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Show SECOND WITNESS MCOiinSE LOS ANGELES, CaL, Jan 10. Tho stato put on Its second leading witness wit-ness today In tho trial of Bert Con-ners, Con-ners, the union structural iron work-or work-or Indicted on the charge of having conspired to dynamite the count hall of records. The witnoBS was J. Man-soil Man-soil Parks, who deolarcd that he had heard Conners say he intended to blow up tiie building Hie testimonj was given amid a constant fire or objections on tho part of tho defense, and while it was going on Deputy District Attorney Horton Bald he expected ex-pected to connect othor union labor men with the alloged conspiracy. Parks' declaration wna the second direct statement regarding the imputed imput-ed attempt to blow upuhc county building on SepL 9, 1910. The first was contained in the testimony rendered ren-dered yesterday by Josoph Bishop, a mombor of tho iron workors' union, who declared he saw Conners take the dynamite from the labor temple babement and later under cross-ex-aminntion admitted that ho was now In the employ of the county dotectho buroau. Like Bi6hop, Parks Baid he was a membor of a labor union and also had been employed by the district dis-trict attorney as a detcotive. Parks testified that ho wats a mom-ber mom-ber of tho strike committee which directed tho walkout of employes of tho Llewellyn Iron works, the Hrm which had tho contiact to supply steel for tho hall of recordB, and which on Christmas das', 1910, was blown up and partial! wrecked by Ortio E McManigal. John J McNanura confessed con-fessed to complicity In this crlmo at tho tlmo his brother pleadod guilty to having caused the Times explosion Deputy District Attorney Horton niioaHnnnH Tnrla rnpnrrllntr mooflncrs of the striko commltteo and when tho dofense objected that this was Irrelevant the prosecutor sprang another an-other mild Eeneatlon by declaring to the court that he expectod to connect con-nect others besides Bonder and Maple, Conners' co-defendants, with tho alleged al-leged hall of records crime. Tho name of George Gunrey, a prominent Los Angeles labor official and momber of the strike committee, was. brought into Parks' statemont, when the witness declared that Conners Con-ners gave him a letter addressed U r.umey. Instead ot taking the letter direct to Gunrey, Parks said ho carried car-ried it to the district attorney's office whero it was photographed. and thon delivered it to tho addrobsee. Gunrey was a promtnont witness In the grand jury Invostlcatlon of tho Times ex-plosiou ex-plosiou and the alloged attempt, to wreck tho hall of records. In tho purported Jolter to Gunrey, ' Connors, according to tho photographed photo-graphed copy, .which was placed In evidence and read, to tho jury, asked for money to "get out of tho country." coun-try." Tho letter read further: "Thoy aro on my trail and I havo to boat It I want to go to Panama, They aro after me and are going to got mo unless I get away. If you will let ma havo tho money you will not hear from' mejany more. I leave it to you." ' ' Tho letter was dated May 15, 1911. a abort time boforo tho Indictments were returned against Conners, Maple and Bender. Parke told of first meeting Connors at the Labor Temple when both were members of the striko committee "Connors camo to my desk tho afternoon af-ternoon of Sept 6, 1910," Parks testified, tes-tified, "and told mo he was going home to rout He Bald ho was going out that night to blow up tho hall of records." Parks, who declared he also know Maple and Bonder, said he next met Connors at tho Labor Tcraplo April 27P 1911. "He told me the pollco had nothing against him, ' otated Parks. 'He told about the dynamite ho had with him and how Maplo and Bonder also carried car-ried explosives." |
