Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-08

Indianapolis tomorrow, by way OF Cleve-
land and we Will go over to Rochester.
Pa. I want to take some soup" along
and leave It OF at Cleveland I got q
suit case for S.. We went over to Roch-
ester, Pa, that afternoon and went cut
had the soup stored in an old build
ing or cooper shop. We took out twelve
quarts of nitroglycerin and put 1t IN the
suit case, leaving fifty-eight quarts there.
I'VE got into Cleveland about or ~
O'Clock that evening. The job was at
Akron. Ohio. and was to be pulled on
the 9Th of Jaly morning, but he had no
fuse. 1 returned to Chicago tnat nign'
and sent down to - by special DEW
cry that night coil of fuse. went from
there 10 Pittsburgh and from there went
east pulled Off the Greenviile N. D.,
and McKees Rocks, Pa. jobs; The NC
KEGS Rocks job was, / think. on July
August o i pulled OF the McClintic-
Marshall job at Kansas City. l did not
see j. ]. Mcnamara, although he was
in town at that time. Referring to the
nitroglycerin I purchased at Portland, l
took sixty quarts to Indianapolis, and
forty quarts were stolen from me-
Mcnamara Was Present.
81. j. Mcnamara was present both
times when I brought nitroglycerin.
From Kansas City I went to Peoria. III.
and went over to the iron that was stored
in The railroad yards. This iron was
steel Orders from the McClintic- Marshall
Company. I afterward blew these up
September 4. 1910 At that time l saw
the Lucas Building and Erecting Com
pany job in East Peoria
II j. Mcnamara returned to Indian
apolis August % or 30. 1910 at which
time he paid me for doing the Kansas
City job. ]. ]. Mcnamara told me at
that time that l would have to get the
stuff ready and go over to Peoria l
made two trips to Peoria to carry the
stuff over and set the clocks Sunday
the work was to be done. / went to
Chicago and got a card or a telegram
day or two later from ]. ]. Mcnamara.
telling me to call him up when l ar
rived. This was signed George Clark.
came to Indianapolis, and called up J. J.
Mcnamara as his telegram had asked me.
Il had a talk with J. ]. Mcnamara
and he was preparing, to go to the
about the bad luck ! had had on the
Peoria and Kansas City jobs. and he
gave me hell about not getting clocks
back that did not so off. When j. j.
Mcnamara left Indianapolis for Roches-
ter l accompanied him as far as Cleve-
land and We took with us twenty quarts
of nitroglycerin.
Tells of Other Jobs.
II returned to Indianapolis about ten
days later, OF about the end of the con-
vention at Rochester. / talked with ]. ].
Mcnamara about a letter telling hun
that the Heyl and Patterson and Boston
Bridge Company were at work there. that
is, in Boston. The Phoenix Bridge Com
pany was putting in new union depot
and the Boston Bridge Company was put
ting in a bridge there, and all the steel
elevations We're set / saw the letter.
said: You had better send a man over
there and see what can be done for the
local people
Il placed the charge under a derrick car
and the other under street Orders that
ran across the street / went from In
dianapolis TO Boston, and went from there
to Springfield and looked over the job
there. / went from there to Scranton,
Pa, and there looked over gas holder
that ]. j. Mcnamara had told me to look
over. and from there / went to Buffalo
and down to Pittsburg. j. j. Mcnamara
gave me 500 and expenses for the Wor-
cester, Mass, job
Eighty pounds of dynamite were used
in the Iroquois Steel Company explosion.
When / went to indianapolis, J. ]. Nc
Namara paid me 500 in cash, as that was
all the cash he had in the Office. / saw
him pay j. b. Mcnamara for that job. A
little later on he told me to go up to Mil
waukee and look over that job. On my
me, and leave it in Chicago. and after
going 10 Milwaukee, if it was so / could
get to it, was to come back to Chicago
and get the nitroglyeerin and take 1t to
Milwaukee and shoot the job.
Paid $500 for Job.
There were four quarts of nitro
glycerin taken by me to Milwaukee. and
six quarts already there. / left four
quarts at Milwaukee, shot of four quarts
and brought back two quarts Took that
out and stored 1t at the Jones barn.
near Indianapolis. ]. j. Mcnamara paid
me S2fO and expenses for this job, at
his office in Indianapolis.
'FThe next job was the Springfield,
Mass, job. J. J. Mcnamara told me to
go to Boston. l placed the shot in the
tower, where il went off about o'clock
in the morning.
Il took the train for Utica, n. Y.
When | arrived in Utica, l looked around
the Savage Arms Company, looking at
guns. From there l went on far as
more clocks at a jewelry auction sale.
l had orders from ]. j. Mcnamara to go
10 Detroit and look at the Detroit bridge
aud steel works, the Whitehead kaies
Company and the Il. Il. Company. l
found the places. looked them UP and re-
turned to indianapolis. j. J. Mcnamara
paid me $50 ano expenses for the job
up 10 the Cleveland JOB, - had paid
me, but after that j. ]. took the matter
in hand himself all the way through.