Show JOHN MUNSEY ACCUSED AS DYNAMITER Prisoner Wilson TaKes the Stand to Give His Side of Case Breaking a silence h lie Ito has s maintained maintained main main- tamed during five weeks weeks In Jail Fred Wilson alleged dynamiter took the stand this morning In In the police courland court and told a story which if It true would implicate ate John S. S Munsey Munsel business agent of the local structural Iron workers workers work work- ers ers ersin in the plot to blow up the machinery In the foundation ot of the Utah hotel building building build build- ing on the night of December 28 Wilson Vilson absolutely contradicted the statement of ot D. D R R. Jones of tho the Jones Construction company as to the date on which the check cheek for tor was deposited in a local bank hank After nearly an hour of rigid examination cross by Assistant County Attorney Alexander and stud Special Counsel W. W W. W Little both lawyers ad admitted ml- ml twitted ft that i they liar hadnot not succeeded in I breaking down clown tIn the testimony of Wilson to any great extent Wilson had a long talk with Assistant County Attorney Alexander in tho tim county county coun coun- ty jail jaU y yesterday afternoon and It Is said that Alexander advised kilos him to take the tho stand and t tIll tell ll his lila stor story Durin During the hour and arid a hall half that ho Iso was on the stand this morning Wilson Vilson was as cool and answered every every- question that was fired at him by D his alleged pal and th the two attorneys The courtroom was as crowded with structural iron workers who had ed that the tho ou case would d bo 10 disposed d of this morning At the tho end of the hearIng hear hear- ing lug Judge Bowman Bo announced ed that he hue would take the t-as t case rase under consideration until next t Monday morning Says Delaney Told Him Wilson Vilson testified that he was working at the Oregon Short Line shops in this city last December that Delaney with whom he had been rooming in the Wabash Wabash Wa- Wa bash house had come como to him and told him that he Ito had a little job that would bring them 50 30 0 each Delaney did thid not tell what the job was I but asked the witness to meet him that i night Wilson Ison testified d that ho he met Delancy Dohaney De Do- laney lancy and that they went ent to the tho Eastman Eastman East East- man titan hall ball hal on South State street where they met a man named Munsey who ho told them that there was 50 each in It ft for them if they would go out and blow up the machinery at the Utah hotel building Munsey said We Ye only want to scare the present workmen off of the job said the tl witness Wilson Vison said that he ho told Munsey lunsey that he wanted time to think the matter maW r over Ho Ue met Munsey he ho testified at the postoffice postoffice post- post office building on ott 01 the following day in company with Delaney and Munsey told him that there was another man that h he wished to see before he lie went through with willi wil the deal dEAI Wilson ilson Dlan Delaney y and Munsey then came fame up to Main Stain and Second South said ain Wilson Wison and Munsey asked him to wait walt until he went wont down to the Blue Point cigar store to see if I the man he wanted was there Delane Delaney said Wilson Wison went down the street with while I waited on the tle corner returned a a. short time later and told me mo that the man Munsey wanted anted to see sea was there but butt that tha t he lie was so drunk that Munsey could act do business with wills wih him Then Talks Tas to Jones After I T left luns and Delaney I went to the Utah hotel botel building and ami asked to see ee Mr 1 Jones Jone I I met him and told him bust I of f a plot l t to blow up the works 1 Jones said I t that tsat I w not t the e first sro man manto manto to bring him that information 1 and that he Jones had bad heard limiTS that Munsey lunsey was caa one of the tho men in the tho te plot Jones Jane offered to to- put me on the pay payroll payroll I roll rol at a da day to set alt as al a detective I and to furnish him with wih what information tion ton I could secure Jon Jones s said he ex- ex pelted to have o to Mil kill 11 one or two men before be- be fore arp he left this cm Witness testified that that thi-t thi conversation with wih Jones was had December 27 December De De- cember 28 ho lie said fald he lie went with Delaney Delane to the plant of Silver Brothers and later latel left lef him at the thuG n restaurant In the In-the he evening i Wilson went to his hs room In 11 the Wabash abash house hOlf e a short shor time later he asserted and never ne I saw Delaney Delane until the next Tight He lie le swore that Delaney Delaney was not in i the room all the e night of December 2 CS tho the p glo night 7 of t the tho e explosion Someone Is Perjurer D Delaney lal several en ral days das ago said he had set an n alarm cod clothe clock to at o'clock on the morning moring of December 29 and that Wilson lson had bad left the room and about 6 o'clock that morning with wills the information that he ho had done the job Wilson Wison testified that ho had met Jones the day after the Ihl explosion in the Buffet Butet saloon that he had told Jones that De- De Dl- Dl lan aney haney had not been in his room and that he le believed that ho hue had something to do with the Job that Jones bou bought ht several drinks and then offered witness If he le would furnish information that would woud lead cad to the thc arrest of the guilty guity parties The witness was po positive itye that this conversation con on occurred on the after the explosion and stated d that ho Iso first frt heard that there had been an explosion wh when n h he lie was in the saloon s and but a short time before Jones came into the saloon 1 lie llo insisted that hr 1 a I n Jones to the Merchants' Merchants bank in this ef city and an that Jones had hind drawn a check for Cor which he Indorsed and that later a cashiers cashier's check was made for foi the amount and deposited with the th understanding i that It wa was ww not to be paid to Wilson Vison Until until un un- til ti Jones Joes said sid so In In this part of his story stOr Wilson Vison was a in accord with the testimony of bank officials of- of and in direct opposition to that of Jones who said that the check transaction ti-ansac- ti tion ton took place in the bank December IS 28 Delaney Delaey Is Sore Wilson said he next lEXt met Delaney at atthe atthe the room in tn tho Wabash house about 6 30 O'clock on the evening of December 29 20 that hat he hue had asked asked Dlane Delaney where he had been all al night and that Delaney Delancy had said A word worl to the wise Is sufficient that Delaney had said that he hI had lund had ha a fel tel lov loW ow with hUn last night that had ha a yel ello el io lo ow streak about a yard wide and that ho he had had bd to put a g gun against his hi I ribs to make him go through with the job Delaney t took oJ a I hand f 01 i a minute in inthe inthe inthe the hearing this morning with wil the Hie an announcement an- an that he he would like Uke to ask the county attorney for a complaint charging chargin Wilson Wison with perjury I want to swear t to ta that complaint said Delaney Delane In answer to the court Wilson lson denied absolutely that he had hal gone to the bank with Jones on December 28 8 and insisted that the date of the visit to the hank bank and the making of f the e check for was on g December e a. a 29 fI I lie He denied r t that ho had ever v t exploded any dynamite c that he was as near the Utah hotel building on the night of the thc explosion or 01 that he knew anything about the explosion until the following afternoon John S. S lunse Munsey business agent for the local ocal branch of the he structural Iron worker work work- ers era er said this afternoon afternoon- If U Wilson Wison testified that I had an any deal ceal with wih him hint or Delaney Delanoy 10 to blow up any part of the works of the Utah Utah hotel building he 10 is a liar lar The union men of oT this city are not engaged in that kind of business As far fai as I know I T have never met Wilson Wison in my life until I met him In the theoffice theoffice office of the chief of police pollee- polee after he ho had been arrested I m met t Delaney some time ago lie He came cameo cameto to o me mo and wanted a a which h he lie stated stated stated stat stat- ed he wanted to use uso so that he could go to another I place I deny deni- absolutely that I or the local union iron workers had anything to do with wih the explosion at tl the tho tt Utah h ho hotel 1 building on the night of 28 Whatever hate difference we wp may o hu with lu Jones and the tho tl Utah hotel p. p we WC will wi fight nh i-nh out Olt on legitimate rounds grounds and wo we will wi not i t oit i-oit to loii lo- lo ii f f |