The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-15
100 DYNAMITE
CRIMES FOUND
CONSPIRACY AGAINST BUILDERS
ON GIGANTIC SCALE.
McNAMARAs WERE NOT ALONE

The Federal Grand Jury at Indianapo-
lis Is Furnished With a List of Elk
plosive outrages Extending Over
Seventeen States.
Indianapolis, Ind, Dec 14.-After
weeks of investigating by the govern
ments agents in many os,'t'- of the
country where explosions have taken
place, the federal grand jury was
ready to begin here today it's inquiry
into an alleged nationwide conspiracy
whereby more than 100 structures
were blown up and in which dynamite,
nitroglycerine and other explosives
We're carried into at least seventeen
states.
A list of 100 explosions in struc-
lures erected by firms employing non
union workmen, as furnished to the
government by the National Erectors'
association, was prepared for the
grand jury.
The list, beginning with wrecking of
structural works in Massachusetts
and Connecticut in the summer of
1905, cites the damage done up until
Oct. 16, 1911, and points out, as indi-
eating participation by others than
John j., and James B. Mcnamara and
Ortie McManigal, that crimes of this
nature were perpetrated in seventeen
states.
The explosions began prior to the
employment by the McNamaras of
McManigal who, according to his con.
fession, blew his first building in De-
troit in June, 1907, with twenty
sticks of dynamite" and they extend
into the present year several months
after the arrest of the McNamaras.
There were two explosions in 1905
eight in 1906, six in 1907, twenty-six in
1908, twenty in 1909, twenty-five in
1910 and thirteen in 1911. They oc'
CURED in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mich
igan, Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut
Maryland, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa.
Nebraska, Utah, Washington and Cal
ifornia.
Twenty In Ohio.
Ohio, with twenty heads the list
Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York and
Missouri come next. Mcnamara eX
plosions took place at Mount Vernon
N. Y, and at Cleveland The last at
tempted explosion is recorded in the
list as having taken place on Oct. 16
this year, near Santa Barbara, Cal, al
a bridge erected three years ago. by
Mantle was found near the bridge just
before the special train bearing Presi
dent Taft passed over it, After the eX
plosions of the year just proceeding
the National Erectors association il
May 1906 was formed by contractor!
who, in pursuance of plan to main
tain an open shop" employed de
tectives to investigate the dynamiting
The announcement that w. E. Grit
fin, chief Of police at Kansas City, Mo
would arrive here late today prepared
to testify concerning various explo
sions in Kansas City, drew attention
to the important part which the con
fession of McManigal Is to play in thu
probe. Details of the blowing up o
the six structures in Kansas City OF
Dec. "a, 1908, April IA, 1908, April %
1909, June &c, 1909, Aug. 49,, 1910, an,
Dec. 80, 19l0-which resulted in tn
partial wrecking OF viaducts, building
} and derricks under construction b
J firms employing non-union men, ar
: in the hands of the government inves
, tigators. Bearing on these McManiga
in his confession quoted at least on
Of the dates, saying:
McNamarz Paid Him.
ION Aug. %, pulled or the Nj