The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-23
Sensational Testimony il
Dynamite Case Today.
Vouchers to Atteaux Signed by
Wooden Firms Head.
BLAMED IN LAWRENCE STRIKE
Said That Sentiment Was Gre
ated Against WOrkmen.
Damaging Exhibits Are Of
fered in the Trial.

Boston, May 23.-Checks and
! vouchers showing payments made by
| the American Woolen company to
| Frederick z. Atteaux, including S505,
| ''for expense incurred during the Law
renee strike,'' were introduced by the
state today, at the trial of William NJ.
Wood, president of the American
Wooden company; Frederick E. At
teaux, manufacturer of dyes, and Den
mis- ]. Collins, dog fancier, for con-
spiracy in connection with the textile
strike of 1912 in Lawrence.
The vouchers indicated that the
payments were authorized by Presi-
dent Wood. The check for S505 was
drawn on March %, 1912. another
check for $2,1O0 was drawn on June
26, 1912, and the voucher for this was
marked "In full for all claims to date"
Both checks were endorsed by Atteaux.
The exhibits were offered in support
of the government claim that the de-
PENDANTS conSpired with John J. Breen
and Ernest w. Pitman to plant"
dynamite in the homes of the strikers
at Lawrence in order to give the i'm
preston to the public that the strik-
ers contemplated blowing up the
American Woolen company's mill.
The state attempted to show that
President Wood was involved and that
the American Woolen company,
through Wood, had helped pay the ex-
penses of the conspiracy.
Signatures Are Identified.
Edward B. Lynch, paying teller of
the Federal Trust company of this
city where AtteauX had funds on de-
posit, identified Atteaux's signature on
four or five papers offered as exhibits.
Henry F. Hurlburt of counsel for Mr..
Wood, objected to their admission as
evidence. He argued that the exhibits
were not competent until connection
were established between the papers
and the alleged conspiracy. The dis
trict attorney replied that the papers
would speak for themselves, and
would show payment of money from
one defendant to another.
Judge Crosby admitted the exhibits
with the understanding that they
would be competent only if some con-
neetion between the papers and the
alleged conspiracy should be estab-
hShed. The district attorney read the
papers to the jury. One of them was
the check for $505, drawn on the Ma
tional Shawmut bank of Boston pay
able to and endorsed by Atteaux, and
signed american Woolen company,
w. A. Currier, assistant treasurer"
Accompanying the check was an Amer
lean Woolen company voucher on which
Atteaux's signature appeared and which
was a receipt for $505, for expenses
incurred during the Lawrence strike"
according to the inscription on it. The
voucher also bore the words" Approved
William NJ. Wood, president.
Another exhibit was a check for ST.
100 drawn on the Beacon Trust COM
pany. Boston, on June 26, 1912, payable
to and endorsed by Atteaux. This
check bore the signature of William
H. Dwelley, Jr., treasurer of the Amer
lean Woolen company. The voucher
which accompanied the check bore the
approval of Mr.. Wood and an inscrip-
ton on it said, I'm full for all claims
to date"
The district attorney then called Will
liam H. Dwelley, Jr., treasurer of the
company and questioned him. Mr..
DweIley told of being called into Mr..
Woods Office one day when the latter
told him that he had settled in full
with Atteaux. At Mr.. Woods direc-
ton, Dwelley made out the check and
voucher. That was the day, he said,
on which the company was paying the
attorneys in connection with the Law
renee strike affairs.