The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-19

declared that the evidence presented
before the grand jury connecting
Wood with the alleged dynamiting
planting, was Of 4hearsay nature and
utterly absurd" And they had no
hesitancy in openly asserting that
there would never have been an In
dictment returned II District Attor-
ney Pelletier had not been actively
engaged in a canvass for the nomina.
Htion for governor at the time the
grand jury acted.
Pelletier who was to prosecute IN
person, had no comment to make on
these assertions. He said that he was
willing that his case should speak for
itself when 1t was presented to the
jury. The evidence justified the grand
jury's action, he said, no matter what
the outcome.
Despite the Importance OF the trial,
the jury was to be selected from the
regular panel. Neither side had ap,
piled for special allotment and be-
cause of the power reposed by the
Massachusetts statues in the hands
OF the presiding Judge, it was believed
the jury would certainly be completed
today. If the case went to finish it
was believed the result would be
known by Friday.
Facing Justice Brown with Wood,
were Frederick q. Atteaux, Boston
manufactures of textile mill accessor.
les. i. and Dennis Collins, Cambridge
dog fancier. The three men were in.
dicted last August by a special grand
jury called to investigate the matter
/ shortly after John ]. Breen, an under.
| taker of Lawrence, Mass. and school
commissioner at the time, was found
guilty of planting the dynamite and
was fined $500 after he refused to
take the stand In his own behalf.
Before the trial opened today great
crowds filled the courthouse. District
Attorney Joseph G. Pelletier and his
assistant A. G. Webber appeared fol
! the government, Attorneys samue
I4 Powers. Daniel H. Coakley AM
! Henry T. Hurlburt appeared for th'
defendants. Since his indictmen
Wood has been at libertssr on $500
4 cash bail. The same bail was set fo
4 the other two defendants.
Breen, who was found guilty o
planting the dynamite on May Is
was expected to be chief witness fo
4 the prosecution. He willingly testi
4 fed before the grand jury which in
! dieted Wood. Atteaux and Collins
Earnest w. Pitman, an East Milto'
! quarryman, and prominent in othe
( business enterprises, was to hav
i been another government witness. ii
committed suicide, however. on Au
! gust 9th, the day before he was u
have testified before the grand jury
& Pelletier is understood to have talke'
! informally with Pitman about twelv
J hours before the latter killed himsel
: and at that time is said to have got
: ten enough information to compel 9th
ers to testify at the grand jury inves
! tigation.
1t was during the critical time i
) the historic Lawrence strike tha
J dynamite was found" by the Law
renee police shortly after Joseph E'
! ter's arrest late in January The or
was Immediately raised that the tie,
| tile strikers had brought 1t in to dynf
. mite the mills and the courthouse
The dynamite was found" on ii
. from School Committeeman Breen, 7
t the cobbler shop of Urbano di Pratt
, in the home of Joseph Assaf and !
| some bushes near the lmmaculat
) Conception cemetery 1t was onl
i after a diagram had been drawn y
, Rreen that the explosive was found
, at the cemeetry, and 1t took two trip
! by detectives to find" more Of 1t
{ the cobbler's shop. The discovery
of the dynamite occurred on Januar
: 10. Breen was arrested January 81,
j William NJ. Wood, the most prom
j, nent of the three defendants is on
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