OCR Text |
Show II DYNAMITER S SENT TO JAIL I John L. Butler Declared 9 a Perjurer by Judge I Anderson. I Indianapolis, Dec l? tt,t, t t . a ler r: TtiifCi , s- John l. Bat- namlte conspiracy" trfaL t pT, , z'00 members, and with S ?n h Jf cbaicd as S one? of r JSte SS b "tosd lo pro- S2t?Ute PlDsi including 25? V110 proBceutlon and tho defense rested their caacs, with the ffiES ??" thC , caao Wi the ai Judge Anderson delivered from his ,seat a scathing arraignment of what Place hero in thj last two weeks." i don't boUove," said Judge Anderson, An-derson, referring to tho stories of Ji..lU?Maulla and dynamiting told on the witness stand, "and if I did I would not have any hope for this country. K? organized lahor stands for the KSfi that havo bccn shown here." This an Butler took tho stand to-aay to-aay and he sworo to some things he know were not true, and everybody hero knew ho was committing perjury i hero are a few people in this coun-,try coun-,try who must be told that the law Is tho law and If there Is any gentleman in this court room who feels that the shoo fits him, lot him put it on I have novor seen a display such as has taken tak-en place hero In the last two weeks and I have been a lawyer and on the bench for tho last thirty-four years," Judge Anderson's remarks wore made after tho Jury had been rotlred for tho day and after Clarence E. Dowd, Rochester. N. Y, formerly or-If or-If ganizer for the International Assocla- Jfo Vi0n of MachInists in Detroit, had been W r discharged on the ground that sufti- c ent evidence did not exist against 1 ; him. Dowd was tho onlv defendant 1 t0 e discharged, leaving forty men .1 whose cases are to go to the jury. A ' Butler, early In the day, entered a jf general denial that he knew of anv f, dynamite plots. Particularly he de- n f nled knowlodgo that the union appro- r prlated $1,000 a month to John J Me- I t Naraara, which the government charg- I. es was used to defray the expenses of jl the djnamiters. Checkbool:s in which i the stubs recorded a payment to Me lt Namara while Butler was a member 1 3f the executive board were produced. |