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Show MffllKS HELD AS sunn Salt Lake. Nov 20. W L. Cum-mlngs Cum-mlngs arre&ted last July by federal authorities, charged with semding blackhand letters through the mails, was indicted by the federal grand jury yesterday. Two indictments were brought against Cummlng-s. one In the case of a blackhand letter which he is alleged to have sent Miff Dorothy Bamberger on July 13, de-. de-. Bunding $1000, and the other in the lease of a letter which he is alleged to have sent to Miss May Donohue. I on July 17, also demanding 91000 umming's arrest last July was I made by ,J. Gaylord, a private de-! de-! tective, who had traced t ummings to I a local machinery shop, where It was said hp was about to purchase ma tc-rlal for the construction of an In ! fcrnal maehine. When brought before the United I States marshal and the United States I commissioner, t'ummings admitted B ! part in sending the letters, but he implicated a man by the name of E I A Burge, who, he declared, instigat ' ed the work. Burge was not found by the local authorities. i timmlngs admitted writing the I letters on a typewriter and drawing the diagram of an Infernal machine m inn nape oi a sun titsf contain ing nitroglycerin and batteries with w hich to tou h the explosives off. I Cummings testified that he was forced forc-ed to write the letters, at the point of a gun In the hands of Burge. It was believed at the time of the arrest that Cummings might have become associated with Rurge for I the purpose of getting funds for the perfection of an automatic clearance i block signal for use on railroad's. I According to George Budd of the ; Morby Automatic Swlth & Patent j company, Cummings did have a plan I for such a signal. It was believed 1 that Cummings wrote the letters in I Mr. Budd's office where be bad ac-I ac-I cess to a typewriter. These indictments were the most important oneB returned by the grand jury, which adjourned yesterday af-i af-i temoon. The jury was impaneled on November 10 and had to decide on fifteen alleged violations of tbe sta j tutes of the United States. Seven ln-j ln-j dlctments were mad and eight al- leged violations were ignored. Of the 6evcn Indictments, bench war- rants have yet to be served on the persons involved In four of the casos I Besides the ludictments of Cummings the one made public yesterday was ; of Frank and Nick Soter of Mldvale, who were alleged to have stolen from a D. & R. n freight car nineteen ' pairs of shoes on October 5 last |