The San Francisco call., 1907-06-06
carmen SAY THEY KNEW
Of DYNAMITE SHIPMENT
Declare United Roads Laid
Deep Plot to Discredit
the Union
SEYMOUR is AROUSED
Doubts Wornan's Statement
That Another Package
Arrived
SEYMOUR is AROUSED

mat Anotner PaCKage
Arrived
Two men, whose identity is not
+, known, drove up to the home OF John
Mcdonald, a striking carman living at
1904 Grove street yesterday, according
to Mrs. Mcdonald, and offered her a
bundle tightly wrapped and secured
with heavy cord, which she refused to
take. The package is said to have con-
tanned dynamite. Mrs. Mcdonald had
been warned, she says. not to take any
strange looking bundles.
President Cornelius of the carmen'5
! union notified the police Of the matter
when he went to Captain Colby's head
quarters yesterday afternoon to tell
what he knew of the bundle of dyna-
mite sent to Harry and William Glynn
at 1042 Tennessee street on Tuesday.
The delivery OF the dynamite 70
the Glynn brothers has caused a storm
of conflicting statements and counter
accusations. Leaders of the carmen
charge the United Railroads with
Matching a poor hoax: the Wells. Fargo
express company accuses an individual,
who gave the name Of H. Reid, as being
the one who in San Mateo shipped at
least one package of nitrogIycerine to
,
by the striking carmen in their nznt
with the United Railroads; the United
Railroads in turn charges the strikers
with importing the explosive stun IN
order to destroy company property and
kill its employees; and finally Captain
Seymour, chief of the detective depart
ment of the wells-Fargo company, says
that no matter who sent the stuff he
will spare no expense In running the
guilty parties down and prosecuting 9
them to the limit of the law.
SEYMOUR Is INDIGNANT
In this connection the veteran detec-
terday:
"a more inhuman crime could not be
imagined than to send dynamite
through an express company. One
package certainly was SO sent by Fl.
Reid, whoever he is. from San Mateo AMI
was addressed to the Glynn brothers
1t did not lie in the Offices of my COM
pany. as President Cornelius says, for
two weeks. but was delivered as soon
as 1t came.
Suppose an expressman at the ferry
or some other station had dropped the
bundle. Hundreds of lives and thou
sands of dollars worth OF property
| might have been sacrificed. My COM
pany will get the man who sent that
package IL it takes a year. We do
not care whether 1t is a labor leader
or a man of the rank and file. nor do
we care whether it is the president Of
the United Railroads. The man re-
spensible for the shipment OF nitro
glycerin unmarked and indistinguish-
able from thousand other bundles
will be caught and prosecuted.
The Wells-Fargo company has moth
ing to do with quarrels between the
management of the United Railroads
and its former employees, but is very
much concerned in the protection of
its own property and the lives of its
employees and the people riding on the
trains
| I'VE have had special agent in San
Mateo investigating this matter. The
day before the delivery of the dyna-
mite to the Glynn brothers two men
came to the San Mateo ONCE with a
bundle and presented 1t to the young
! lady in charge. One of the men gave
the name of H. Reid and paid 40 cents
! expressage. The package was ad-
Tennessee street. Reid was about 40
years of age, short, stout, and was
dressed in the garb of workingman
The clerk receipted for the package
and sent it. Suppose she had dropped
1t, or the man placing 1t in the car
had carelessly thrown 1t to the floor.
Hundreds Of lives might have been
! lost.
CONTRADICTS CORNELIUS
| .'T cannot understand President Cor
nelius' statement that he knew of this
shipment two weeks ago. In the first
place, the package was not sent two
weeks ago, and in the second place, II
he knew 1t, surely it was his duty to
let us know. His failure to advise us
placed hundreds of lives In jeopardy.
AS for the shipment reported today
| of bundle of something to Mcdonald
/ 1t did mot go through Wells-Fargo's
Office. There is no record of my COM
pany having taken such a package or
of delivering it, nor evidence that 1t
contained dynamite"
The following members of the car
mems union made statements yester-
day to Captain Colby about the ship
ment to the Glynn brothers: Richard
! Cornelius, president of the carmen 8
union; Howell c. Jeffries, 1895 Tennes-
/ see street; Harry Harrison, 1044 Mis-
sissippi street; Harry and William
Glynn, 1042 Tennessee street; w. H.
Baker, 1929 Twenty-second street, and
John Devany, s24 Minnesota street.
Captain Colby declined to state the
nature of the evidence adduced before
him, saying that others OF the carmen's
union were to be examined later. He
wanted toe see IL the testimony of one
would be corroborated by the remain
| ing witnesses
John Mcdonald, one of the men ac-
cused by the United Railroads OF being
implicated in the short circuiting of its
wires in Church street and who "a
under arrest, was the striking carman
to whose house the package was sent
yesterday.
Mcdonald claims that he has been
singled out by the company as an OBJ
| Ject to persecution because CT his ac-
tfvity in the strike of year ago. He
says that at that time he was ap-
preached by Calhoun with a PROPOSE
tion to sell the union out and that when
he refused Calhoun threatened ITO get
| him."
The railroad sent a spy among us
several weeks ago." Mcdonald said yes
terday. but the man wouldn't stand
for the dirty trick he was>supposed to
aid in and let the cat out of the bag
about this dynamite affair. We knew