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-WI 1i":fSt';'''"H''T ""''' W hfe - Kr kf . & -- -- Jr- f WHAT AILS WOOD, INDICTED WOOL TRUST HEAD? , i Boston, 'Sept; 7. William rM. Wood is a strange character. Head of. the iniquitous wool trust, he has long been an expon ent of labor-oppressing capital ism. Hejfas recently been in dicted for alleged conspiracy to "place" dynamite in Lawrence during ther textile 'strikef in order to injure the? cduse of his1 own workers, "' And yetlVilliam M. Wood him'self sprang from 'the same class that Tie 'has so bitterly op pressed. - LittLesmore than twenty years ago WriliamJVfoods?slaving--in William; W. Wood leaving Bos ton court house, after indictment. Below, fisherman's hut fii Edgar- town, where Wood was born. a wool factory in New Bedford, Mass. He'was only fifteen years old, and. to make a bare living he had to work over a loom some thing like fifteen hours a day. Today -Wdliam.Wood is dolng ... ... -.v . j .j-- mmmmmmmajMjtmm