The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-26
GIG vito TASK
FOR GRAND JURY
Record of Eighty-Scven Dyna-
mite Outrages to Be
Investigated.
WORK BEGAN IN 1905
Authorities Amazed That Cam
paign of Destruction Could
Continue So Long.

| Indianapolis. December a5-some
ioea OF the stupondous work that Is
ahead of the Federal grand jury In
this city may be obtained from the
record Of dynamiting casee now In the
hands OF the United Suites authorities
This record shows that the aIcNa
! maras entered upon their dynamiting
! career In the lhtter part of 1905, and
that they incrcused their activity In
1905. and continued it until they were
overhauled by the Burns detective
agency, Since that time there has been
no dynamiting.
The list of cases which the grand
jury Is investigating nnd which IRE
believed to have been planned and car-
ried out under John j. McNamara's d.
rection includes total of eighty -Heven,
and there are many others for which
he Ia believed to be responsible but
which cannot be traced directly to him.
In every case there was u reason why
organized labor should have a ErudEe
against the sufferer from the dynamtt-
ing plot Usually It wds a cuso of tho
open shop. the purchase of material
made In such shop or the employ
ment Of men who were not members of
union
The dynamitinB campaign opened al
Cleveland late In 1905, and though /,
spread out broadly in the following
year that city appears TO have been u
faVorite Of the conspirators, for their
work OF destruction. for they returned
to 1t repeatedly.
Looking over the record of dynamit.
ing. the Federal authorities are sur
prised that 1t could have continued SO
long without detection of the GRIM
inals and apparently without any W
Sanized efforts on the part OF the SUIT
ierers to run them down. This Is ali
che more strange when 1t is seen that
certain firms and certain railroads
were sufferers time and again. Among
these were the American Steel and
Wire Company. the American Bridge
Company. the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany. the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company, the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company,
the Pittsburgh Construction Gonna ny
and a. NJ. Blodgett 6 Co.
In tho earlier outrages the men en-
gagged in them must have taken very
serious risks to themselves, not on ~
from the explosions. but also from
their Immediate presence at the scene
OF the explosions. for II appears that
IT was not till 1910 that the use of the
clock arrangement for setting off the
dynamite and enabling the conspirator
TO be far away when the explosion &C.
CURED was introduced.
Nearly all the explosions occurred
in cities where police regulation Is
supposed to be adequate.
The following list shows the com
plete record Of dynamiting outrag es
attributed to the Iron workers. organ
ization. end with most OF which James
B. Mcnamara was connected. under the
direction of hts brother John:
September rs. 19o5-Dynamite found
on derrick used in construction of q
Nickel Plate viaduct at Cleveland.
Time lock also found.
March IL. 19o6--Hotel Frankfort,
Cleveland. dynamited and wrecked, but
guests escaped. Several workmen for
a bridge construction company were
boarding at the hotel
April E. 1s06-Three sticks of dyna-
mite found in fireboX OF a hoistlng
engine used in construction of Arcade
building at Cleveland A short time
later an attempt was made to wreck
derrick used in constructing a bridge