Arizona republican., 1913-02-27
IN
 THE WOOD TRIAL
Representatives of One of Leading Corporations of Massachusetts to Face
 Charge of ''Planting"
 Dynamite During Strike

tive of one of the largest and wealth. l jest corporations in this state being | tried upon the same charge as the thirty representatives of labor who q short time ago were convicted of conspiracy in Indianapolis will be
 presented when William Nj. Wood
 president of the American Woolen
 company. and one of the leading
 textile magnateS of the world, to-
 gether with several alleged accom-
 plices, will be tried before d jury
 in the superior criminal court of
 Suffolk county upon the charge of
 complicity in the alleged planting
 of dynamite during the strike of the
 mill hands at Lawrence. Mass, last
 spring Owing to the great wealth
 and prominent position of President
 Wood and the serious nature of the
 charges against him and the other defendants the case which is to begin next week and will probably last d fortnight or more is attracting country wide attention particularly in labor circles where the outcome of the trial is awaited with intense interest
 The commonwealth which, at the ! trial. will be represented by District 1 Attorney Joseph D. Pelleticr. charges and will try to prove that Wood and i the other defendants conspired to 1 place explosives in such manner in | the disturbed community as to dis credit the striking mill operatives ! and to turn public sentiment against l them. The trial which has many 1 unusual features. promises to be ! highly sensational
 The arrest of John j. Breen, a l member of the Lawrence school l board, upon the charge of having | planted dynamite. was the first sen | sation which developed in the con spiracy case during the strike at
 Lawrence. Breen was found guilty 1 and after quick trial was sentenced 1 to pay d fine of $5Oo. It was then 1 suspected that others were concerned | in the matter but it was seven 1 months later. long after the strike l had been ended, that the grand jury 1 found indictments against Wood and 1 several others, including Fred F.. 1 AtteauX. d dyer. Dennis J. Collins. l q Cambridge dog fancier: William II. l Rice, and East Milton. quarryman. ! A few days before the indictments
 were returned. Ernest w. Putnam. head of the E. W. Pitman company.
 one of the largest builders of textile
 mills in New England, committed
 suicide at his home in Andover d day before he was to sail with his ! family for Europe IL was rumored It the time that he had inadvertently given damaging evidence in the con spiracy case and had taken his life ] for fear of becoming entangled in the Il case. Wood and the other defendants were arrested on August 90 of last year and released under heavy bonds Naturally enough the general in- terest is centered upon William NJ. , Wood. the principal defendant and { alleged leader of the conspiracy. His life history is unusually interesting and his rise from poverty to wealth and high position presents the ele- ments of remarkable romance. In the fall of 1860 Captain Henry Pease whaIer of Edgartown. Martha $ Vineyard. brought with him to that town a poor Portuguese from Fayal one of the Azores. who had shipped as cook on the captains vessel The mans name was Jacintho. but he soon changed il to Wood in honor of d man who had befriended him and had supplied him with q fisher mans outfit William Jacintho Wood soon married and on April ;, 1861 their eldest child, William M. Wood was born. The boy was bright anC , his father tried his best to give hiT an education. Jacintho did not thriv, in the raw New England climate ant after he had worked for q few years as fisherman, cobbler and steward or
 one of the Sound boats. he died al
 New Bedford of tuberculosis.
 William M. Wood was eleven years old when his father died and he hal } to quit school and go to work Fol ! three years he worked in the office ! of the Wamsutta mills and displayed { great ability Then he worked foI { three years in the mechanical depart { ment of the mills and acquired . thorough knowledge of the milling work His next position was that o } bookkeeper in J A Beauvais' bank | After a few years he became assistan manager of some wooden mills in Fal ! 1 River When Dr. Frederick Aver. tho patent medicine manufacturer, was ] 1 obliged to take over the Washington IllIl III IlNTeHCe, DtCduSe IlldI fISbl' { tuition could not repay certain loans } Wood was made assistant manager o { that mill. He also became acquainted { with Dr. Ayers family and married ! the doctors only daughter. Backed | by his father laws wealth William { NJ. Wood soon expanded his activity { and with remarkable business. aDilit, { succeeded in organizing the American ! Woolcn company upon q substantia ! basis and making it a well paving ! corporation. His salary as presiden of the company alone is said to b' ] SfU0, 900 year and his other interest: { in mills and other industrial anC financial institutions are estimated tc be in the millions.
 q Here is a message of nope an( }i good cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin Si Boone Mill Va, who is the mothe { of eighteen children. Mrs. Martin s was cured of stomach trouble ant $i constipation by Chamberlain's Tab ~ lets after five years of suffering, ant