Show V BOY AT PLAY PLAT USED IN PLEA TO JURY TO SPARE FATHER FATHERs s Senator Kern Keen Will Conclude Arguments for Defense in Bomb Trial Today IA Al Dec Four year Four INDI 1 I o of oth d' d 5 George orge Bernhardt pla playing nS' nS In Inthe Inthe inthe the lobby of ot the tho federal building with witha a a. toy oy engine was mado made a 0 subject of ot comment In Sn tho the argument for tor tho the de defense do- do tense before tho Jury jur at nt tho the dynamite conspiracy trial today Tho The boy Is II the son of William WIlHam C. C Bernhardt of Cincinnati one of the forty CortY defendants accused of ot aiding the to blow up nonunion Jobs The wives I of about thirty defendants with almost as many children have been sitting through h tho tho trial for al almost almost al- al most three months and while his lila parents par par- parI I ants were cre listening to tho the denial orthe of or the charges of ot dynamiting the bo boy was romping through the tho lobby with a supply of ot Christmas presents trial must If It after atter this long you OU convict somebody said Attorney Willlam Will Will- m lam N. N Harding dont ont convict William Willlam Will Will- Sll lam iam Bernhardt for tor ho he is an Industrious ous us Iron worker and has hns a n. wife to support He has worked hard all his life and has raised a family Blowing up nonunion Jobs at night or re resorting to violence In a strike is not characteristic characterIstic character character- of ot a 3 man who raises a a. a family But Dut I sa say If It you ou must convict somebody somebody somebody some some- body b by the tho name of C Bernhardt c t c con con- vict viet his little bo boy Send the tho little boyto boy DOY boyto to tho the penitentiary Ho might stand it but Bernhardt with a 3 wife ICe could not Speaking for tor all the tho defendants Mr Harding referred to letters taken from the ironworkers ironworkers' international headquarters headquarters head head- Quart quarters rs in Indianapolis upon which the government o charges a 3 dynamite I through the con conspiracy was directed mall mail Mr Harding also i Said ahl tho the government government government govern govern- ment for tor three months had a telephone Instrument under President Frank M. M Ryans Ryan's desk hidden at the union of offices or- or flees and had not produced produce in evl- evl dance nn any information secured through the secret telephones Organized labor never nc dl did and neer never never nev nev- er will approve of ot such a wide nation reign of ot violence and terrorism as has been charged cd here asserted Clifford S. S In ar arguing to the tho jur Jury Ho spoke particularly in behalf of or W. W Bert Brown and William 1 J J. McCain of or Kansas ansas City Mo charged with havIng having hav hay ing lag guilty knowle knowledge s-o s of or an nn explosion on n a bridge in construction across the tho Missouri river OrUo IS E. tlc said ho blew up tho work worl in August 1910 1510 after James B. B McNamara amara had visited Kansas City It has hns been shown by hy the government government govern govern- ment saul said Mr Ir Langsdale that James Tames B. B Ic was In Salt Lake blowIng blowIng blowing blow- blow Ing up u lL hotel there at the time it was charged ho Ito was vas in Iau a City talkIng talkIng talking talk- talk Ing to Drown n and McCain He lie was too bus busy causing explosions elsewhere to have been In Kansas City |