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Show j WOMi ON STAND IN THE SCHMIDT TRIAL LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. The prosecution prose-cution in the trial of Matthew A. j Schmidt began laying today a foundation founda-tion for tho introduction of documentary documen-tary evidence concerning the MiXa-r MiXa-r ; xnara dynamiting conspiracy in which n - 1 . Schmidt, charged with the murder of one of tho twenty victims of the Times explosion, is alleged to have had a part. Mrs. H. A. Hull, formerly Miss Edith Weinbrcnner of Indianapolis, was placed on the stand after counsel for Schmidt had succeeded in preventing The introduction of testimony concerning concern-ing Ortio MeMnnigal'a presence here in December, 1910, to dynamite the Llewellyn iron works. Mrs. Hull in 1910 was a stenographer and bookkeeper in the office of John J. McNamnra, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge, and Structural Iron Workers. She identified financial statements and articles published in the "Bridge-men's "Bridge-men's Magazine," a publication issued under the direction of McNamara. Mrs. Hull waa still on the stand when court adjourned at noon until Monday. Sho was occupied principally with identifying iden-tifying financial records of the International Interna-tional Association of Bridge and Structural Struc-tural Iron Workers by which, according ' to the opening statement of J. W. Nool, ! special prosecutor, the state expects to j prove that the iron workors'4 union i spent $3(i,O00 for explosives. Mrs. Hull also identified about fifty! letters from the files of the iron work- i ersJ association. These letters, the prosecution pros-ecution asserted, were innocent on their face, but were cloaked in language which when interpreted would reveal a conspiracy. The letters were submitted for identification identi-fication only and will not be read to the jury until lator. |