The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-05
DETECTIVE BURNS
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the union. We asked him to take us
to his barn. It was now Z o'clock in
the evening and growing dark. Jones
brought a lantern and the barn key.
When we entered the barn we saw
| piano-box in one corner of it, beside
the grain-bins, opposite the stalls.
Jones', | said, whose box is that?
Whom does it belong to?'
He replied, TO j. J. Mcnamara.
"What is it doing here?
why he has it to keep books in
What sort of books?'
Records-the unions old books
Didn't you know there was dyna-
mite in it?'
MOI He grew so frightened that
he could scarcely answer
"The box was locked with a heavy
paddock We opened it with one Of the
keys that we had found on Jim Nc
Namara in Detroit In the sawdust
with which the box was packed were
forty pounds of dynamite and a small
tin of nitroglycerin. / asked Jones:
What sort of books did you think
they were going to pack in sawdust"
"He replied that John J. Mcnamara,
the secretary of his union, had hired
storage-room in the barn to keep old
books and records, paying a years
rent of sixty dollars in advance; that
Mcnamara had bought the piano-boX
at Baldwins music store in Indian
apolis, and the smaller box that went
in inside it; that Mcnamara had hired
him to buy the sawdust and haul it
and the boxes to the barn; and that
there his part in the affair had ended.
His wife corroborated him. Their
statements were taken down in due
form by the police.
Dynamite in the Unions Vault
"Our next step was TO make speed
back to the American Central Life
building, where the police officers
were still on guard at the doors of the
executive committees council-room.
There we found a safe which the
union officials declared themselves I'M
able to open. The superintendent of
police sent for an expert safe-cracker
When the safe had been drilled and
forced the books were taken from it
! for examination. And all this was
done by authority of search warrants,
| in a criminal case.
"Then we proceeded to the base.
ment, where the union had a sort of
vault that had been built by Secre-
tary McNamara's orders-for the
storage of more books apparently.
None of the keys in my possession
would open it. A police officer forced
the hasp of the paddock, and we found,
tanning, in all, about eighty pounds of
dynamite, each package wrapped in
newspapers, and a corner of each
torn open as if to make a hole for the
insertion of a fuse. We found also
fourteen of the little alarm-clocks
that were used to explode the bombs,
box of fulminating-caps, some yards
| of insulated wire, a number of the
metal strips that were to be attached
to the thumb-keys of the alarm clocks,
and some odds and ends of electrical
apparatus to be used in the manu-
facture of internal machines Also
we found a sort of valise of fiber
board specially made to fit exactly
one of Morehart's ten-quart tins of
nitroglycerin so that it might be car
ried handily.
1--WE found on the bureau of John J.
McNamara's bedroom, in his boarding
house, another of the little alarm,
clocks; and the police of Cincinnati
found tools, wire, battery-tester, and
lot of interesting correspondence in
Jim McNamara's house.
The Charge that Burns "PIanted"
Evidence.
They're saying I planted these
things before l found them. Well, if
| were the most fendish murderer that
ever drew the breath of life, l might
have planted dynamite in the piano
box in Jones barn. But how would
persuade John ]. Mcnamara to buy
the box and have it placed there for
me and have the sawdust hauled to
pack it with? What sort of records
does labor union pack in sawdust in
a country barn? How did get a lock
on the box to fit James Mcnamara s
keys? How did l arrange it so that
Meaningless keys would duplicate
them? How did get all the materials
of clockwork bombs placed in the la
Dor unions vault, built by its secre-