The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-04-26
BURNS SAYS He
HAS EVIDENCE
TO CONVICT
Detective Surrendered and Is
Released on Bail
CAN'T FIND STENOGRAPHER
Young Woman Believed to Have Civ
en- Tips" That Resulted in
Arrests

indianapolis, Ind, April &c The
game of hide and seek with q deputy
sheriff as the seeker and Frank NJ.
Ryan, president of the international
Association OF Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, and Detective w. j..
Burns as the sought, came to partial
end late this evening when Deputy
Sheriff Sloan served a subpoena on
Burns to appear before the grand jury
this morning at 8 o'clock.
Earlier in the day Detective Burns
gave further disclosures at to how
he came to suspect Ortie McMangle
and the Mcnamara brothers of the
Los Angeles outrages. He described
in detail the clock contrivance used
in setting off the explosives and de-
clared that his evidence against the
prisoners was of the kind to obtain
convictions.
Three attorneys, acting for the pros
ecution, we're arraigned today on the
kidnapping charge. and they spent two
hours in Jail because of delay in OBJ
tanning bonds for them They were
Walter Drew and J. A. G. Badorf of
New York, counsel and assistant coun-
sci for the National Erectors' Associa-
ton and w. Joseph Ford, District At
torney of Los Angeles
AS they could not furnish bail i'm
medlately they were committed to Jail
to await the action of the Marion Co.
grand jury.
Later the three were released
from Jail on bonds signed by surety
company In each case the bond was
in the sum of 100000.
Frank Fox a chauffeur, charged
with having assisted in the alleged
kidnapping of Mcnamara. in that he
drove the automobile in which Nc
Namara was taken from this city last
Saturday, was released under $4,000
bond to appear before the grand jury.
The whereabouts of Miss Dye, who
was the private secretary of John j..
Mcnamara, is believed to have an i'm
portant bearing on the chain of evil
dence the detectives are seeking to
weave about Mcnamara.
While in indianapolis in March last
year, Miss Dye told Mr.. Appleman, so
he asserts, that she had important in.
formation about Mcnamara, and
about transactions of the iron workers
that they would not wish to be known.
According to information given by
Mcnamara to Mr.. Appleman after the
$500 settlement, Mcnamara traced
Miss Dye from Indianapolis to Cincin-
natl Some of Miss Dyes former ac-
quaintances have heard that she went
TO Pittsburg later. Her home is said
to be at Cleveland, Ohio.
In the opinion of the persons who
have been following the details of the
dynamiting case, the Los Angeles au-
thorities and Detective Burns know
the value of Miss Dyes information,
and it is possible they know where
she is. 1t will not surprise some per-
sons if it is learned later that much
of the important Developments of the
last few days were due to tips" from
Miss Dye.
Burns says his case against the men
arrested is complete and he will con-
Wet all. He answered the charge that
he planted the dynamite himself as
manufactured evidence" with laugh
ing denial
"Wait and see," he said
Burns talked freely of the clew
round at Peoria, saying:
The finding of the uneXploded
charge of nitroglycerine enlightened
us as to the methods of the dynami-
tiers. The nitroglycerine had a clock
and battery attached for the purpose
of bringing about the explosion. 1t
was No. dry battery, with an
ordinary 1iifty-cent alarm clock. 1t
was attached to board with a length
of copper The piece of copper wire
was smoldered to the key of the clock
in a peculiar way
"The clock was so set that at the
time the alarm went Off it would car
ry with it the piece of copper wire. On
reaching the board it would come in
contact with a second piece of copper
wire and this would form circuit
Sparks would be generated and the
charge of nitroglycerine would be
exploded
do you not see what convincing
proof it is when | tell you that this
brand OF nitroglycerine, this very
make of alarm clock, this precise Kind
of copper wire, this combined arrange
ment of board and wire and clock is
precisely the same as were used in
the destruction of the Los angeles
Times building, in the attempted des-
truction of the Zeehandelaar and Har-
rison Gray Otis houses, and in other
Outrages?
THE public can form no idea of the
immense amount of evidence gathered
against these men by my agents, who
slept for scores of days and nights at
the same hotels with them followed
them from place to place, relieving
one another of course, so as not to
be recognized, visiting dynamite and
nitroglycerine plants, clockmakers,
and wire factories, attending meetings
of labor unions, keeping watch on
supposedly doomed plants, factories
and mills, getting specimens OF hand
writing and comforting with the police
and with threatened manufacturers in
many cities
Success was won by working and
waiting. When we were convinced
tht we had not only the guilty men
but the right kind Of proof, and that
there was no chance for them to es-
cape. we made our coup Id
81 want to deny emphatically The
story that McMangle has been grant