Show I II NO VOICE VO IS RAISED fOR J. J MUNSEY I Def Defense nse at Conspiracy Tr Trial al Closes Without Plea for Salt Laker Accused of Harboring the Los tos Angeles Dynamiter PROSECUTORS PROSECUTOR'S CHALLENGE ELICITS N NO 0 RESPONSE United States Senator Kern in inClosing inClosing inClosing Closing Argument for Union Officials i als Scores as Greatest Criminal of Ages AgeT Age s I T POLIS POLIS Ina Dec 24 1 Stan Standing ing- ing before tho the jury at the trial of th the forty I I alleged bomb plot- plot plotter tey ter United Un St States Stites tes District Attorney Miller l today ay challenged any of the defense defense de de- de- de lawyers lawyer to speak in behalf of J. J E E. of Salt Snit Lake or for Herbert Herbert Her- Her bert beit S. S Ilo kin former secretary of the iron workers workers' union lu 0 was accused of harboring James 1 B. B McNamara t Iu ill iu the latter latter's s flight from Los Angeles after blowing up the Times building and was brandby branded brand brand- ed by the district attorney as one ione of the thc men who ought now to be in San Quentin n pr prison on for murder along with the Hockin was declared de de- Glared to be he tI the the lago Iago of the conspiracy acy who lio started the d dynamiting ug and then titer snitched on the others to promote hi his hid own O ambition N No one accepted Mr Millers Miller's offer The dramatic scene ensued soon after Unit United d States Senator John W. W Kern had bad ended ende his argument for the de defense de- de c- c If It It required for tor Clarence Darrow to trial of t the the Mc- Mc Los at-Los s Angeles to k a success success- successful success success- uc rut rul plea o of C guilty 11 t what must It have I cost to lo retain counsel here with cx- cx Judges and a United States senator as law lawyers w era shouted Mr Miller How lIow can men for tor I money raise voices Ices tor for such consummate criminals Ye 1 eS 1 In all aU this thip Ions long trial I have ha heard no voice raised In behalf of ot two of at the defendants lants Who of or the tho lawyers ers will 1 will stand ip p to o say ny Hockin Is not guilty Who will say that is not guilty guilt I will give gl twenty minutes of the tho governments government's time to any la lawyer cr who will vIII argue that these theEo men arc are not guilty gunt Haps s Senator Kern Bern Hero the district attorney turned from the tho Jury jur looked with an outstretched outstretched out out- stretched hand rand toward tho the attorneys and paused Senator Kern was not present For a n minute Mr Ir Miller faced the tho courtroom in silence No Xo answer said Mr 11 Miller There Is Js not a lawyer la present who will defend de do- fend tend Munsey or Hockin Not a voice Continued on Pago O 2 Column 4 9 I NO VOICE RAISED FOR J. J E. E MUNSEY Defense Closes Wi Without Plea for Salt Laker Accused of Harboring Dynamiter Continued from P Page rc One has been raised In behalf and tho on only 1 of ot Munsey was that tho t given civen b by Thomas rhomas Keams a a. a. a former United States State senator who iho said suld Mun- Mun soy's c reputation was good Senator Kern Korn paid b by tho the public to perform a n public service sOr who ou ought ht to be bo in Washington now attending to his duties Instead of being hero hore has dared to appear 1 In this court and in Y total n n 1 disregard f f h for tho the law u has haR apY ap- ap I u I a ann 1111 paSSIons of ot this jury In behalf of or the wives arid and children of or these defendants Who ho ap al- apPealed ap- ap pealed In behalf of the women and children who were Ivere relatives of the twenty one Persons persona killed In the Los Angeles explosion Nobody Denounces California L Lender Four hours wore were taken talton up UI b by tho the defense with Hiram H It H Kline about hos innocence the they assort there thoro is no doubt but only three minutes uro I given Olaf Olat A. A of at San Frau Fran cisco nough evidence o has been produced pro pro- tI to show that T Eugene A A. Clancy and Munsey all ull ought h t to bo ho with McNamara In San prison on for murder If Jr I wore were tho the prosecuting officer of or Los Angeles count county Tveit- Tveit moo noo and Clancy would be he prosecuted for murder and If It tho jur Jury was composed of honest men mon tho they would soon be with McNamara along with some somo others And among tho the others would be bc Frank Fronk M. M Ryan Ran president of ot tho International International Inter Inter- national Iron Workers Workers' union unions and Frank Webb of ot Now York No 0 o witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses flosses hero here for tor Webb and he lie did not take tho the stand I I- would I have given him something to explain If he ho had hind Mr Miller commented on the failure of or Phillip A. A Cooley of ot Now Kew Orleans to to testify in his own behalf Cooley a 3 member of at the unions union's executive board boar Is charged with planning to cause causo explosions ox- ox in southern states about the time of or McNamara's arrest Cooley did not take the stand be because because be- be cause causo ho saw what a poor showing John T. T Butler Dutler vice president of at tho the union made said Mr lr Miller 11 11 er Butler RutiN on leaving lea the stand was accused accused accused ac ac- ac- ac of or perjury perjur and his his bond bond was as Increased in increased in- in creased In default of which hois ho hois hois is in Jail X Xe Mr er Light ou on Cane New light on the trial showing as the tho government charged that It grew out of ot attempts to obstruct the tho removal of eI evidence from froni Indianapolis to Los Angeles Ang was given oy by y Mr 1 Miller ITo IIo said uail the re reason tho the ff federal pral in investigation in- in investigation began hegan here hero was because Leo M. M attorney for tor the tile International In- In I AssocIation nT or T o u Structural Iron Workers of which J J. J J. J McNamara was secretary destroyed evidence on Instructions from McNamara McNamara mara while the latter was In Jail and antI because o Frank P. P Bal Baker cr prosecuting attorney of oC Marion count county Ind 1111 joined in tho the obstruction against the tho removal of at evidence to J J. J D. D Fredericks district attorney of oC Los Angeles CO coun n- n t ty he federal government was ap appealed ap- ap pealed to and it stopped in to procure tho the letters lotters and papers In tho ho Ironworkers Ironworkers' iron ironworkers ironworkers' workers workers' headquarters with Ith tho the revelation tion that the federal laws had been violated said sald Mr 11 Miller Again s I IBl Isay Isay Bl say If It I were prosecuting attorney of Los Angeles Ang count county I would have havo this man Indicted as an AU accessory accessory sor sory after the fact for mur murder cr to tho thc denial before the tho jury of ot a Cleveland lawyer that no reign of or terror over ever existed In Clove Cleve Cleoland land Mr Miller l said It has been shown rn not only that there thero was a 0 reign of terror in Cleveland eJan 1 but that tho the prosecuting Ung- Ung attorney there thore W was S tho the same samo kind of n u spineless In individual l as tho prosecutor of Marion Marlon county that the police pollee courts failed to do their duty and that a II dive divo existed under tho the er very eaves of tho the city hall hail Senator Argument r ment Senator John W. W V. V Kern who closed the ar argument In behalf of the tort forty forty forty-dc- defendants de de appealed to tho jurors to re remember re- re mem member er when preparing their verdicts that most of tho the d defendants cn came from distant parts of ot the thc countr country Plain working working- workingmen men he lie said some of them uneducated iron worl workers ors taken from their homes hundreds or thousands t or bf f miles away awny and made matIc to face tace a a. strange court with a n. district attorney at at- at torne torney hurling harsh and abusive language lan Ian guage o at them them them-Is is It nn any won wonder that some of ot thorn them could not remember de details details de- de tails of or letters tho they wrote five rIvo years ago Some of ot those men did not know what the they were charged with They came to me 1110 and asked me mc what it was nil all about I had to explain to them that they thoy were not charged with d dynamiting dyna dyna- na uniting but hut only onh with transporting ex explosives ex- ex plosives Illegally You Tou Jurors cant can't convict them of causing explosions on passenger trains or 01 conspiracy to violate vio yb- late tho the fo federal eral laws taw Attacks Attacking L 13 JJ l Ic tho the confessed dynamiter as the greatest criminal of or his time tune Senator Kern Korn said the governments government's charges es wore based largely upon what had Bal said This camo came hero here with a brazen face taco and related his crimes with an nfl air all of at triumph said the tho senator Would you ou permit a contest over a n. c cow w to bo be decided by tho the word of at such sucha a u man unarm It HIt has boon been said sahl that tho the National Erectors' Erectors association and the United States Stool Steel corporation has had nothIng noth noth- ing to do with this case caso But It has been heen shown that tho the agents of the National National Na Na- a- a Erectors' Erectors association took from flom I tho the iron workers workers' union headquarters letters From those these tho government govern govern- ment took toole letters Jetters In which it was sought ought to 8 allow OW a conspiracy existed 1 Did Dl the government read all nU those cOO letters rB No only parts ports of or those letters wore read the parts which the prosecution thought showed a n u. u acy C Why h since the time for a fl change chango In the administration of ot this thin country ap preaches I have havo received scores of oC letters let let- letters on a a. variety of or subjects i jf if you OU read those letters literally you might convict cOIn the writers with almost an any charge you ou wished to mako make against them Referring to what he called tho the In Interests interests In- In which wanted canted to see these men mon prosecuted Senator Kern said When the tho greatest criminal of at the century is prosecuted prosecuted and and and ho he will vill bo be boit beit boIt It it would be an nn act of or retribution it these laboring men now on ou trial wore called caHall upon to pass upon the letters that would bo be produced Third Degree rec Methods Senator Kern described describe as ns tho the third degree certain federal investigations In iii Los Angeles Ans Oscar Lawler special assistant to tho tim attorney general an and 1 Arthur J i. i deputy district attorney ncr Boy of or Los Jos Angeles county had fled Clod that Clancy Clanry wn was examined in Los Angeles that because of ot heart trou trou- ble hlo lie he was sas b by a nurse and that seeing Ic through a Do door ho f fainted 1 n te Tho The third degree e has hns become so obnoxious obnoxious ob ob- ob noxious that recently a congressional investigation was ordered said saM Senator Sena Sena- tor Korn Kern We had supposed It was pr practiced on only onty by the tho police No one ever evor thou thought ht of it being used b by higher authorities Yet that l was what was w lone done in CI Clancy's case Almost collapsing lug ins and In such Buh a 3 condition that stimulants lants hants hal haJ to bo be given him he was put through h a third degree and those who en engaged in it deserve the huo ho profoundest can contempt of or law and decency Against Senator l Kern ern said the only ovId evidence once the government o produced pro pro- was wag that concerning th the tho flight from C California of or Mrs i Flora Caplan wife of one of James B. B McNamara's accomplices accomplices- |