The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-15
BY Associated Press.

Indianapolis, Dec 14.-As direct
lead into the heart of the alleged dyna-
mite conspiracy, District Attorney
Charles w. Miller, while the federal
grand jury held it's initial hearing in
the case today, took up the questions
as to who furnished the money for
purchasing and paying the expenses of
carting about the country the expIo-
sives by which more than hundred
structures were blown up.
Mrs. Andrew ]. Hull who. as MISS
Edith Winebrenner, was bookkeeper
for the international Association of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers.
and who is familiar with the receipts
and disbursements, was cioseIy ques-
toned by Miller.
The identity of the few witnesses
called today was kept in strict secrecy.
and outsiders were not permitted in
the corridors near the grand jury
room
A detailed list Of one hundred ex-
plosions in structures erected by firms
employing non-union workmen, as fur
nished to the government by the Ma
tional Erectors' Association, was. pre-
pared for the grand jury.
BEGAN IN YEAR 1905.
The explosions began two years
prior to the employment by the Nc
Namaras of McManigal, who, accord
ing to his confession, blew his first
building in Detroit in June 1907, with
twenty sticks of dynamite. and they
extend into the present year, several
months after the arres of the Nc
Namaras.
After this there were explosions in
Mount Vernon, n. Y, and at Cleveland.
The last attempted explosion is re-
corded in the list as having taken place
on October 16 this year. near Santa
Eor a hTin0Q AFPffnn
three years ago. Dynamite was found
near the bridge just before the special
train bearing President Taft passed
over it.
was organized by contractors in 1905.
In pursuance of plan to MAINTAIN an
open shop" they employed detectives
to investigate the dynamiting. Nc
ManigaI is to play an important part
in the probe.
Here is a paragraph from the Nc
Manigal confession:
"On August % I pulled off the Nc
Clintic- Marshall job at Kansas City.
I did not see ]. J. Mcnamara, although
he was in town at the Sime. From
Kansas City / went to LNoria, His. j.
]. McNamara returned to Indianapolis
on August 80, at which time he paid
me for doing the Kansas City job. I
told him about the bad luck had had
on the Peoria and Kansas City jobs
and he gave me hell about not getting
back the clocks that did not go off,"
The clocks referred to by McMan-
igal were the alarm clocks used by
him to regulate the time for the igni-
tion of the fuses. Attached to the
winding key of each alarm was a
small sheet of copper so adjusted that
when the alarm was released the cop
per, in turning, Joined two electric
wires, which thus created current
and caused the spark that exploded
the dynamite or nitroglycerina.
MUCH CORRESPONDENCE.
Quantities of correspondence taken
from the Office formerly occupied by
John J. Mcnamara, the convicted sec
retary treasurer of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, were in the possession
of the district attorney and clerks and
employees of Mcnamara were ready TO
go into the grand jury room. This
Included Miss Nora Haley, of Chicago,
and Miss Mary Dye, of Pittsburg, who,
until three years ago, worked as con-
fidential secretary to Mr.. Mcnamara.
Indianapolis officials were to be early
witnesses to identify correspondence
taken recently from the iron workers
headquarters and also to narrate de-
tails of the arrest of John J. McNam-
ara here on April and of the finding
OF dynamite in the basement of his
office building on the same day.