Show BROADENS SCOPE BROADENS SCOPE OF EVIDENCE IN DYNAMITE TRIAL Court Couri Overrules Objections to toT T Testimony Regarding Regard Explosions Explosion I SAYS IT SHOWS EMOTIVE Conspiracy Already PI Proven ven by and Clarks Clark's Pleas of Guilt INDIANAPOLIS Oct 22 A A battered INDIANAPOLIS 1 I ivory-handled ivory umbrella that had survived an explosion was produced as asa asa asa a government exhibit at the d dynamite trial toda today Thomas Berger Ber- Ber ger of or Pittsburgh foreman of ot a a. abridge abridge bridge construction company Identified tied fled It as having been found after an explosion on a a. railroad bridge at Daton Day Day- ton 0 O. Ma May 3 3 1008 1908 I notice you ou are arc examining tho the han han- dle dIe What attracts your our attention to It 7 asked United States District Attorney Attorney At At- torney torne Miller I see on tho thio handle engraved the tho Initials E E. C. C replied the witness It was t the tho umbrella which the gov- gov eminent charges Edward Clark carried when ho attempted to to blow up the bridge and which ho lie held over tho the dynamite dynamite dynamite dy dy- dy- dy to protect It from a heavy rain Tho The government o says Clark after alter lighting lighting light light- ing InS the fuse tuse forgot the umbrella Clark at the opening of ot tho the present trial pleaded guilty The indictment alleges that Herbert S. S Hockin acting acting- secretary of the tho International Association Association Association tion of ot Bridge and Structural Iron IronWorkers IronWorkers Workers assisted Clark darWin in pr preparing paring for tor forthe forthe the Dayton Daton explosion A dozen foremen of ot con construction firms testified about e explosions explosions- H. H G. G Reynolds Ro of ot ond d. d JYa an attempt t to blow up UI a brId bridge e the tle Susquehanna river near Perry Perryville ville Md on Juno June 1 I 1908 when hen four tour men ran a away way leaving dynamite behind E E. E G G. G n of Chicago described the blowing up of ot a construction car caron caron caron on an elevated railroad construction at Buena Park Chicago In March 1908 and the dynamiting of a a. car of or steel at Indiana Harbor Ind lad a year ear later H. H W. W Ashle Ashley of ot Pittsburgh h told of ot the o of a a. viaduct Induct near Clairton Clarton Clair Glair- ton Pa October 12 1906 1006 after aCter which pieces of ot a suit case in which tho the bomb had b ben been en enclosed were found scattered over o the country countr Judge Albert B. B Anderson before whom the forty five men charged with the thc Illegal al transportation of 01 explosives arc being tried made mado several rulings In answer to lo objections raised b by the defense Ho lie ruled that tho the evidence concerning all of the explosions re referred re- re to by hy the government Including the Los Angeles Times disaster might bo be Introduced as showing showing- a motive Ho He said a conspiracy already alread had been proven pro b by tho the pleas of or guilt on tho the part of ot Clark and Ortle Ortie cl but the Jury jun was to determine whether the remaining defendants were implicated The court stated further that the tho government had undertaken en to that the object of ot the tho conspiracy was much broader than tho the mere Illegal megal transportation of ot dynamite and nitroglycerin nitro nitro- glycerin that the explosives were beIng belag boIng be- be Ing lag transported to destroy destro property and to enforce a reign of 01 terror againSt contractors who maintained tho the open shop As sho showing the scope of what evidence evidence evidence evi evi- dence might be bo offered the court cited cHell decisions which grow grew row out of ot a n. railroad employees' employees dispute lc The Tho original purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of or the employees the court said was not riot to obstruct the United States malls mails but an as a an Incident of the execution execution execution tion of tho the conspiracy to tic tie up other tracks the mall mail trains were obstructed and the United States supreme court held that all the acts act constituted a conspiracy to obstruct the malls mall |