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Show SOCIALISTS II PRIL Former Friend Charges That Harriman Knew of Dynamiting Plot Los Angeles, Aug. S. The alleged connection between tho men who blew up the Times building in Los Angeles and Job Harriman, Socialist leader and labor attorney, overshadowed overshad-owed the main issue involved when the bribery trial of Clarence S. Dar-row Dar-row was resumed today. Judge Hut-ton Hut-ton was expected to rulo when court convened on tho admlssabllity of testimony tes-timony br Edward Adams Cantrell, another Socialist leader, which the prosecution declared would serve the double purpose of impeaching Harriman Harri-man and showing him as having had guilty knowledge of the perpetrators of the Times explosion. Cantrell and Harriman broke up their friendship some months ago. The Impeaching quostlon which had been denied by Harriman and which wac TnpntPfl tr h ancwnrorl In thp affirmative by Cantrell should the court permit It, contained In substance sub-stance the following allegations: That Harriman had said to Cantrell Can-trell on the morning of October 1 at San Luis Obispo, Cal., "By God, Cantrell, Can-trell, the Times building has been dynamited dy-namited and something like twenty people killed." that Harriman had taken Cantrell to his room in a hotel ho-tel locked the door and then burst into a fit of laughter, after which Cantrell said:( "What does it mean?" That Harriman replied: "It means that the boys are on the job;" that a few moments later Harriman said; "I have known for some time that preparations wero being made to pull off the job;" and that In -the resulting result-ing conversation Harriman had told Cantrell he had been in consultation with the plotters and had begged them to postpone the matter until after the state Socialist convention. Cantrell at tho time was Socialist candidate for secretary of state and last fall he ran for member of the board of education on the ticket which Harriman headed as candidate for mayor According to Harriman, Cantrell was ibis ardent supporter and warm friend until a recent split among the California Socialists, when he became a bitter enemy. |