The Irish standard., 1913-06-07
AT7EkUX DENIES
C0NSP|RCY CHARGE:
CLAIMS HE HAD NO PART IN DY.
Mantle PLOT At LAW.
RENEE, MASS.
CLAIM TESTIMONY is FALSE
Defense Continues Effort to Dscredit
Evidence Presented by Under.
taker as Witness for the
Prosecution.

Boston, June 5.-Frederick e. At.
teaux, co-defendant with President
William M. Wood Of the American
Wooden company. and Dennis j. Col
Inns, in the dynamite conspiracy trial,
in telling his story to the jury, de.
MED that he had conspired with the
other defendants and with John J.
Breen and the late Ernest w. Pittman
to plant" dynamite at Lawrence to
prejudice public opinion against the
striking textile operatives last year.
Gist Of the Recital.
The greater part of his recital dealt
with his relations with Breen. the
Lawrence undertaken, convicted Of
placing the explosive. who testified
that Atteaux hired him to do the work
and that Pittman furnished the dyna.
mite. In many respects Atteaux's tes.
timony dovetailed that of Breen,
though the witness denied all crimi.
nality and insisted portions of Breen's
testimony we're false.
Atteaux intimated that Breen had
inveigled Pittman into the dynamite
plot and that when the exposure came
and Breen was made the defendant in
a number of civil suits growing out OF
the arrests Of persons on whose prem.
ises the dynamite was found, Breen
tried to blackmail the witness and
Wood to raise money to settle the
suits.
Atteaux said the American Wooden
company had accepted his offer to as
sist in settling the strike. He was in
troduced to Breen over the telephone
by Asa Korbey, Lawrence Syrian in
the pay of the WOODEN company. Breen
later called on him in Boston, and al
Breen's request he telephoned Pitt
man to meet Breen in Atteaux's' Office
He left Breen and Pittman together
and then the dynamite plot probably
was Matched. Breen several months
later demanded $4,000 and threaten
ed IAN explosion" if the money was
not forthcoming.
Accounts for Movements.
The witness accounted for his
movements on January 10, 1912, the
day the conspiracy is alleged to have
had it's inception and denied that he
was the person driven in a taxicah
from Woods Boston house to Frank
lin and Washington streets. where
Breen charged that Atteaux paid him
$500.
The cross-examination by District
Attorney Pelletier was brief. Atteau1
do31 hn 1nix
purpose in coming to him because he
thought che could reach Mr.. Wood
easier through me than through Pitt
man."
The witness declared the American
Wooden company paid him $4,000 fol-
his services during the strike, because
Wood thought that the company ought
not to be under obligations to any
person from whom it was buying mer
chandise.
Testimony that Breen had lied to
the police regarding the dynamite was
given by State Officer Fred M. Flynn
as part of the defense's plan to dis
credit Breen as witness, and two
employees Of taxicab company were
called in an attack upon the veracity
of Arthur Plea, chauffeur, who had
told of a trip from Woods house with
a passenger resembling Atteaux on the
night Of January 10. 1912.
John J. Walsh, a Lawrence attorney
representing two of the plaintiffs in
the civil suits against Breen, testified
he had agreed with Breen's attorney
to settle the suits for $500 each. but
that Breen kept postponing payment
The defense has sought to show thai
Breen could have settled the two snits
for 5000 when he was endeavoring tt
obtain $4,000 from Atteaux.