Joe Angell, one of the leaders in the
dynamite conspiracy, had turned state's evidence! He had revealed to
the District Attorney, not only the part which he himself had played
in the plan to dynamite Nelse Ackerman's home, but he had told
everything that the others had done--just how the dynamite had been
got and prepared, and the names of all the leading citizens of the
community who were to share Nelse Ackerman's fate! Peter read, on
and on, breathless with wonder, and when he got thru with the story
he rolled back on his bed and laughed out loud. By heck, that was
the limit! Peter had framed a frame-up on Guffey's man, and of
course Guffey couldn't send this man to prison; so he had had him
turn state's evidence, and was letting him go free, as his reward
for telling on the others!
The court calendars were now crowded with "espionage" cases;
pacifist clergymen who had tried to preach sermons, and labor
leaders who bad tried to call strikes; members of the
Anti-conscription League and their pupils, the draft-dodgers and
slackers; Anarchists and Communists and Quakers, I. W. Ws., and
Socialists and "Russellites." There were several trials going on all
the time, and in almost every case Peter had a finger, Peter was
called on to get this bit of evidence, or to investigate that juror,
or to prepare some little job against a witness for the defense.
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