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'LMiPfJSWipp.W!J'miWi ppjMftMJ!1)! Cambridge dog fancier, and one other man whose name is not yet known, were all indicted by the grand jury on the same charge. Collins is a dost . friend of Breen's, the Lawrence politician who was found guilty of the actual planting of the dynamite and fined only $500. The third indicted man is be lieved to be the president of a big textile mill at Lawrence." The grand jury has been in vestigating the dynamite conspir acy for some time. Ernest W. Pitman, millionaire head of the W. W. Pitman Co., one of the biggest mill construction com panies in the world, shot and killed himself last Tuesday when called upon to testify before it. Pitman had made a full confes sion to District Attorney Pelle tier of the conspiracy against the Strikers after a night of third de gree sweating. Wood was in New York wherf the indictment against him was Returned. Pelletier telephoned to him and asked if he wanted to come back to Boston with or without a police guard. Wood said he would come back bf his own free will, " and this morning surrendered to Police Inspector Lynch at police head quarters. He was accompanied By former Congressman Samuel Powers, who probably will de lend him. From police headquarters, the tvool magnate was taken to the criminal courts and arraigned. By arrangement with the district attorney he was released on $5,- 000 bail, thus escaping going into" a cell next to Collins, who was arrested last nighfc. The indictment against Wood directly charges him with con Qnirintr with nther mill owners -to plant dynamite in the homes or? strikers' in order to discredit their cause, and hurt unionism. After his release on bail, Wood made the following statement: "I am surprised by the .action of the grand jury. I cannot think what information given the" jurors could have connected me. with the dynamite plot. 1 cer- . tainly had no connection with itt as I shall prove in good time." Wood refused to have anything-' to say when it was suggested to him that one millionaire mill man had already confessed his share in the dynamite conspiracy, and killed himself after doing so. Wood always has been, the bit- -ter enemy of trade unionism, and through his privately owned sen--ators and congressmen has been one of the chief causes of the high cost of living in this country. Wood is the biggest man in the wool industry in the world. He . organized the trust He-is pres ident of the American Woolen ; Co., which is the trust. He is pres ident and treasurer of the Na tional and Providence worsted , mills in Rhode Island He is di- rector of the Merchants' National, bank and of the Pierce Mfg. Co. of New Bedford, Mass, He is a member of the National Associa tion of Wool Manufacturers and the Home Market club. -. Wood is the son of a Portu- " 2i Ku iLt.tAtiiSiti'hmiiil