The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-04
4 Investigating An Alleged Dyna,
miting Conspiracy
STARTS AT INDIANAPOLIS
United States Prosecuting officers Are
to Present Evidence to Federal
Grand Jury in That City on
.Ef December IA.

indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 4.--"Some per-
sons that have apparently been 50 aston
ished by the pleas of guilty by the
Mcnamara brothers may be still further
amazed" said a representative OF the
employers organization which is watch
ing the federal probe here into an al
legged nationwide dynamiting conspiracy
to-day. "No one at all informed believes
the McNamaras were alone in the opera
tions that covered hundred explosions
from coast to coast, and the cost was an
enormous sum of money.
Plans for the federal investigation
went forward yesterday and to-day. De-
tective William j. Burns discussed with
United States District Attorney Charles
w. Miller the evidence to be presented
to the federal grand jury when it re-
sumes its session Dec. Ia. Neither would
make a public statement in relation to
their talk. "We shall not rest until we
have brought to justice all those con-
nected with the dynamiting outrages
throughout the country said Mr.. Burns.
81 am no respecter OF persons and wheth-
er the men associated with the McNa-
maras are higher up or lower down,
they will be prosecuted
ANY exposure that win be made will
come from indictments, if indictments
are returned, for violation of the federal
statute regulating interstate transporta-
IL Ntslta. aafA In.
formation was being prepared for the
grand jury tending to show that the
MeNamaras, Ortie McManigal "and
Others violated the federal statutes, he
added.
Along this line, Mr.. Burns conferred
yesterday with j. Kirby, ir, president OF
the National Association of Manufac-
turers, and D. NJ Parry, former presi-
dent of the organization, which is inter
ested with the National Erectors' asso-
citation, it Is announced, in campsign
against alleged depredations aimed at
employers who maintain the "open shop
principle
The National Ereetors' association is
represented on The scene of the inquiry
by j. A. G. Badorf, assistant TO Walter
Drew, executive officers Of the associa
tion. Mr.. Badorf arrived yesterday. Sew
eral detectives in the employ OF the as
sociation have been in the city for weeks
and are said to be watching the move
ments of persons presumed to have been
concerned with John D. McNamara's af-
fairs during the years he was in this
city ms secretary of the international
Association Of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, the books and correspon-
dencesSf which are now in the hands of
the federal grand jury.
"The fact that the two men are to be
punished for dynamiting is not the most
important feature of this investigation,
said Mr.. Badorf. "1'he members of the
National Erectors' association are inter-
ested chiefly in exposing and bringing to
Justice the persons responsible for one
hundred explosions, destruction of bridge
and structural iron work, since August,
1905. in many states, from Massachu-
setts to the Pacific coast
"The property destroyed was that of
companies employing non-union iron
workers. The cost of this campaign of
terrorism was enormous, and it was sys-
tematiealTy carried on. We assert that
n number of men besides the McNamaras
were concerned in the plans for the ex-
plosions and we purpose to assist in
! every way in uncovering them. We
shall lend every assistance to the federal
authorities and we have every assurance
that the investigations will be most
thorough"