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Show PUT8 ALL THE BLAME ON BREEN One of Alleged Dynamite Conspirators Conspira-tors At Lawrence On trie Witness Stand Iloston, Mass, May 20. Dennis .1. Collins, n dog fancier of Cambridge, on trial with President William M. Wood of the American Woolen company com-pany and Frederick E. Aueaux. n Iloston do manufacturer, for conspiracy con-spiracy to "plant" dynamlto nt Lawrence Law-rence during tho textile strike of 1912 testified ns i witness for tho prosecution prose-cution when tho trial wns resumed today. Collins said that on January ID, 1012 ho met John J. llreon, tho Lawrence undertaker, who wns convicted of nc-tually nc-tually "pluming" tho explosive In n saloon In Iloston. In tho course' of their conversation Dreen nsked If ho would like to go to Lawrence that night "I told him I would go If I could help him nny," Collins said. Dreen continued: "Wo will probnbly meet some folks nnd you had bettor carry this bundlo to keep your end up; nt tho samo tlmo hnndlng tho witness somo bills". Tlio witness said Hreen agreed to glvo him moro jnoney. Contents of Package "Felt Cold" After they left tho saloon he. met two men. Ono of tho men described by tho witness ns Mr. Tttso gavo Ilrccn a package weighing about forty for-ty pounds, which they carried to llrccn's house In Lawrcnco and open-od. open-od. It contained sticks which felt "cold." 'I nsked Hreen what they wore," tho witness added, "and ho told mo It was Juice." Collins said that when ho pressed Hreen for nn explanation of tho pack- ago, Dreen said: "You'll see tho Joko tomorrow." The witness told of a conrersatton In which Breon said: "I'll bo mayor of this city next year. Thero Is n million mil-lion back of mo." "I asked him what ho meant," said Collins, "nnd ho asked mo If I knew President Wood of tho American Woolen company. I told him I did not and then ho Bald thht I would sco tho Joko In the papers tho next day. ' Went Out In Sleigh That samo night, Collins sold they went out In a sleigh, carrying somo small bundles made from tho contents of tho bundlo brought from Boston. Thoy loft packages at a Syrian tailor tail-or shop and H cobbler Bhop and also deposited ono In St. Mary's cemetery. Another payment of 25 was made by Hreen to Collins, nrcen said that ho had received $100 arid ho wanted to "split oven" with tho witness. Ab tho witness was leaving Lawrence, Hrcen's parting words to him wero: "Mum's tho word." Tho word "dynamlto" was not mentioned men-tioned by Hreen, Collins said, tho contents con-tents of tho packages being referred to ns "Julco." On tho day that Breen's trial began be-gan at Salem, Charles Breen cnlled nt Collins' homo In Cambridge. "llo told me," said the witness, that his brother, John, had sent him to tell mo to 'beat It.'" Collins said that until ho rend In tho newspapers of tho discovery of tho dynamlto nt Lawrence, he did not know that tho packages distributed by Hreen nnd himself contnlned dynamlto. |