Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — BOMB TRIAL NEAR END [ARTICLE]

BOMB TRIAL NEAR END

GOVERNMENT SIDE TO CLOSE TODAY OR TOMORROW. Security Company Tells Court It WIH Not Give Up Indemnity For Defendants* Bonds. Indianapolis, Ind.. X'ov. 29. —District Attorney Miller has notified the defense in the dynamite “conspiracy” trial that the government will close its case late today or tomorrow morning. Testimony of Edward Cole, storekeeper of North Randall, D., that he met the defendant, Nipper Anderson, in tbe road coming from the big ore conveyor, that had been dynamited on March 25, 1911. causing a loss of $60,000, the testimony of Robert G. M. Ross, who worked as a union organizer in Detroit, to the effect that Hiram Cline, the carpenters’ organizer, had confided to him that there was a plot to blow up five buildings, Ross’ story of his dealing with other defendants and the announcement by Attorney Miller that he had received word from the Southern Surety company, that it would not surrender the indemnity that it holds for going on the bond of Pete Smith, Nipper Anderson, J. E. Munsey. H. W. Legleitner, Frank K. Painter and £*hillip A. Cooley, were developments of the trial.

Cole testified that on the night of Marsh 25, 1911, he heard the explosion at the ore conveyor a mile and a half distant. Getting a lantern, he said he started along the road toward the ore conveyor. At a distance of 865 feet from the corner of his house, he said, he met a man with ft package under his arm. This was at a bridge. Throwing the lantern’s rays in the face of the man, he said, he took a good look at him. He pointed out Nipper Anderson of Cleveland as the man he had met that night.

The government will introduce other evidence against Anderson tending to show that the package was a carrying case specially constructed to hold a ten-quart can of nitroglycerin