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Show FIVE MEN ARE ON TRIAL FORMURDER PLOT TO DERAIL TRAIN AT GARY, INDIANA, 18 ADMITTED BY MEN NOW ON TRIAL Speaker Told Men to Jimmy Track and Make Equipment Appear In Poor Condition. Men Held Former Ohop Workers Chicago. FIva men chargod with murder Tuesday accused of wracking the "million dollar sprss" on tho Michigan Central near Gary, Ind., Augut 20, when two of tho train crow wero killed. Flvo othors were hold In connection connec-tion with tho wreck Investigation and at loast( two more who aro known ware sought, acordlng to tho police. Confessions ohtnlnod from' somo of the prisonors not only solvod tho wrack of tho express, but bared a plot to aend the Twontloth Contury limited, crack Now York-Chicago train Into tho ditch near Elkhart, Ind., tho police said. Tha flvo who faco murder charges are: Josoph Papourvltch, Charlos Usells, John Petrowskl, Albino AIosbIo and James Prohotah. All wore Bald to bo striking shopmen. Usolls, Petrowskl and Papourvltch wore said to havo contossod tho wreck plot. Tho men wore omployod la Now York Central shops. Thoy named Alesalo In tholr confosslona, and ho ndmlttod knowlodgo of tho plot according to police, but maintained main-tained that Usolls, Petrowskl and Papourvltch were responsible for tho wreck. Taken to tho scono of tho wreck, Usells, tho police said, reenactod the work of tho wreckers, in pulling aplkes and loosoning rails. Usells in his statement doclarod that at tho union mooting on Saturday, Satur-day, a cpoaker, whoso namo ho did not glvo although the pollco are said to know It, did not instruct him and his threo companions to wreck a train. He Bald tho apoakor spoko as follows : "You go out to Gary or somowhoro In that neighborhood and Jimmy tho track to cauBo troublo and mako it appear that oqulpmont Is In bum con. dltlon and that It's dangerous for train crews to rlda trains." On tho day aftor tho wrock, Usells Use-lls asortod, plans woro lnld for him and Alosso to go to Elkhart, Ind., somo tlmo tho next wook and sook work In tho Now York Contral shops, supposodly as strikebreakers In au at-tompt at-tompt to dorall tho Twontloth Contury Con-tury limited. Tho arrests, tho pollco doclarod, probably prevented furthor vlolenco. |