The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-22
THE DYNAMITE
CONSPIRACY
TRIAL IS LIVELY
One Sensation After the
Other Develops When F.
E. Etteaux Tells How He
Paid Parties to Fight
Strikers With their Own
Weapons"
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Boston. May 21.-Frederick E. Et-
teaux, a dye manufacturer and CO.
defendant with President William w.
Wood, of the American Woolen Com
pany, in the dynamite conspiracy trial,
hired John J. Breen, a local undertaken
to plant" explosives in buildings oc-
cupied by the striking textile opera
tives. according to Breen, who testified
for the state today.
Atteaux, the witness said, gave him
$500 before the dynamite was placed
and made a second payment of $2oo
some time later
Breen said that he had a conversa-
ton with Atteaux after the dynamite
had been placed. Il asked him. said
the witness, IF Mr.. Wood knew any
thing about the matter and he said
that he did not
Breen testified that he said to At
teaux. 'if l were fighting those fellows.
(meaning the strikers) I'd fight them
by their own methods" Atteaux. he
said, asked him if he meant dynamite
and he replied dynamite or anything
else"
Ernest Pittman, of Andover, a build
er, who committed suicide when the
grand jury began it's investigati ton
was named by Breen as the person
who delivered the dynamite to Breen
and to Dennis J. Collins. the third de-
fendant, who yesterday turned states
evidence.
On cross examination the witness
said he had never conspired with
Wood, Atteaux or Pittman to injure
any person or property.
Breen saw the dynamite sticks made
up in small bundles.
Collins knew what I was going to
do" said the witness, because | had
told him that we were going to place
dynamite around Lawrence"
Collins put the bundles in a suit case
and they entered sleigh. "One bun
die" said the witness, was left at
Assafs (the tailor shop of a Syrian)
Then we went to rs A Lawrence street,
where I told him to put a bundle in an
Italian printing shop. The place was
closed and no dynamite was left
there"
The reason Breen selected the print
ing shop was because 1T was the cen
ter of a district where the strikers and |
the police had had frequent clashes" |
he said. He said dynamite was left in
st. Mary's cemetery, but denied that
he told Collins to put the explosive |!
near the Arlington mill.
The witness then telephoned Inspec- |
tor Rooney of the Lawrence police |
that he had located two places where !
dynamite was hidden.
The first testimony connecting either
Of the defendants with the dynamite :
was given by John J. Breen, when he
look the stand this morning. He tes-
aim if he could obtain some dynam mite.
In an endeavor to connect President
William NJ. Wood, of the American
Woolen Company and Frederick E. At
eauX with the alleged conspiracy to ;
liscredit striking textile workers at
lawrence by planting" dynamite in
buildings occupied by strikers in that
,ity in January 1912, the prosecution
allied John j. Breen, a Lawrence un- |
iertaker. to the stand today.
Breen, who was member of the
lawrence school committee, when the
lynamite was found, was fined $500 in
he Essex county court several months
go, upon conviction of unlawfully hid
ng the explosive.
Testimony that Breen had paid him
500 for planting the dynamite was
-iven yesterday by Dennis J. Collins,
co-defendant with Wood and At
lis testimony did not connect either
Wood or Atteaux with the alleged con-
piracy.
ensational testimony, a great crowd
ried to gain admission to the court .
DOM today, but the attendance was ;
esses. attorneys and a few holders of
asses issued by the district attorney ]
T the sheriff
Breen said he knew both Collins and
.tteaux. In January 1912. the month
Z the textile strike, he met AtteauX
t the latter's office in response to a
elephone request. This was a few |
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