Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 41, 28 December 1912 — Page 8
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THE KICHMOND FAilAUrCTSl AAD SUr'll2L,EG RAM. SATURDAY DECE3IRER 28, 1D12.
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IS E Only Two Defendants in the Dynamite Conspiracy Trial, Seiffert and Buckley, Were Acquitted. (Continued from Page One) tion of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. Fred J. Mooney, Duluth; Financial secretary Iron Workers Local. Feverish Excitement. A pin drop could have been heard when the jurymen took their seats in court. A tip had gained circulation that a verdict was coming at 10 o'clock and feverish excitement pervaded the building and the crowds outside. The defendants were calm but several paled when the brief verdict was read, followed by the calling of their individual names. The wives and children of the convicted men completely broke down and wept bitterly. It required but a short time for Judge Anderson to complete the proceedings by ordering that the convicted men be taken into custody and returned to court Monday forenoon, when the matter of sentences will be taken up. No appeal can be taken until that time. Penalty Is Severe. The indictments under which the defendants were convicted today contained fifty-two counts, carrying a maximum penalty of thirty-nine years and fines, according to the judgment of the court. Judge Anderson also has power to suspend sentence. The court room and corridors of the federal building were ordered cleared immediately after adjournment. The prisoners were handcuffed, each to a plain clothes officer, and the procession one block long marched from the court to the Marion county jail, five blocks away, without any demonstration on the part of the large crowds along the streets. The procession was headed by U. S. Marshal Schmidt and Chief of Police Hyland, and reached the jail at 10:tfo. Defendants Cheerful. Because of the immense throngs that gathered about the federal building and adjacent streets the matter of removing the prisoners secretly from the federal building was considered but the original plan to march them through the streets was finally carried out. During the march to the jail the defendants joked with their escorts and cheerily greeted acquaintances along the route. The wives and children of the prisoners will be permitted to visit them in jail on Sunday. History of the Case. The indictments of the accused men were the direct outcome of the arrest and confession of the McNamaras and Ortie McManigal, who acknowledged the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building on the night of October 1, 1910, at which time 21 men were killed. The overwhelming evidence yhich enmeshed these labor leaders was found in letters taken from the offices of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers. There are about 40,000 of these letters and telegrams which fell into the hands of the government, and by means of these the prosecution was able to follow the movements of the dynamiters from the very beginning of the dynamite campaign, in 1905, up to the blowing up of the Westchester and Boston Railroad viaduct at Mount Vernon last year. The determination to carry their point with dynamite, seems to have been made by the leaders of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Association almost immediately after their strike against the American Bridge company in August 1905. During that year four structures that were being erected by the American Bridge Company, were blown up. Twelve Explosions. The following year witnessed twelve ' explosions and m 190 the number fell to six. But the year 190S found the dynamiters mora active and determined than ever. According to the indictments, 29 explosions, causing loss of life as well as great material damage occurred during that year; outrages for which the defendants were held directly responsible. In 1909 the record was twenty-two explosions, and in the following year 1910, the record of twenty-nine was again reached. In this year, occurred the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building and the lamentable death of 21 men who were at work in the building at the time. Although during this year the dynamiters had wrecked the Llewellyn Iron Works at Los Angeles, the Pan American Bridge Company plant at Newcastle, Indiana, the power plant of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway at Omaha and destroyed the big metal works at Kansas City, It was the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times which focused the attention of the entire country upon the reign of the terrorists. A great detective agency with unlimited resources was put upon the trail of the dynamiters and on April 20, 1911, J. B. McNamara and Ortie McManigal were arrested at Detroit. McNamara Arrested. Two days later, J. J. McNamara, i secretary of the association, was arrested In his office here during a meeting of the executive board. Immediately following the arrest a thorough search of the offices was made and hundreds of letters were found which ;ver used by the prosecution iu secur-
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ing an indictment of the defendants. On April 26, while on the way to Los
hAngeles, Ortie McManigal confessed to Detective Burns, and implicated the McNamaras. Notwithstanding this confession, the McNamara's were brought to trial at Los Angeles in October and their innocence was maintained with vigor. They finally confessed on December 1. 1911, and are now serving a life sen
tence at San Quentin prison, Califor- Qy ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. nJa' . . , t1 rvo The world grossly overeats. Even after the arrest of the McNamara's and McManigal the dynamiting Robert Louis Stevenson said this, did not cease. And a lot of others have expressed There were eleven destructive ex- J lt jn different ways, plosions in 1911. These include the 1 Fletcher says it isn't the quantity blowing up of the Susquehanna Com-:but tne way we eat. pany Car dump at Erie, Pa., the wreck-! go n evolved the process known as ing of a viaduct at Springfield, Illinois, I pietcherizing. the dynamiting of the Springfield; That Is this to the isolated instan-
(Miss.) court house wnile unaer construction, and the blowing up of the , Westcnester ana uoston railway duct at Mount vernon, .w ium. Were 113 Explosions. Altogether the defendants were : charged with direct responsibility of j j explosions, i iit-Kt viiiiuBiuiiB entailed a loss of life numbering 112 and a property loss amounting to $3,500,000. Most of the correspondence, upon ! which the government built its case against the defendants, passed between President Frank M. Ryan of the : International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, Herbert j S. Hockin, vice-president of the asso-1 ciation and successor to J. J. McNamara as secretarv, Michael J. Young, i of Boston, John T. Butler of Buffalo, j and Frank C. Webb, of New York. j The indictments charged these men. with conducting the conspiracy ; through the mail and named all the; other defendants as abettors. As a sample of the incriminating nature of these letters here is one , President Ryan wrote to J. J. McNa-; mara from New York, in April, 1910: ! "In regard to the McClintic-Marshall jobs, let. Legleitner attend to the jobs j in his district. Let Butler attend to the jobs at Buffalo, and Rochester. Hock- i ing can arrange for the Cleveland, Detroit and Cincinnati jobs. Morrin can attend to Mount Vernon." Incriminating Letter. There is more to the letter of the same character.
In May 1910 Morrin wrote to McNa-jiast unless raring iuuu umara reporting an inspection trip he j streets or teach the young of the spemade to Mount Vernon right after cies how to near-read, write and spell, structures had been blown up there, j All school teachers should have Here is a portion of that letter: ; breakfast. 'iv frionr, fnlman took mo around' But aside from these two, breakfast
to show me where the eruptidh took 1
place. It seems as though they don't i seation. i bottle, leaves the maiden aunt to hold want a recurrence of the affair, as I ; Why should able-bodied men in the vigil and sleeps the sleep of the discounted ten watchmen and a couple of j prime of life with perfectly working , niusioned on the living-room lounge.
others prowling around. I think they were fly mugs and I was not all through the building." The counts against the defendants vary from 1 to 128, every one of which carries a penalty of from 18 months to two years. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their many kindnesses shown us during sickness and death of our beloved father, Bernard Parshall. Signed: The Children. Legend of the Sunken Bells. i Somewhere beneath the soil of Sussex, England, there lies a peal of bells, w hile in the church near by a I solitary bell calls to prayer, in tne middle ages, it is said, a certain valiant knight wished to present to the church a peal of bells that should be of use and perpetuate his memory as well, but the vessel that brought them careeneu on approacmug me uuruur, and the bells fell out and sank into the ; mud. Thereupon the donor declared: "Never shall the church have a chime until that peal 1 give it be dragged from the sea by a team of four milk white oxen." The oxen seem to have been difficult to obtain. At any rate, the fact remains that to this day the edifice to which the pious knight made his bene faction has never possessed more than a single bell. j The Wild Horse. j The "wild horse," which until recent; years was comparatively plentiful in j the southwest and west, was the off-1 spring of the horses introduced into the western continent by the Span - iards. When Pfzarro and Cortss in - vaded Peru and Mexico they took with j them tbe horses (the first ever known In the new world) from which sprang the dwves of mustangs and bronchos that used to roam in unfettered freedom over the plains of Texas, California and New Mexico and the wido pampas of South America. Some of the wild horses were of good size and very beautiful, but most of them, owing probably to lack of proper breeding. w?re of the pony variety. New York American. Feared the Consequences. Fie caught a glimpse of the visitor as he came up the steps and told his wife to answer the bell and say he wasn't at home. "But. my dear," she argued, "it's that friend o? yours who was here the other day and nsked your advice." "I know it is," returned her husband. "I'm afraid he took it" New York Times.
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The Birth of Christendom Marked by One Continuous Feasting and Gorge from "Greenland's Icy Mountain to India's Coral Strand' We Eat Too Much.
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Lariiv rhewine everv bit vou nut! into your moutn to rags ana ianerb. '-ii miict Uen it un until it becomes a sort of Hquid paste and tQea and then only can you swallow it. There is something a little bit nauseating about this, however. You can keep it up so long tnat when the swallowing process arrives you can't stomach it. Besides very few people have time to take six hours off for eating. This is all right for millionaires and dyspectics. Government employes. County oniciais. Postmasters and other representafives of the ' leisure classes." But for the average citizen Fletcherization is impossible. j There's no two ways about people bolting their tood, tnougn, na o iu , detriment of their nealtn. Mastication within proper limits is imperative. But you don't want to chew your food to death, We wouldn't eat half as much if we masticated as we should, barring Fletcher. On the other hand we eat too often. No person in ordinary health needs more than two meals a day and more or less frequently but one. Breakfast is an abomination. No sane person should eat breakI . , . , I, is a madness, a mockery and a nau- j digestive apparatuses stow away en-1 ough food the moment they complete their matutinal ablutions to plat out a table for an orphan asylum. And yet they do. Come down, cross and growling, to ! attack their morning portion of shredJded shavings or sawdust salad, cover - ed with a pint of cream and reeking iwith saccharinity, wipe up half of a porterhouse steak, a plate of fried potatoes, six or seven hot biscuits, all washed down with several cups of steaming coffee and topped oft" with a plate of pancakes floating in syrup. After which they grab their hats. bang the door and take a street-car for the office which is possibly eight ' or ten blocks away. And then wonder why they feel bad. Have a headache. j -iVitb a disposition to browbeat and ; builvrag their inferiors. j A noon they hie to some near-bv h0stelry, load up with sauerkraut, sauj s e ftnd mUk and then return tQ the office and are unbearable the rest of the day.
"I can't imagine what makes me ; the doctor's pocket distend with flnanfeel so infernally rotten," says Mr. ial fatness and fills the yawning Tired Business Man upon his return graveyard. home whence he has been deported by ! And yet you are disgustedly aware the friendly street-car. 'of the fact that after you leave Aunt "I'm afraid you don't have enough Melinda will say to eat at noon," says the fair and de- j "Well, poor thing, I was bound he voied one. "You must really stop that should have one square meal."
beastly habit of patronizing the free) lunch counter and come home at noor. j where you can get something fit to i eat. You will break down if you keep! going on like this." j With which she gently propels the ! poor martyr toward the dining-room j where he partakes of roast beef, j j mashed potatoes, canned corn, stewed' j beets, cabbage saad, mince pie,
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j sweet potatoes.gravy and other suni dries of a four course home dinner, j Later he ambles dejectedly into the ; living-room, falls into a chair and has the whole household running round i hunting his slippers, pulling off his J shoes, rubbing his noble forehead and 'administering the camphor "hot." In the middle of the night loud groans issue forth from the bed-chamber of my lord. 00,es into tne han lo terrifiediy conNo less than appendicitis they announce. My lord beseeches for an ambulance, the hospital and a nurse, while tbe household hunts up the number of tnt. cemetery let. The telephone jangles. Tue family physician chugs frantifailv to the curb-stone, Tm dying I'm dying I forgive everybody make a mustard plaster niurmurs my lord writhing upon nis colu.n the while the household groups itself tearfully. 'Thank God there comes the doctor. cries madame wringing her hand9. Tno doctor takes one look. -well I told you not to drink milk with your sauerkraut." he says pulling olJt his peliets. Madame takes a bracer. 'Is that all!" she exclaims. It'll be too much some day," returns the keeper of the phials. And madame gazing at her noble lord suddenly remembers how he looked on his wedding clay and wonders how she has endured him to this moment. For, alas, romance has long sines flown out of the window. Amorous love cannot withstand such assaults upon it's integrity. A few fits of indigestion and all is lost. lie does well enough to pay the bills and wigwag as a matrimonial asset. But as for the sentiment of their salad days the bubble has been pricked. She vawns. adjusts the hot-water when it comes to eating you know. j how it is yourself. How you eat and eat and eat on Christmas day at the urgent requests of Cousin Nathan and Aunt Melinda. How Uncle Jehosaphat insists that j you have not had enough of the white 1 mcat and although you know that j your capacity has long since been 1 reached how you take a large slice ;and nibble at the tip of a wing. How you gorge and stuff and eat yet again. How you know you never can get round to desert but how you find yourself eating all kinds of pie, fruit-cake, nuts, pudding and other debris of the Christmas menu. How you stagger to the sitting- ! room or parlor "as (he case may be," like a goose prepared for the pate de foie gras slaughter, and there munch cardy and apples .and oranges the afternoon long and at some ungodlyhour in the evening partake of a cold snack made up of what's left from dinner. This is the sort of thing that makes Cause and Effect. Mrs. Naybor You seem rather hoarse this morning, dear. Mrs. Lushman Well, ray husband came borne rather late last night. Slap an extinguisher upon your Irony If you are unhappily blessed with a ' vein of it. Lamb.
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ner in which Records Are Stored. SOME SOLD FOR JUNK Says the Secretary of State Should Preserve the State Records. l Harlow Lind.ey. head of the depart-1 ment of history at Karlham college, in ' his report on the archives of the state i . ,. . , . . ... , of Indiana, which was incorporated in the annual report of the American Historical association, criticises the manner in whic h valuable records of the early history of the state are stored in the basement of the staiehouse. i His comment on the early official re-' ports of the state is appended iu part: "It is a matter of serious regret. that 1
manv valuable documents, both print- , ed and in manuscript, have been lost.H. inaccessible, even to one glv- j In the confusion incident to the mov- ing his time and effort to the task of j
ing of the Territorial capitol from Vincennes to Corydon in 1813 and from Corydon to Indianapolis in 1S24. to -
gether with the building of the new . rooms in the basement of the statestatehouse in Indianapolis, it is known i house. Present State officials know that much material, including some 'nothing about them and no one has
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Territorial archives, was loft or sold for junk. NO SYSTEM USED. "No systematic catalogue or doscrip - , . . , .
. v..tt I has been made, nor is such a thing 'possible under present circumstances, are kept in the various State offlees, or sre stored in the :-ta!ehcuise ; basement. Some of them are so badly' damaged as to be almost illegible. "The law makes the secretary of the state custodian of the public records' of the State of Indiana, and he is required to keep and preserve the enrolled constitution of the State, the j description ot the State seal, the man-1 useripts containing the enrolled acts j and joint resolutions of the general as-1 sembly and all the books, records, ; parchments, maps, registers, and pa pers deposited in his otf.ee j "Various sections of the general ; statutes provide Kr uc mcsfiunou of certain rwords and for their care. but there is no general law. No com - statutes provide for the preservation I mission or department is caring for o" hnving chars s provided for . rge of the gen- j eral subject, and the condition of all ;tne older public records is far from satisfactory and beyond any possiouity of permanent improvement until pro - vision is made by law for their caie and organization. ARE DUST COVERED. "A large part of the earlier public making a report concerning them. Many of them are stored away like! ' junk in dark, damp and dust-covered
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