Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-06-05
Co-Defendant With William
Wood Taxes Witness Stand
in Answer 10 Accusation Of
PLANTING Dynamite,
ICONSPlRAT0R WANTED
$4,000 HUSH MONEY
Statements Under 0aIb Con-
tradict Testimony lniro-
duced by Government in
Prosecution Of Manufacturer

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Hoston. Mnss.. Juno i.-Frcderick
T.. Attcaux. co-defcndant with rresl-
dent william NJ. Wood of the Ameri-
can Wooden company and Dennis
Collins in the dynamite conspiracy
trial. told his story to the jury today.
lie denied emphatically that he had
conspired with the other defendants
and with John j. Breen ana the late
Ernest w. pltmnn to eplant' dyna-
mite at Lawrence to prejudice pub
lie opinion against the striking textile
operatives last yenr
The greater part Of his recital
dealt with his relations with Breen
the Lawrence undertaken convicted
Of placing the explosive, who testified
that Atteaux hired him to do the work
and that Pitman furnished the dYna-
mite. In many respects AtteauN Il
testimony dovetailed that of Breen'
though the witness denied all crimi-
nality and insisted that portions oil
Green's testimony were absolutely
false
Atteaux intimated that Breen had
inveigled pitman into the dynamite
plot and that when the exposure came
and Broen was made the defendant
in "a number of civil suits growing out
Of the arrests of porsons on whose
premises the dynamite WAS found
Broen tried to hlaekmai the witness
and Wood TO raise money 60 settle
the suits.
Atteaux said the Ainerican Wooden
comrany had accepted his oiier -
assist in settling the strike. lle was
introduced TO Green over the tele-
phone by Asa Korhey. q syrian in the
nav of the wooden company. Bfeeh
later called on him in Boston and, at
Rrcon's request he telcphoned Plt-
man to meet l}rocu in AtteauNs Of
flee. lie left Green and pitman to-
gethcr and then the dynamite pi"t
probably was Matched Brcen, several
months later demanded $4,000 ana
threatened "an explosion if the
money was not forthcomine
The witness accounted for his
movements on January 49, 1919, me
day the conspiracy IS alleged to have
had its inception and denied that he
was the person driven in iaNican
from Woods Boston house to Frank
lin and Washington streets whore
Rfccn charged that AtteauX paid hlm
$500
The cross-examination by District
Attorney Pellcticr was brief AtteauN
said he could only explain l'reen 81
purpose in coming to him because ne
thought he could reach Mr.. Wood
"easiar through me than through mt
man"
'rhe witness declared the American
Wooden company paid him $1,000 for
his services during the strike. because
Wood thought that the company ought
not 10 be under obligations to anS
person from whom it was buying mcr-
chandisc.
Testimony that Brcen had lied to
tho police authorities regarding the
dynamite was given by state Officer
EiNO W. lynn as i'''t ~ Wv
fensc's plan To dlserodit irecn as u
witness. and two employees Of a taxi.
cab company were called IN an at
tack upon the vcracity Of Arthur
picra. "A taxicab chauffeur. who had
tcld Of a trip from Woods house with
a passenger resembling Atteaux on
the night Of January 10, 1912.
John J. Walsh, q Lawrence attor-
ney representing two Of the plaintiffs
in the civil suits against Breen, testi-
fled he had agreed with Brecns at
tornoy to settle the suits for $500
each but that Breen kept postponing
payment The defense has sought to
show that Brcen could have settled
the two suits for 5000 when ne was
endeavoring to obtain $4,000 from
Attcaux.