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Show t of men trust webwibest " lam Wood, Head of $75,-IjJftOOO $75,-IjJftOOO Corporation, Is barged With Conspiracy jH Distribute Dynamite. GROWTH OF THE LAWRENCE STRIKE fclist Declares He Is Inno-Bof Inno-Bof the Charge; Will Be , prmally Arraigned Next Tuesday. Lrnstlonal News Service. feTON, A 1 1 tr. 30. There was an fsrtounJing outcome today of the preat strike of mill opcra-Itivos opcra-Itivos at Lawrence, Maps., wliioh from January 12 until March 14 lUrraed the country and brought srkers and militia in sanguinary 01. lira M Wood, president of the lean Woolen company, snr rendered U here on learning he had been id for conspiracy. tWooA is accused of plotting to 'Bijnamit 60 as to discredit the . onions. rj M i charged tbat he and others pi to conceal the deadly explosive mnto betraj it? hiding places to mle to as to ereatet.he impression the strikers proposed to destroy of the mills from which they had Mont b dynamite was discovered in a lodging house, a cobbler's shop a wnctery at Tjawrence last Jan-J, Jan-J, Nseeearjly the impression that 'diKOTerv" made did not improve (Uanvr of the militiamen and po-hfeywere po-hfeywere ready to shoot r&i of $75,000,000. pAttrican Woolen company is one ppfctost manufacturing concerns fttetrv. It. is Qanita.Ji-.ied at $75,-Pi $75,-Pi fas thirty-throe mills in New fci and New Yorlc and employs owrittires when all its mnchin-III mnchin-III ttoring. Fifteen thousand of fW at Lawrence, where the coin-borethe coin-borethe brunt of the strike. Wood and his lawyer, former ffflnan Samuel L. Powers, drove Mr ear tfl police headquarters this fug. then to the courthouse. Wood H entirely calm. His bail was attfOOO and he handed over five I bilk, aid immediately afterward; I fonrse J w;is greatly surprised action of ihe grand jury. I can-(Wceive can-(Wceive what information could FWn presented to the jurors which frwav connected me with the, so lyoamito plot. Mainly had no connection with this will bo fullv established at F0Pr tune to the satisfaction of mk and even the district ai- of Inquiry. rrcst of Wood is the third re-BHle re-BHle grand lurv'a investigation 1 'dynamite plot," which was rtei by District Attorney Tel tod began on Tuesday. J- Breen, a Lawrenen underbid under-bid member of tbe school board, n convicted of selling dynamite PJ to certain persons and finod Keally Breen was suspected of helped to plant the dynamite. t followed the discovery that the explosive was wrapped IT1 paper on which were name and address and which T11 torn from an undertaker's Journal. ct and other knowledge eeems rouaed District Attorney Pel-PjDipieioni Pel-PjDipieioni and he began his in-Paoa- On Tuesday the. high of lfll,c Lawrence mills, who have m i this eitVj wero called before nd .iury. Some could not be P of Contractor. Mtne day Ernest A. Pitman, a rfr of Andover, who built the loomed mills of the American I eompauy at Lawrence, coni-I coni-I Wicida at Andover. He had been th ?rand jury. Lxater. John W, p,tman, Is R -vilIJ todav that Ernest had ito-mUcb about tho "discovery" E? 8l' Lawrence and he had fair hen Breen was found m, s ended, ir ollitis. a Cambridge dog fKvrtl a. frind of Breen, waa ar-iBrtoRn ar-iBrtoRn v l'harRed with unlaw-uur unlaw-uur porting dynamite on January 'pi!1itt. strike leaders at Law 0tttf.mie4 on Page Four,) 1 I I HEAD OF WOOLEN TRUST IS ARRESTED: (Continued from Page One.) raaea -oero to have suspected a plot As ' e;,rly ms January 12 they telegraphed to Governor Evas protesting against uncle-- m certain newspapers to the effect that tbei bad been taking dvna ! 'nite to Lawrence and threateninc; to blow up the mille. i That war eight day before the first! Liseovery of dynamite, which was' I round just after noon on Raturdav, January BO, by police and detectives! in a tenement bouse or, Oak street in I tb Syrian quarter of Lawrence. The man who put the police on the trail of ,he dnrnite wa. a vuboemintly came out. the mc man who was bo Btrooflv "'.ivr-erted of " planting'' the! dj naniite narnelv the undertaker I i rJreen. William M. Tood married a daugh- Dr. Frederics Aver 0f Lowell, ' j who has mad much mouer out of a' ; proprietary medicine. Wood, who was i bora at Martha ' Vineyard ami wh once a mill ban.) and elerk. prides him elf on veng a ' sol f -made " mar He mastered the dctaib of banking acd I participated in the reorgan i?at ion of ; Bet eral Pall TJiver mills. He with Oth in I orssssirad toe Americso Woolen com ; i'an . |
