Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-02-09
William D, Haywood Among
Those Accused of Schemes
to Interfere With ProSeCu-
! ton of War.
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP
RESIDENCE CAUSES PROBE
Letters and Literature Exam
ined by Sacramento Grand
Jury Indicate Scope of CAM
paign Planned by Order,
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Sacramento, Calf, Feb. S.-Three
indictments, one of which charged
fifty-five persons with conspiring
with William d. Haywood and other
Industrial Workers of the World
leaders to hamper the government in
its prosecution of the war, were re-
turned here today by the United
States grand jury. The report OF the
Jury terminated its investigation OF
the activities of alleged Industrial
Workers of the World taken into Gus
todv here in connection with an in
curry of federal authorities and the
Sacramento police into an attempted
dynamiting of the residence of Gov
ernor William D. stephens the night
of December II last.
Arrest Leads to Raid.
A second indictment charged Will
liam Hood and George Voetter, who
were arrested here December ~
while carrying a box containing nine
sticks of dynamite, with having ex-
plosives in their possession unlawful
ly. A third true bill charged Hood
with illegally transporting dynamite
on a passenger train engaged in in
terstate commerce.
1t was the arrest of Hood and Voet-
ter that led to raid on the Industrial
Workers of the World headquarters
here in which number of men were
taken into custody and a large
amount of documentary evidence was
seized. Much of this evidence was
presented to the grand jurby while
the probe was being conducted and
some of it was quoted in the conspir-
acy indictment which was returned
today.
Many Already in Jail.
Forty-six of the fifty-five persons
indicted today, including Hood and
Voetter, have been in custody here
since late last December. TWO of
them-Frank Reilly and Louis Tori
are wanted on similar charges
named in an indictment returned in
Chicago, according to federal author
tiles.
The names Of nine of the fifty-five
were placed on secret file because
they had not been arrested. Five of
these, John w. Preston, United States
District Attorney announced in court
were involved in charges of conspir-
aCy to violate the espionage act. dis
missed recently in San Francisco.
The indictment charged the de-
PENDANTS with a general conspiracy
by threats, assaults and intimida-
f,a, 4;
Industrial Workers of the World lit
erature to obstruct the activities of
the organization known as "Militants"
and REBELS" Violations of various
sections of the penal code and war
regulations and proclamations, in
Guiding the enemy alien and selective
draft acts also were alleged.
Threats Are Charged.
The defendants also were accused
of an organized conspiracy to "injure
and oppress certain citizens of the
United States by threats and intmi-
dation."
Letters mailed to some of the de-
PENDANTS were reproduced in the in
dictment. Some of these were from
industrial Workers of the World pris-
oners in the Cook county Jail in Chi
cago. They urged men on "the out
side to greater effort in their work"
as the best means of helping their
fellows in Jail in Chicago" Two of
these letters were signed by G. A.
Roberts and James Rowan, who are
awaiting trial on indictments re-
turned in Chicago.
Telegrams sent to P. II. johnson.
assistant United States district attor-
rey, who conducted the investigation.
by Albert Fox and Frederick Esmond
of San Francisco, remonstratine
against alleged inhuman treatment of
the men in custody here, also were in
corporated in the indictment. Fox
and Esmond signed their names as
members of the Industrial Workers
of the World defense committee.
A poem belittlisg American soldiers
and alleged to have been written by |
Miss Theodore Pollak of San Fran
cisco, was introduced verbatim in the
indictment