New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-29
WOOD TOOK PROSPECT
Of ARREST AS A Joke
Made testing Remark When He
Heard That Warrants Were
To Be Issued.
DENIED HAVING DYNAMITE
Wouldn't Know 1t if He Saw
It, Caller Testifies He Said
-Atteaux Praised by
Witness.

/ Boston. May 2s-Several points favor
| able TO the defence were brought out to-
| day at the trial OF William VI. Wood
president OF the American Wooden Com
pany, Frederick +. Atteaux. a Boston
| dye manufacturer, and Dennis J. Collins
a Cambridge dog fancier. who are ac-
cused of having conspired with John j.
| Breen, a Lawrence undertaken, and FL
nest ". Pitman, an Andover contractor
10 discredt the Lawrence strikers By
planting" dynamite
! Fred y. Chandler, special justice of the
Lawrence police court. testified 10 attend
ms peace conference between Lawrence
mill representatives and citizens which
! was held in Boston on the cay the dyna-
mite was found. Wood was one OF those
| present.
Two or three weeks later The witness
with two other members Of 'he citizens
committee, called on Wood At his Boston
! home for another conference. Atteduy
and two other men were at the house
| During the evening Wood was called to
tho telephone and the witness heard him
say in q tone Of surprise:
you gay there is a warrant fcr my
arrest? | don't know any thing ab 'ut
dyraD tic. ! never had any dynamite.
neyc: sew any dynamite. / would not
know stick Of it ii / saw l..
Wood told his callers he ta1 been iE-
! formed that warrants were 10 he issued
fnr the arrest Of mill men. Insulting Kim
self relative TO the dynamite plant. and
ADDED This adds to the gayety Of the
AFFAIR"
Max Mitchell banker. Of Boston
whose direct examination vas apparently
intended 10 show intimacy between Wood
/ and AtteauX, was used on cross-eXamina-
ton as a character witness for AtteauX.
Mitchell told OF AtteauN's endeayors to
bring about a settlement, and said that
1t was due 10 the efforts Of the dye
manufacturer that many conferences be-
tween strikers and company officials were
held
Atteaux, he said, shared his own views
that the strike was the result OF a mis-
understanding, and that a settlement
could be arranged as soon as each side
should realize the others position.
Several times during the trial the prose-
cutor had examined witnesses concerning
the whereabouts Of Charles 4. Hardy. an
official Of the American Wooden Com
pany. and Orvlls Reddig, formerly en-
ploycd by Wood as a chauffeur. but
without receiving any information. To-
day three police officers testified they
had been unable 10 serve a summons on
Hardy. and a Lawrence police inspector
testified similarly as 10 Reddig, who, it
appeared lived in January. 1912. in a
house on Woods Andoyer estate.
Daniel Mahoncy Mr.. Woods general
man. was called by the District At
torncy 10 tell about the conference At
Woods Andover home. He said Wood
arrived at his Boston home from the
woollen company's office early on the
afternoon Of January 9. lie was i'll,
but in the evening he went to Andoyer
in his automobile Wood stayed az
Andover over night and came back 70
Boston with AtteauX in the morning.
The conversation between Wood and At
,eaux was about the letter drawn up at
the conference and sent to the papers.
and about the prospects for settlement
of tho strike