The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-05-05


supplied by Ortie Mechanical, District
Attorney Fredericks began the prepar-
alton Of the case against John ]. and
James B. Mcnamara for dynamiting
the Los Angeles Times. and against
MECHANICAL for the explosion that par
TALLY destroyed the Llewellyn Iron
Works.
Two stenographers segregated the
details relating to each Job. These
were put down in chronological order
and neatly typewriter. Five copies
were made, four for actual use and the
fifth to be stored away In a safety de-
post vault. It required three hours
for MECHANICAL to relate the facts
which he alleged constituted the gi
gantic conspiracy which DESTROYED
100000 worth Of property and killed
more than a score of men.
James B. Did It.
It. was James B. Mcnamara alone
who piled the dynamite under the Los
Angeles Times building, according to
McManigal David Captain and M
Schmidt, although accomplices. were
in San Francisco when the bomb ex
ploded, he said.
John J. Planned Job.
John ]. Mcnamara conceived the
scheme. planned the details and di
|rected his brother to carry them out
At O'Clock on the night Of September
80, according to McManigal's comics
sion, Jim McNamara went into Ink al
ley in the rear Of the Times building
and planted the dynamite with its
alarm clock attachment. He then
caught the lark" train for San Fran
cisco.
Hence he was four hours out OF
town when the explosion occurred.
McManigal freely gave the details
of long list of crimes in which he
alone figured as the "wrecking crew.
In all of these John j. Mcnamara was
the guiding spirit and paymaster, he
said. For every job he undertook Nc
Manigal confessed he was paid $2O(
in advance, retainer fee, and if he was
successful he was paid from $500 to
1000. John J. Mcnamara decided
upon his campaign of destruction. Nc
Manigal said, three years ago.
Among the more important dyna
mitings confessed to by Mechanical
according to District Attorney Fred
ericks, are the following:
October IL, 1906, engine of P. v.
Co. Railroad, dynamited at Clarion
Pa.
October 80, 1906, Baltimore & Ohio
bridge at Youngstown, O., dynamited
December 81, 1907, Palmer road
bridge of Cleveland Short Line Rail
road in Lucius county. Ohio, dyna
mited.
April /. 1908, attempt to dynamite
Blackwell island bridge being erected
by the Pennsylvania Steel Company
for the city of New York.
August 6, 1908, Illinois Central rail
way bridge over the Calumet river
dynamited.
September Is. 1908, attempt made tt
dynamite hosting engine of the Chi
cago Junction Railroad. Jerry Lynch
Waterman, was killed.
December 8, 1909, house occupied BY
non-union men of the American Steel
Sheet & Tin Plate Company, at Struth
ers, O.. dynamited; several persons in
jured.
October /, 1910, Los Angeles Times
building wrecked and twenty-one per
sons killed; bombs found at homes OF
Otis and Zeehandelaar.
October 5. 1910, annex to the West
End Hotel. Kansas City. Mo-, dyna
mited while under construction.
October 10, 1910. Charles X. Henry's
residence. Portland, Or, dynamited.
December Is, 1910, Llewellyn Iron
Company's plant, Los Angeles, dyna
mited.
February "a, 1911. explosion at the
Trouuois Iron Works, in South Chi
Icago.
March /. 1911, Western Fuel Com
|pany's plant. Milwaukee, dynanited.
March Is. 1911. coal hosting plant
at Milwaukee, being erected by the
|Hyle & Patterson Construction Com.
pany Of Pittsburg. dynamited.
April I, 1911, blast wrecked tower
on municipal building at Springfield
Mass.