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Show I oo ) JAPPEAL TO- THE JUHORS In Behalf of Forty Alleged Al-leged Dynamiters is Made By Nowlan Indianapolis, Dec. 20. "If you believe be-lieve these men are guilty it Is your duty to convict them, but ir you undertake un-dertake to piece the evidence together togeth-er with suspicions and inferences, you should think of lives you arc about to wreck " Henry I. Nowlan, Peoria, so appealed appeal-ed to the jury today on behalf or the forty dcrendants In the "dynamite conspiracy" trial. Attorney Nowlan rcicrrod to Ortic E McManigal as an "arch fiend," and attacked his con fession in Implicating others in explosions ex-plosions as not having been silTTI-ciently silTTI-ciently corroborated. "Chiefly upon the word of this con-fesscd con-fesscd criminal you are asked to separate sep-arate forty men from their homes and deprive them of their liberty," said Mr. Nowlan "Of course, McManigal Mc-Manigal never expected to tell his story. In traveling about tho country coun-try blowing up non-union jobs he had no future object iu view when he saw as many people as possible and left behind him evidence of his visit. Of courde he did not deliberately plan to Implicate others. He was not twice brought from Los Angeles for that." Gray's Defense. William A. Gray. Philadelphia, another counsel for tho defense, told the Jurors that none of the defendants defend-ants approved of tho acts of the Mc-Namara Mc-Namara brothers, or of tho assaults and riots in labor disputes, as had been described by witnesses. "But these assaults are offenses especially es-pecially reserved for the states to handle." said Mr. Gray. "It is not the mission or the federal govemmeut hero to step in. The only charge the federal government can bring is that of illegal transportation of explosives. "Why then did the government bring in all thla evidence about explosives? ex-plosives? Its only purpose was to inspire horror in the minds of you jurors. If these men had transported dvnnmile to San Francisco during the earthquake there and used it to destroy de-stroy buildings so that fire might not spread, if Hiev had been actuated by this humane motive, they would have been equally guilty under the law. The law has only to do with transportation, not to the motive for that transportation " nn |