Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-03
DAVIS CONFESSION MAY
Be USED IN new TRIAL
IF RYAN ET Al, NOW ON APPEAL TO
FEDERAL COURTS, GET new TRIAL
GOVERNMENT HAS VALUABLE EVI.
DENCE IN CONFESSION OF DAVIS.

New York, Oct. What nse will
be made of the purported confession
of George f. Davis. union iron work
er and dynamiter. depends largely
on the outcome of the cases of Frank
NJ. Ryan and other officers of the In
iternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, now on ap-
peal to the federl courts. Walter
Drew, counsel for Davis, here said to-
! day that if Ryan and his associates
gained a new trial, Davis revelations
would be the governments formidable
! evidence.
! 1t is intimated that the arrest of
Davis and OF Harry Jones, secretary
and treasurer of the iron workers un-
/ ion, did not end the task of the erec-
tors association. Jones, according to
connection with the dynamitine of a
dozen bridges and steel frame build
iings in the east Davis was the man
in the field. Drew insisted that his
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| to persecute the union.
"If the dynamite plot had ended
with the arrest of Ryan and his asso-
Gates he said. 'to have followed the
lunion further would have been hound
ling. But under the circumstances,
| following up the case became a neces-
! sity and could not be classed as per
secution. Davis confession showed
clearly that the dynamite conspiracy
was still in existence. All the men
convicted in indianapolis are being
paid $50 a week by the union, whether
in prison or out
According to Drew, Davis received
no promise of immunity or any favors
in return for his sweeping admissions
He added though, that the National
Erectors' Association had been pay
ing him since he gave up, what he
could have earned at the trade, about
to Davis wife. who lives here.
Davis told Detective Robert Foster,
who arrested him, that several times
While he was at work in recent months
beams dropped near him and just be-
fore he gave himself up in Pittsbure
big piece of steel from above grazed
him by inches. This convinced him
that the union wanted TO get rid of
him because it feared he would turn
traitor
Taken to Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 3.-George
f, Davis, alias George O'Donnell, con
fessed dynamiter, who was arrested
in New York yesterday, arrived here
today in custody of Deputy U. S.
Marshal Joseph Kumb. United States
District Attorney Chas. w. Millero of /
this city, and Robert Foster. detective
in the employ of the National Erec
tors association. who caused Davis |
arrest, also accompanied the prisoner
to this city.
Davis was taken at once to the fed I
eral building and his custody trans |
ferred to United States Marshal Ed !,
ward C. Schmidt. 1t was announced !
that Davis will be kept in the federal
building until the meeting of the fed !
eral grand jury next month.
The prisoner probably will use the |
cell which was occupied by Ortie f. |
McManigal, the confessed dynamiter !
who testified for the federal govern |
ment in the dynamite conspiracy trial
here last fall.
Harry Jones. secretary and treasur- !
er of the International Association OF /
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers !
who was arrested here yesterday and !
released on $4,000 bond, was at his I!
Office today but again refused to make |
a statement.