Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-28

trial is awaited with intense interest
The Commonwealth which, at the
trial, will be represented by District
Attorney Joseph C. Pettetier charges
and will try to prove that Wood and
the other defendants c%onspired to
place explosives in such a manner In
the disturbed community as to dis.
credit the striking mill operatives and
to turn public sentiment against them.
| The trial, which has many unusual
features, promises to be highly sensa'
tional.lU H. sa5..,,
The arrest of John j. Breen, a mem.
| Der of the Lawrence School Board,
upon the charge of having planted dy'
Mantle was the first sensation which
developed in the conspiracy case dur
ing the strike at Lawrence. .Breen was
found guilty and after a quick trial
was sentenced to pay a fine of $500.
1t was then suspected that others
were concerned in the matter, but it
was seven months later. long after the
strike had ended. that the grand jury
found indictments against Wood and
several others, including Fred e. At
teaux, a dyer; Dennis J.. Collins, a
Cambridge dog fancier; William H.
Rice, an East Milton quarryman. A
few days before the indictments were
Ernest w. Pitman, head Of
the Z. w. Pitman company, n of the
largest builders of textile mills in New
England, committed suicide at his
home in Andovar a day before he was
to sail with his family for Europe.
1t was rumored at the time that he
had inadvertently given damaging evi.
dence in the conspiracy case and had
taken his life 2r fear of becoming en-
tangled in the case. Wood and the
other defendants were arrested on
August 80 of last year and released
under heavy bonds.
Naturally enough the general inter
est 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 elements of
a remarkable, romance. In the fall of
1860 Captain Henry Pease, a whaler
of E%dgartown, Martha's Vineyard,
brought with him to that town a poor
Portuguese from Fayal, II of the
Azores who had shipped as cook on
the captains vessel. The mans name
was %JacinthO, but he soon changed It
to Wood, in honor of a man who had
befriended him and had supplied him
with a fsherman's outfit. William ia
cintho Wood o 0 married and on
April s, 1851, their eldest child. Viii.
liam NJ. Wood, was born. The boy
was bright and his father tried his
best to give him an education. ia
cintho did not thrive in the raw New
England climate and after he had
worked. for a few years as fisherman,
cobbler and steward on one of the
Sound boats, he died at New Bedford
of tuberculosis.
: William NJ. Wood was eleven years
old when his father died and he had
to quit school and 60 to work. For
three years he worked in the Office of
the Wamsutta mills and displayed
great ability. Then he worked for
three years in the mechanical depart.
ment of the mills and acquired a thor.
Ough knowledge of the milling work.
His next position was that Of book
keeper in J. A. Beauvais' bank. After
a few years he became assistant man.
ager of some wooden mills in Fall
River. When DR.. Frederick AVER, the
patent medicine manufacturer, was OBJ.
liged to take over the Washington
mill in Lawrence, because that inst1.
tuition could not repay certain loans,
Wood was made assistant manager
of that mill. He soon became ac-
quainted with DR.. Ayers family and
married the Doctors only daughter.
Backed by his father in-laws' wealth
Wood soon expanded his activity ana
with remarkable business ability sue
ceeded in organizing the American
Wooden company upon q substantial
basis aud making it a well paying cor
poration. His salary as president of
the c0mpny alone is said to be $780,
900 q year and his other interests in
mills and other industrial and financ-
ial institutions are estimated to be In
the millions.
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