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GRAND JURYSEEKS
DYNAM|TEPR00FS
Books Of the Union Are Sent
to Courthouse.
MORE ARRESTS LOOKED FOR
Investigation Continues to Expose Per.
sons and Methods Responsible For
Explosions In Various Parts of the
Country.


Country.
Indianapolis, Ind, April 25.-All the
members of the executive board OF the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers were
summoned before the grand jury. The
president of the organization, Frank
M. Ryan, was ordered to produce the
books and other records of the aSso-
citation, and he sent nearly a CARLOAD
to the court house.
Among the books taken by the po-
lice were passbooks for five years Of
]. G. Mcnamara, the secretary treas
urer, and it is said that these show
sums paid out mysteriously when TAX
en- in connection with the check stubs
showing for what and to whom the
amounts were paid.
The police would not admit, how
ever, that the check stubs give them
any clew to McNamara's connection
with the dynamiting for which he is
under arrest and now on his way to
California.
w. ]. Ford, assistant district attor-
ney of California, said that he expect
ed to finish in Indianapolis soon and
return to California. Mechanical, Ford
said, was not connected with the
Times explosion. Schmidt and Bryce.
the alias used by J. w. Mcnamara,
he said had charge.
Had Trouble With Unions.
<"I was in the Times building" said
Ford, thirty minutes before it hap
pened." Ford continued: cat the time
of the explosion there was difficulty
with the Typographical union and the
structural iron workers in the city
were on strike. The Typographical
union difficulty, however, was one of
long standing, and just at that time
was in better condition than ever be-
fore. The difficulty with the iron
workers was due to the attitude of the
Times toward their fight, the Times
being partisan and unfriendly to the
iron workers"
Fear by ]. ]. Mcnamara that stem
ographsr formerly employed by him
and with whom he had quarreled,
might talk about his affairs to others,
Is thought to have had something to
do with Mcnamara paying $500 to the
stenographer on March 4, 1910.
@. w. Appleman, attorney for the
girl who obtained the $500 settlement,
says that when she employed him and
stated her case to him, she said: "Tell
Mcnamara he will have to settle with
me. l know things about him and the
iron workers organization. 1t will be
best for him to settle
Mr.. Appleman said he went to Nc
Namara, discussed with him his diff
culties with the girl and presented
her claim. which was OF legal ma
ture.
Mr.. Appleman asserted that McNa-
mara said the girls cain against him
was founded on a falsehood, but that
in spite of this he would pay her the
$500 asked. Il went with her to his
Office and he paid the money to me
for her." Mr.. Appleman said.
Investigation declared to be directed
toward exposing persons and methods
responsible for eighty explosions and
great property loss in various parts OF
the country during the last two years,
continued at Tiffin, Ohio, as we'll as in
indianapolis.
More Arrests Looked For.
At Tifin Detective William ]. Burns
and J. A. G. Badorf, assistant counsel
for the National Erectors' association,
followed details connected with their
discovery there of 400 pounds of dyna-
mite in shed.
Following the arrest of ]. ]. Nc
Namara in indianapolis and the arrest
Of j. J. Bryce" alleged to be J. B.
Mcnamara, and Ortie E. McManigal,
at Detroit, all of whom are being TAX
en- to Los Angeles to answer indict-
ments charging them with completely
in the Los Angeles Times building ex-
plosion, there continued to be rumors
of further arrests, but the police and
others concerned declined to comment
on than.