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Show CLARK HAS CONFESSED Munsey Harbored Mc- M Namara in Salt Lake H After Times Explosion M Indianapolis Oct. 7. Edward Clark of Cincinnati today pleaded guilty to the Rovcrnment's charges In the dy- H nam I to conspiracy. H As soon aB court opened District Attorney Charles W Miller addressed H Federal Judge A. B. Anderson. "If It please the court the defend- H ant Clark of Cincinnati, wishes to chango his pica from nof. guilty to Clark then stepped forward. "Do you plead guilty?" asked Judge H "I plead guilty," said Clark. H Tho prisoner was separated from H the other 45 defendants and taken to jail to await the Imposing of his sen- H I tencc. Clark pleaded guilty to all tho H and fifty counts of being a principal H I to tho actual illegal interstate ship- H i mont of dynamite and nltro-glycorln. H Clark was business agent and pros- H ident of local union No. 44 of the H International Association of Bridge H and Structural Iron Workers from H January, 1908, to July, 1911. His ac- H tivlties In promoting explosions, Mr. H Miller assorted, wore carried on jH through lotters written by Frank M, H Ryan, president of tho -union, and the H McNamaras. An ivory handled urn- H brclla bearing the Initials, "E. C." IH found in the wreckage of' a dynamited H bridge at Dayton, O., Mr. Miller said, 1 led to the disclosure that Clark had H actually caused the explosion, having H used tho umbrella to protect the dy- H namite from the rain and then leaving It behind. H Clark Wrote Letter. H Clark was also charged with carry- H ing out plots against employers of non-union labor. In connection with H a scheme to blow up the Harrison av- H enue viaduct at Cincinnati Mr. Miller H alleged, Clark wrote to Ryan- H "It would be vdangerous for me to H buy oxploslves down here. You had l better send a stranger. I have gotten H ono man out of a lot of troublo al- H ready. I am afraid I can't do much H more, for the police judge said, 'For H God's sake don't bring this bunch be- H fore me again or I'll have to da some- - Herbert S. Hockin, acting secretary- H treasurer of the union, was charge-1 by Mr. Miller with "double dealing" with Clark. M "The executive board of the iron vorkers' union agreed upon a fixed H price of -?200 for each job," said Mr Miller to the jury. "For the blowing H up of a bridge over the Miami river a( Dayton, May 3. 1908, Hockin paid H Clark only $122 50, thus holding out ' part of the fee." H Pointing toward Eugeno A. Clanc. and Olaf A. Yveltmoe of San Fran- H Cisco Mr. Miller said it would be shown that thov helped In promoting H the Los Angeles Times disaster, and IH that "lack Bright." known as J. E. H Munsey, fnr two weeks after the ex- ))lo5ion harbored J B McNamara at H Salt Lake City, Utah B |