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Show - INDIANAPOLIS, April 24. t By an order of Judge J. T. Mar- -f- key of the Marlon county crlm- inal court today, only tho 4- county prosecutor, members -f- of the grand Jury and officials -f- of tho International Aasorla- tlon of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers will bo pcrnrttted to examine the books and pa- pers taken from the olllccs of -f- tho association. """ This action, taken on application of (ho attorneys of the association and with the approval of the county prosecutor, prose-cutor, bars private detectives and unofficial un-official investigators from inspecting tho books, correspondence an.l documents. docu-ments. The material was locked up in the grand jury room and will bo submitted to the grand jury tomorrow tomor-row in the course of the identification of the persons who deposited dynamite dyna-mite in the association's storage compartment com-partment in the basement of tho building build-ing in which are Its offices. Burns Seizes Books. A part of the books and papers were seized by the police Saturday In the raid led by William J Burns, a detective in the employ of the National Na-tional Erectors association, investigating investigat-ing dynamite explosions that have damaged bridges and buildings In the course of construction in many parts of the country and destroyed the Ixs Angeles Times building with great loss of live The raid followed the arrest of J J. McNamara, secretary-treasurer of tho Iron Workers, Indicted in Los Angeles An-geles for alleged complicity in an explosion ex-plosion at the Llewellyn Iron Works. Superintendent of Police Hyland was summoned before the grand jury and afterwards a summons was Issued Is-sued for Frank M Ryan, president of the Iron Workers' association, or dering him to produce additional records. rec-ords. Ryan was to have appeared this afternoon, but he did not do so and by order of the grand jury, Deputy Dep-uty sheriffs -went to the office building build-ing with a wagon, piled the desired documents in it and took them to the court house. It was said that the grand Jury at this time did not care to examine Ryan. The booh, and papers demanded by the grand jury were stacked about tho four packages of dynamite fuses, explosive explo-sive caps and alarm clocks discovered discov-ered by the police in Saturday night's raid. Tho explosives were removed to a secret place by the authorities and tho other material was .guarded by the police until it was taken out. Stops Burns' Investigation. Attorneys for the Iron Workers' against the removal of the records, frankly said their purpose in asking the court for tho order granted by Judge Markey, was to prevent examination exam-ination of tho books by Detective Burns and his assistants and by Waltor Drew, chief counsel for the National Erectors association. Drew said he waited with interest the return of Detective Burns from Toledo, Ohio, whore dispatches had related he obtained from the check room of tho "Union Station a suit case which Burns said belonged eitliqr to J. W McNamara or.Ort'e McManlgal and contained evidence tending to show complicity in dynamite explosions. explo-sions. Frank P. Baker,, county prosecutor, announced that the grand jury investigation in-vestigation will go Into Intimations that there was a conspiracy against the Iron Workers association and its officials resulting in the "plalntlng" of the dynamite to create evidence against them, in their offices. These allegations were contained in statements state-ments attributed to the union officials. |
