Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-06
Case Will Co
 To Jury Today
TRIAL OK PRESIDENT WOOD
 WEARS THE END.
BREEN IS DENOUNCED
Counsel for Defense Accuse Him in Their Argument of Being Periurer and BlackmaiIer-Lied to Police.

Boston, June 5-The dynamite con-
 spiracy case, in which President Will lam M. Wood of the American WoOlen
 company Frederick E. Atteux and Dennis J. Collins, are on trial charged with planting explosives at Law
 renee to discredit the textile strikers
 in 1912, will be given to the jury to- morrow The defense completed the presentation of it's case today and the court sat until well into the night to arguments. Judge John c. Crosby will make his address to the jury to- morrow morning. The jurors will then retire to deliberate upon their verdict
 Breen's Testimony Attacked. Tn their arguments, the three att torneys, Henry F. Hurlburt for Wood.
 Daniel H. Coak1ey for Atteux and Dis, trict Attorney PeNetier for the com-
 monwealth, made an issue of John J. Breen, the Lawrence undertaken who was fined for planting the explosive Breen charged that Atteux paid him $700 to plant the dynamite which was furnished by Ernest w. Putnam. a building contractor who committed
 suicide after being summoned before the grand jury, MT. Hurlburt and MT.
 Ceakley maintained that Breens con- fessions of falsehood made him un- worthy of belief, while the district at
 torney warmly defended the credibilt-
  Charged Breen With Perjury. Mir. Hurlburt was the first of the trio to be heard, He argued that the practically nothing He declared
 that all the dealings between Wood and Atteux during the strike at Law
 renee had been legitimate and that the payment te AtteuX at Woods direction
 appeared only on the company's pn '.
 needed to be concealed. He charged Breen with deliberate perjury and said that of the jury believed that Breen had lied that ended the ease so far t-as any charges of conspiracy were concerned.
 Accuses Breen of BIackmaiI.
 MT. Coakley mentioned various stories told. by Breen to the police re-
 garding his information concerning the hidden dynamite emphasizing the fact that all of the officers said that
 Breen had fooled them completely, and declared that only an ingenious pre- varicator could have successfully de- ceiyed so many experienced criminal l investigators for so long q time. He argued that Breen had admitted the fa1s1ty of many, of his own statements. MT. CoakIey contended~ that Breen's object was blackmail and said that he did not attempt to extort $13,000 from Atteux until after he found he could
 not get 1t from Pitman.
 District Attorney Defends Breen. District Attorney Pel1etier said that up to the time Breen was drawn into the dynamite plot he was as respect 1 ed citizen as there was in Lawrence. We admit that he lied to the police ," the prosecutor continued, 'but he kept his mouth shut concerning other per sens until he was summoned before l the grand jury of this county"
 ~Cerroboration of Rreen's Evidence.
 The district attorney argued that corroboration of Breen's story was furnished by Collins who turned states evidence at the beginning of the trial by Rice, the quarryman from whom Pitman obtained the dynamite; by At teux himself, by Pira, a taxicab driver: and by the circumstantial evidence of
 a special delivery letter which Breen | received from Boston and which Breen
 said contained s200, the second install ment from Atteux in payment for plac- ing the dynamite.