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Show FIVE MEN ARE ON TRIAL FOR MURDER PLOT TO DERAIL TRAIN AT GARYi INDIANA, IS ADMITTED BY MEN NOW ON TRIAL Speaker Told Men to Jimmy Track and Make Equipment Appear In Poor Condition. Men Held Former 8hop Workers t t Chicago. Flvo mon charged wita murder Tuesday ttccused ot wrecking the "million dollar oxpress" on the Michigan Central near Gary, Ind., August 20, when two ot tho train crow were killed. Flvo othora wore hold In connection connec-tion with the wreck investigation and at least two moro who aro known were sought, acordlng to tho police Confessions obtalnod from aomo of the prisoners not only solved tho wreck ot tho express, but bared a plot to send the Twontloth Century limited, crack Now York-Chicago train Into the ditch Bear Elkhart, Ind., tho police said. The flvo who faco murder charges are: Josoph Papourvltch, Charlos Usells, John Potrowski, Albino Alcaslo and James Prohetsh. All woro said to bo striking shopmen. Usolls, Potrowakl and Papourvltch woro said to have confessed tho wreck plot Tho men woro omployod in Now York Central shops. Thoy named Alcsslo In tholr confessions, and ho admlttod knowlodge ot the plot, according to pollco, but main-1 talned that Usells, Potrowski and , Papourvltch were rosponslblo for the wreck. Taken to the sceno ot the' wrock, Usolls, the police said, roonacted tho work of the wreckers, In pulling spikes and loosening rails. Usells In his statement declared that at tho union mooting on Saturday, Satur-day, a spoaker, whoso namo ho did not glvo although tho police aro said to know it, did not Instruct him and his three companions to wrock a train. He said the spoaker spoko as follows : "You go out to Gary or Boroowhoro in that neighborhood and Jimmy the track to cause troublo and make It appoar that equipment Is In bum con. dltlon and that It's dangerous tor train crews to ride trains." On the day after the wreck, Usolls Uso-lls asorted, plans were laid tor him and Alosso to go to Elkhart, Ind., some tlmo the next week and Book work in the Now York Central shops, supposedly as strlkobreakora in an attempt at-tempt to derail the Twontloth Century Cen-tury limited. The arrests, tho police doclarod, probably prevontod furthor violence |