Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-12-20
PROBE DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS.
Government Has List Of 100 Explo-
siOnS in Various Cities.


eral Investigation in many parts Of
the country where there have been
industrial" explosions. the govern
ment grand jury began here to-day
its inquiry into an alleged dynamite
conspiracy, with lends" in II stands.
A detailed list Of 100 explosions In
structures erected by firms employ
ing non-union workmen, as furnished
Erectors' Association, was prepared
for the grand jury.
Tho explosions began two years
prior to the employment by the Nc
Namaras or McManigal, who, ac-
cording to his confession, blew his
first building in Detroit in June,
1907, "with 20 sticks OF dynamite" !"
and they extend into the present year
several months after the arrest Of the
McNamaras.
The last attempted explosion is re-
corded in the list as having taken
place October l s this year near Santa
Barbara, Cal, at bridge erected
three years ago. Dynamite was found
near the bridge just before the spc-
cial train bearing President Taft
passed over it.
The National Ercctor's Associa-
ton was organized by contractors in
1906. In pursuance Of a plan to
maintain an "open shop" they en-
ployed detectives to Investigate the
dynamiting. McManigal Is to play an
important role in the probe
Here is paragraph from the Nc
Manigal confessions: ,
con August 23 pulled off the Nc
Clintic-Marshall job at Kansas City
| did not see J. J. Mcnamara, al
though he was In town at the time
From Kansas City l went to Peoria,
Ill. j. j. Mcnamara returned to In
dianapolis on August 20 or 80, 1910,
at which time he paid me for doing
the Kansas City job. told him
about the bad luck l had on the Pc
oria and Kansas City jobs and he
gave me h about not getting back
the clocks that did not go off,
The clocks referred to by McMani-
gal were the alarm clocks used by
him to regulate the time of the lgni-
tion Of the fuse. Attached to the
winding keys to each alarm was a
small sheet Of copper, so adjusted
that when the alarm was released the
copper, in turning, joined two elec-
trio wires, which thus created a cur
rent and caused the spark that ex-
ploded the dynamite or nitroglycer-
inc.
Quantities Of correspondence
taken from the office formerly occu-
pied by John J. Mcnamara, the con-
victed secretary-treasurer of the In
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers., were In
possession Of the district attorney
and former clerks and stenographers
Of Mcnamara were ready to go into
the grand jury room. These includ-
ed Miss Nora Haley, Of Chicago, and
Miss Mary Dye, Of Pittsburg, who un-
til three years ago worked as conf
Dental secretary to Mcnamara.
indianapolis officials were to be
early witnesses to identify cor
respondence taken recently from the
iron workers headquarters and also
to narrate statements on April 18th,
1911, made by Mcnamara, and Of the
finding Of dynamite in the basement
Of his office building on the same
day.
Probe in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Dec. 4.-Following a
trail which leads up and down the
coast with a twist east from San
Francisco. the Federal grand jury, in
session here, continued to-day its
probe into the habits and acquaint-
ances OF James B. Mcnamara, the
dynamiter Of the Los Angeles Times