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Show CAPTURE OF DYNAMITE F1ENDSU Four Knights of Labor Arrested In St. r.ouls for What Ought to be a. Hanging Offense. St. Louis, November 5. The police authorities author-ities gave ont this afternoon that they last night arrested David Keenan, W. P. Sears, P. S. Burns, D. "Weathers and Master Workman Work-man Pilkerton of the Knights of Labor, all street railroad men, upon the charge that they had been engaged in the recent explo sion on the street-car tracks. Another man, John Shaughnessy, was arrested this afternoon. after-noon. The men arrested are all strikers. They were arrested at 139 Luoas avenue, from which place it is claimed they directed the operations. A quantity of dynamite and caps have been found there. The assertion is made that they purchased the dynamite in Louisville with MONEY FUBNISHED BY THE KNIGHTS OF LA BOB, Ostensibly to buy food for the strikers' families. fam-ilies. St. Louis, November 6. The plot in the scheme was given to the police by George R. Withrop, conductor on the Broadway line, who struck when the other men did. He made himself very conspicuous during the first week, and was twice arrested, once for assault to kill, for which he is now under bonds. The police have suspected from his actions lately that he knew more about the affairs and conduct of the strikers than he was disposed to tell, and by various means known to the police they finally FORCED HTM TO CONFESS WHAT HE KNEW. He made a long and circumstantial statement, state-ment, the material points of which were giving the names of his associates, the time and place of their meeting, that their purpose pur-pose was to blow up the cars, and that Weathers was the man who purchased the dynamite and managed the explosions. The names given are those mentioned above, except ex-cept Shaughnessy. He also said that Isaac ' Dryden knew of the plot, but took no aotive part in it. Finkerton is Master Workman of the Cleveland Assembly of the Knights of Labor, which is composed wholly of street car men; Keenan is treasurer, and one or two of them belonged to the exeoutive committee commit-tee which was so active in managing the strikers. THE PBISONEBS WEBE ALL ABBESTED IN BED During Wednesday night, and taken to Four Courts, where they were put in hold-over. Chief of Police Harrigan had them brought to him one at a time, and questioned them closely. All of them denied most emphatically emphati-cally having had anything whatever to do with the scheme, or knowing anything about it, and asserted most earnestly that they were opposed to the use of dynamite and favored peaceable means and arbitration to settle their troubles with railway companies. The chief, however, presented to them many things about the plott showed them the DrNAKITE' FOUND IN THE BOOMS OF TWO OF i THEM And they finally yielded to the strain and made a clean breast of it. A valise was fount in the rooms of Sears and Weathers, 2,119 Locust avenue, which contained two sticls of dynamite about six inches long, andtwo copper percussion caps for exploding explod-ing he sticks. Ten other sticks had been usee in the explosions which had wrecked fou" cars and terribly frightened a large nrmber of people. Weathers, who is . a plotographer by occupation, but who hid been driving on tne wasnington srenue car line is believed to be the leader f the party. At all events, he is said to lave worked the dynamite part of the affair. Casper Heep, who" was secretary of the executive ex-ecutive board of the Knights of Labor, 'which managed the strike as long as it had any life in it, went to Four Courts this afternoon after-noon to surrender himself if wanted by the' police. He was told, however, that ho was not wanted at present. He strenuously denies de-nies having had any knowledge of the plot, and would not at first believe that some of the men arrested were Knights of Labor. |