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DYNAMITE CASES
HEARD ON APPEAL
Plea Made For Thirty Union
Labor Officials.
OUT UNDER HEAVY BONDS.

dered In indianapolis Last December
Be Set Aside--Appeal Revives Story
of Nation Wide Plot Which culrni
mated Fatally In Los Angeles.
Another chapter IN the nation wide
story of the dynamite plots which ex-
tended throughout the country and
eliminated in the fatal explosion in
Los Angeles in 1910 was begun when
the case OF thirty Of the convicted
men was called before the United
States circuit court of appeals in Chi
cago a few days aro.
Thirty of the thirty three labor union
officials who were adiudged equally
guilty with the Mcnamara brothers In
promoting explosions asked that the
present court set aside the verdicts
rendered at indianapolis last Decem-
Der and that they be given Il new trial.
Opposed TO them. the federal govern
ment asked that the convicted men
be sent back to prison at Leaven-
worth. Kan. to serve out their terpls.
A sentence of seven years the heavi-
! est penalty of all. hangs over Frank
| NJ. Ryan. who Is ont on $4,000 bond
pending this appeal He was given the
| longest term. Judge A. b. Anderson
at indianapolis said. because he was
president OF the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structura iron
workers. out of whose funds the ex-
penses of the dynamiters were paid.
Seven Get Six Years Each.
Six years Imprisonment is the peu-
| atty which Olaf A. Tveitmoe Of San
Francisco and each of six others ask
to be set aside Tveitmoe is a labor
leader prominent on. the Pacific coast.
I He and the six other men were given
the second longest terms because they
were found guilty of voting to ap-
propriate the unions funds for dyna-
hitting nonunion work or nrtualy aid
ing John j. and James B. Mcnamara
In explosions ON the Pacific coast.
The other prison terms. most of
which have been suspended pending
the appeal. vary from four years to
one year and one day. Three days of
the present court were devoted to the
hearing of the appeals and the govern
ment's opposition. s-.-
When the argument was concluded
! Judges Kohlsaat. Baker and Seaman
took the petition under advisement
and will render their decision later
1t is understood that should the pres
ent appeal be adverse to the convicted
I ,x,sll Ia .;e.I 10 ha ITnifa1
States supreme court.
Basis of the Appeal.
The basis of the appeal as submit
ted to the court by Chester B. Krum
Of St Louis and Elijah N. Zoline Of
Chicago, the counsel. was:
That under the federal statutes there
is no such crime as the conspiracy of
which the men were convicted-viz,
conspiracy to violate the law against
the interstate shipment of explosives
on passenger trains.
That there being no such conspiracy
the defendants could not have been
guilty as principals in the carrying Of
explosives by Ortie e. McManigal and
the McNamaras.
That the defendants did not have Il
4 fair trial.
District Attorney Charles w. Miller
of Indiana had charge of the govern
ment's case. the brief of which con-
tanned more than 700 pages.
Among those who are not appealing
is Herbert S. Hockin. now serving n
six year term at Leavenw0rth. He
was called the Iago of the conspiracy.
1t was charged that he not only car
ried dynamite and nitroglycerin in II
suit case. but that he gave information
to detectives while in the confidence
of his co-conspirators. At first he ap-
peared among the defendants at the
trial at Indianapolis. but later he was
abandoned by his counsel and was
kept In Jail before the case went to the
jury.