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Show I ADMITS PART I INDMITIi I RECORDS fULL B J. B. Bishop Testifies That H Conners and Three Others Hj Placed Powder Near H the Building. H SAYS PLOT HATCHED H IN LABOR TEMPLE M McManigal at Indianapolis Dell De-ll tails How Clocks Were H Used to Discharge Wm OS ANGBIjKS. Cal., Jan. ?.--.T. B. I Bishop, one of the state's star wlt-1 wlt-1 nesses in tlio trial of Pert H. Con-Mi Con-Mi 1 J ners. charged with having con-H con-H spired tn dynamlto the county hall 9 ' or records September 0. 1910. admitted Wm upon cross-examination today' that he Htt . was in the employ of the county doicc-. HI tivc bureau and that lie had lied to Con-nets Con-nets in hi? alleged conversations with the defendant. Bishop testified that lie was a member of the Structural Iron Workers' union, II and as such had become acfiuaintcd with 1 the defendant and A. B. Maple and 1. MM Ira Bender, union men, jointly accused U with Conner.". Bishop sall that on the III night of September S. 1910, the day belli be-lli fore the alleged attempt at dynamiting. I be. Connors, Maple and Bender had gone Ml together to the basement of the union II labor teinpl-i In Ibis city, whore Connors, jffl he declared, had tnlcen two sticks of H dnamlte from the top of a boiler. Then. I according to Bishop. Conners said: II "We arc going down to blow up the H county hall of records. There's ?10,000 fmt back of un fellows If wc set caught." Wm Bishop naid also that he had visited jH Conner? in the county jail September 5, MB mi J. while he was awaiting rial, and MM , (he defendant had said: H 'tick around I want you as a wit-II wit-II . ncss In my ease. I want you to swear I mm was drunk the night of September S, II On cro?s-camlnalion, Bishop admitted In that he had lied to Conners by saying he was willing to commit crimes, when lh II' reality, he declared, he would do no such II thing. He also slated that he knew J. II Manscll. Parks, also an employee of the 3jn tounty detective, bureau, whose testimony If before the grand jury resulted in the arrest of Conners. |