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Show HELPED MAN TO ESCAPE Ryan Denies Charge but Admits Using Money to Save ODonnell. Indianapolis, Ind Dec. 4. Charges that Frank M. Ryan, president of the Iron workers' union, and Frank C. Webb of New York, a union officinl. helped an accused dynamltod to escape, es-cape, were made In tho cross-examination of Ryan by the government at th0 alleged dvnamite cousplracy trial today. It was brought out that George O'-Donnoll, O'-Donnoll, an iron workor, after an explosion ex-plosion on a brlilse at Somerset, Mass., lu June of 1908, was convict- H ed of attempting to kill and that aft- i H ei his release from tho penitentiary he j H escaped scrvico of papors charging H him with dynamiting. t District Attorney Miller charged H Ryan and Webb with helping O'Don- : nell to "make a getaway." Ryan de- H nied tho charge, but admitted the un- H Ion paid several thousand dollars to ' H O'Douncll. employed lawyers in his H behalf and conducted a correspond- ; H ence "to steal the march on them H when O'Donnell got out of the first . H charge." H "Why wore you and Webb so am:- H ious to have O'Donnell escape, and. H why did you use so much of the un- H ion's funds to help men when the un- H Ion treasury was impoverished?" ask- H ed Mr. Miller. "We folt that he was being perse- I cuted That was all," answered Mr. IH Ryan. The witness said J. J. McNamara, jH now in prison as a dynamiter, helped 'H in O'Donnell's case. ,'H |