions grew.
Saturdays convictions, coming on Q
scale unprecedented in federal court
were an aftermath of the killing of 81
persons in the blowing up of the Los
Angeles Times building on October l
1910. Mcnamara and his brother
James B., the Times dynamiter, are
convicts in California
Sentence was pronounced on Mon
day by the trial judge. AS the head
OF the union whose strike was given
as the motive for promoting the dyna-
mite plots, Frank M. Ryan was sent
enced to seven years Imprisonment.
the heaviest sentence of all. He is
president of the iron workers interna-
tional union.
Eight other men, all affiliated with
Ryan, were given prison terms Of six
years each; two men were given four
years each; twelve men three years
each, four men two years each, six
men, including Edward Clark, Gin
cinnati, a dynamiter who pleaded
guilty, were allowed their liberty on
suspended sentences.
The elimination of those who re-
ceived suspended sentences left thir-
ty-three who are to go to Leaven-
worth, where the shortest sentence
will be one year and one day.
]. e. Munsey of Salt Lake, was one
of the men convicted. Munsey was
the business agent of the local union
of the Structural Iron Workers. The
chief charge against him was that he
harbored ]. B. Mcnamara at the time
the latter was on his way to Califor-
MIA in connection with projected dyna-
hitting plots.
In addition to Ryan, the men con-
victed are: J. T. Butler, Buffalo, vice.
president of the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structural Work
ers; H. s. Hockin, former secretary
and formerly of Detroit; Olaf A. Tvet-
moe, San Francisco, secretary Of the
California Building Trades council;
Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco;
Philip A. Cooley, New Orleans; Mich
ael J. Young, Boston; Frank K. Hig-
gins, Boston; J. q. Munsey, Salt Lake;
Frank G. Webb, New York; Patrick
F. Farrell, New York; John H. Barry,
st. Louis; Paul ]. Morrin, ST. Louis;
Henry w. Beam, Minneapolis; William
II. Reddin, Milwaukee,; Michatel J..
Cunnane, Philadelphia; Richard Fl.
Houlihan, Chicago; James A cooney,
Chicago; James A. Coughlin, Chicago;
William Shupe, Chicago; Edward
Smythe, Peoria, ILL.,; James d. Ray,
Peoria, ILL.,; Murray L. Pannell, Spring.
field, ILL.,; William G. Bernhard, Gin
cinnati; MILFORD Bert Brown, Kansas
City, Mo-; Frank K. Painter. Omaha;
Peter ]. Smith, Cleveland; George An.
derson, Cleveland; Michael ]. Han.
non, Scranton. Pa; Edward Il. Phillips,
Syracuse; Charles Wachtmesiter, De.
troit; Frank ]. Murphy, Detroit; Fred
j. Mooney, Duluth; Ernest @. w.
Basey, Indianapolis; Fred Sherman,
indianapolis; Fred r. Kline, Muncie.
Ind, former organizer for the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join.
ers.