New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-28
WOOD At PEACE TALK
ON NIGHT OF PLANT"
American WOODEN Company's
President Again Scores
Point at Trial.
WROTE PLEA TO STRIKERS
No Motive for Discrediting
Them, Defence Seeks to
Show-Telephone Rec
ords Ruled Out.

Boston. May G-Evidence was intro
| duced to-day to show that on the night OF
January 49, 1912. during the hours when
the prosecution alleged William NJ Wood.
president Of the American Wooden Com
pany, and Frederick r. Atteaux were fur
thering conspiracy to plant" dynamite
at Lawrence. both defendants were at
tending conference of mill agents dur
ing which an appeal TO the strikers to re-
turn 10 work was agreed upon.
The prosecution has sought 10 prove
that Wood. Atteaux and Dennis J. Col
Inns conspired with John J. Breen and
Ernest W. P1tman to prejudice public
| opinion against the strikers and 10 that
end had planted" dynamite discovered
on the day mentioned above.
The evidence regarding the conference
was brought out during the cross-exam-
ination OF Walter NJ. Lamont, agent OF
the Wood mill, one OF the American Wool
. on Companys plants at Lawrence. on
direct examination the witness said he
saw Atteaux at Woods home at Andover
the night OF January l9.
Edwin Farnham Greene. treasurer OF
the Pacific Mills ard president OF the Ma
tional Association Of Cotton Manufactur
ers. was the only person at the conference
who was not connected with the Wooden
Company.
General strike conditions were discussed,
Lamont testified. and two letters were
read. revised and approved. One of the
! letters was ever the signature OF Mr..
/ ,fxgr
TO return 10 their machines The other
was from Mr.. Wood to Father Milanese.
pastor Of an Italian Catholic church at
Lawrence. and gave the company's side
Of the labor controversy.
| The letter 10 the operatives was pre-
pared for publication IN the Lawrence
newspapers Of the following morning.
the witness said. The defence then intro
l'duced a clipping from a Lawrence morn
| ing paper OF January ~ in which the
I text of the communication appeared. A
copy Of the letter 10 Father Milsnese was
also introduced and both were read 10
| the jury.
Earlier in the day Judge John c. Crosby.
! ruling on objections entered by the de-
fence yesterday. refused 70 allow the in
PRODUCTION OF a record of telephone toll
/ calls made by the switchboard operator
! in the office Of the Wooden Company. By
this record the state hoped 10 show that
Wood and Atteaux were in communica-
ton a day or two before the explosive
was placed.
Pelletier then tried 10 show by the tes-
umony Of officials and employees OF the
American Wooden Company that Wood
and Atteaux had talked over the tele-
phone a day or two before the discovery
OF the dynamite All these witnesses tes-
titled that they could not recall any such
conversation.
Questions regarding his activities during
the Lawrence strike were asked Of James
r. Bailey. jr., manager of the American
Machinery Exchange OF Lowell. a con
Germ owned b. the American Wooden
COMPANY The witness said he told Wood
that rumors that he Bailey was con
nected with the plant were false and
that any person who said anything about
him being in a conspiracy was a liar.
George ". Simpson, who had desk be
side that OF Wood and is the assistant
treasurer and purchasing agent OF the
Aver Mil. one OF the Wooden Companys
Lawrence properties. was positive Wood
never asked him 10 get Pitman on the tel
ephone in January. 1872.