New-York tribune., 1911-12-20
BENEDCT'S YACHT SAILS TELL OF DYNAMITE PERIL
Witnesses Describe MCManlgaFS
House Of Mystery.
lRONWORKERS SUBMISSIVE
Withdraw Legal Objection to
Transfer of Records from One
Jurisdiction to Another.

Indiananois, Dec 19.-Peoplc who for
weeks unknowingly lived near enough dyna-
mite to blow up the neighborhood, and
whose children skatod over the floors Of a
vacant house in which nitroglycerlne had
been spilled, testified In the governments
investigation of the dynamite conspiracy
before the federal grand jury to-day.
Witnesses from Muncie. Ind. were asked
concerning what they knew of the renting
Of a house in Muucie To Ortie f.. MCManigal
I'm December. 1909. After paying rent for
several months In advance McManieal
stored the house with boxes and sawdust, in
which he packed nitroslycerine. The fact
that the rent had been paid and that the
house always in darkness, was visited
periodically by a stranger created an ele-
ment Of mystery which was unsolved even
after the place. again deserted. was thrown
open and school children skated over the
floors. upon which appeared grease spots.
Later 1t was ascertaincd the spots were
caused by nitroglycerinc, and experts wore
called to destroy their explosive powers.
| Among the witnesses from Munce were
Mrs. Elizabeth Hiner. Isaac Grant and a
manufacturer who sold boxes TO McMangal.
| The evidence was traced by the investi-
gators not only to confirm McManigars con-
| fession. which duplicates John J. and James
II. Mcnamara, but also to bring out who, If
| any one. assisted them.
| Other expressions Of horror at discover
| ing they had been living near explosives
/ came from members Of the family cf -.
Jones. a farmer near indianapolis. For a
| IN bic
1911. J. J. Mcnamara. secretary-treasurer
of the International Association Of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, on the pre-
text that he was storing old records kept in
Jones's barn a piano box filed with dyna-
mite. from which McMansal replenished his
supply when going on dynamiting eXpodi-
| tions.
! The piano box still had twenty-five pounds
Of dynamite I'm it when Jones, digging on
| his farm. was appriscd OF the fact by de-
tectives who visited the place the day John
j. was arrested. II was learned that these
witnesses Willingly told Of the representa-
tions under which they rented their places
and what persons paid them money
Employees Of Mcnamara including Miss
! Katherine Gallagher and Louise Meyers,
stenographers, armed with records dating
/ back 10 1905. were before the Investigators
Their presence was in connection with the
/ tracing Of the movements of men whose
Identities have not yet been made public.
So far as the ironworkers' association
is coHcerned. no opposition hereafter will
| be made against the removal of books and
| papers taken from their headquarters from
one jurisdiction TO another. This was an
nounced to-day. when an attorney for tire
! ironworkers withdrew an appeal TO the
| Indiana Supreme Court from an order OF
! the County Court to turn the records over
to the federal authorities. Although action
on the motion to dismiss the appeal will not
be taken until after January ., II is under
stood the records. including books and cor
rcspondencc Of John j. Mcnamara, may
| now be carried between federal or county
| Jurisdictions in any part Of the country
without opposition.