The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-24
400 POUNDS DYNAMITE.
Said to Have Been Uncovered at TIT.
fin, Ohio.

dL uuSh toudy, dCCoIulnS " tHS poIlSC
here tonight by detectives who de
parted secretly this morning after
having arrested John ]. Mcnamara.
secretary and, treasurer of the Inter
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers in the head
quarters here last night
While the executive board of the
iron workers was in session preparing
statement in which the action OF
the police in hurrying Mcnamara out
CT the state was denounced, Burns
accompanied by one assistant went tf
the home OF James McManigal father
Of Orgie McMaHigal, one of the me,
under arrest In Titan, broke into q
sed and found the box in which
enough dynamite was stored to shake
the city from end to end.
Two Titan policemen were placed
near the shed to guard the explosives.
No arres,s were made there today &C.
cording to Walter Drew attorney foI
the National Erectors' association
Burns will return to Indianapolis
early tomorrow. taE9
The dynamite fuse, alarm clock an!
electrical apparatus found in the
basement of the building in which the
offices of the union are located nr.
was removed by an expert empios %
by the police department and storni
outside OF the city limits.
The Marion county grand jury Will
be called into session tomorrow MON
ing to investigate dynamiting on:
ragescommitted here and try to fix
the responsibility for placing hign ex
plosiyes in the basement of the Ameri
can Central Life Building was the
announcement of Prosecutor Bigger
tonight.
He notified Supt. of Police Hyland
to appear before the grand Jury and
bring the books and records taken
from the officers of the iron workers
union. An effort was made by laboi
leaders to obtain these books froI
he police but Supt. Hyland refused
, to give them up.
Declaring that the police had "kld
mapped" Mcnamara and that the find
ing of dynamite in storage depart
ment belonging to the office OF tIe
mine workers was not proof Of Nc
Namara's guilt because detectives
have often created" evidence against
labor unions, Frank NJ. Ryan, presi
dent of the iron workers tonight H.
sued statement on behalf of himself
, and the executive board
The investigation which was eX.
pected to show according to the po
lice and Walter Drew, attorney for
the National Erectors' Association
that indianapolis for two years has
been headquarters Of conspiracy
that has resulted in eighty destructive
explosions of dynamite causing Z
property loss of $2,000.0OO or mort
continued today am tonight after he
sensational arrest OF Mcnamara.
The Erectors association it is aid
represented in its membership 80 per
cent of the structural steel and iron
contractors of the United States. OF
fcials allege explosions of dynamite
| under bridges, viaducts and buildings
from Springfield, Mass, to the~PacI
Nc coast.
1t was after the more serious OF
the explosions that which wrecked the
Los Angeles Times building costing
the lives Of 2l persons that the Ia
dictments were returned by a gran
jury on which were arrested ]. j. Nc
Namara, in Detroit, ]. B. Bryce, al
legged to be James Mcnamara, brother
/ OF J. ]. Mcnamara and Artie E. Nc
Managil. Rumors were made tonight
that many arrests here were impend
ing but the police refused to discuss
them.
Daybreak this morning found :.e
bridge and iron workers officials and
their counsel in conference with vii
liam J. Burns, the local police and
/ Attorney Drew as to whether a search
warrant held by Burns vested in him
power to seize the boks OF the asso
citation.
Supt. of Police Hyland finally de
| termlned to remove the books to pc
lice headquarters where 1t was sail
transcript would be made OF re
ceipts and expenditures made by ali
| thorty of Secretary Mcnamara in the
4 last two years.
| Mr.. Drew said the entries would
/ be offered as evidence when the ac.
cused were brought to trail at Los
1 Angeles. The books were taken fro.n
safe in the association office after
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