Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-18 | Page 3 | Conspiracy Was Many Years Old

00 CONSPIRACY IS IM YEARS OLD INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 17. Statements that certain men knew about the dynamite conspiracy as early as October, 1900, but that their information was withheld for pur-pobes pur-pobes of prosecution, camo to tho attention at-tention of tho federal grand jury today. to-day. The fact becamo known through the story told by John Half man, a saloon keeper According to Half-man, Half-man, a room rented at his saloon by strangers was used as a meeting place for the men who blew up a building under construction by John von Spreckclsen, an "open shop" contractor con-tractor in Indianapolis. Ope of tho visitors at Halfman's place was identified by Mrs. Alta Hawkins as the man who told her to "look out for a big noise" just before tho explosion. Impressed with what he had learned, Qbarles A. Bookwalter, then mayor of Indianapolis, later said he urged tho police to question this man as to who wad concerned la the dynamiting, dyna-miting, but no prosecutions followed, Hnlfman is to. appear beforo the fed-oral fed-oral grand Jury. Subpoenas also woro issued for S. P. Meadows, business agent of the district council of the National Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and J. P. Etchison, a lo- iTHHHiHHIIHHI " cal 'official of the building laborers' union. Although one hundred or more explosions ex-plosions which arc alleged lo form the dynamite conspiracy took place in cities scattered in seventeen states, United States Attorney Miller has. received re-ceived no applications for evidence obtained by tho government for use in county "prosecutions. Mr. Miller said today that all tho government evidence will be available lo county 'prosecutors after the grand Jury's work.