Show WITNESS SLUGGED AFTER TESTIFYING IN DYNAMITE CASE E District Attorney Sets on F Foot o t Investigation f of Assault at a Kansas City City- I 1 I I Oct 16 i. United A States District Attorney Charles W TV Miller tonight telegraphed General ing th the Attorney department department depart depart- depart ment ot or Justice to make e a rigid Investigation In In- In of ot tho the slugging at Kan Kansas Kana a CIt City of ot H. H E. E Pearce who testified on Monday a as a witness for lor the gOVernment govern gOVern- ment in th the dynamite trial conspiracy At t the beginning of ot the trial here wo we 0 could take no chances on tolerating any rough tactics said eald Mr Miller Pearce came here under i from the government and neither ho lie nor an any other witness Is lz to be he molest ed on account of ot any testimony he might have ha given The distrIct S attorneys attorney's s telegram asked ed for tor a vigorous federal Investigation gation for tor the purpose of at determining the perpetrators of ot the outrage Pearce who was a. a clerk In a Kan Kan- sas City hotel In his testimony fled fied Ortie Ortle E. E Mc as having having- regIstered reg reg- at the hotel August 20 1910 as J uJ J W. W McGraw St. St Louis Ic 1 lan lan- igal he said had hal remained at the hotel three days dars leaving on the tho day da- dathe the d dy put several charges of ot nitroglycerine nitroglycerine nitroglycerine nitro nitro- glycerine under portions of at a bridge being constructed across the Missouri river A A. can of at the explosive which Mc hid In a swamp near the river but which he later was as unable to locate was recovered by the local authorities and md turned over ocr to the goy gov While Pearce was on the stand only onh- a 0 short time and merel merely Identified Mc Mc- Ic- Ic Manigal his testimony was said by government attorneys s 's to be important In with other details of at the dynamite conspiracy The government announced that it would be shown that tha a conference was held in Kansas City concerning proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed Pacific coast explosions AccordIng According According Ac Ac- cording to the government James B B. McNamara TV W. Bert Brown an Ironworkers Ironworkers' Ironworkers Ironworkers' ironworkers ironworkers' Iron Iron- workers' workers official in Kansas CIt City on trial here and a a. citizen whose name nam was not given ghen talked about proposed Jobs to be blown up The district at attorney attorney at- at torney torne assorted asserted that McNamara Ic amara and Brown urged the citizen to go Into the dynamiting business saying theres lots of ot monc money in it for tor you ou and youve you've got the protection of at the union Were We're going to blow up the whole town of at Los Angeles The Thc un unnamed unnamed unnamed un- un named person refused to 10 enter enter tho the conspiracy con con- Chicago Ocl Oct 16 Declaring Declaring that he assisted In dynamiting the Lo Loa Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles Times and was guilty jot of other bomb outrages es John Cook appeared before officials in ip the department of at Justice toda today an and l b begged g c t to be he taken to Indianapolis immediately to face tace trial Cook who would not give his address was held heM pending ad advices ces from Indianapolis Indianapolis' and further further- cs of at his s story tor |