Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
Secretary Intended to Put Six or
Eight Men About Country.
PART OF ORTrE's CONFESSION
Information Revealed in Federal
Grand Jury Investigation.
MAKE INQUIRY INTO BIG FUND
Relation of Money TO Fees Given
McNanigaI for work In blowing
Up "scsb" Labor struc-
lures Traced.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Dec. 16.-That
the .dynamiting OF the new court house
in Omaha on March "A. 1911 and OK
2losIon at the home office of the Caid-
well & Drake company Ia Columbus, Ind,
at the same time. was the beginning OF
plan by John ], Mcnamara to puzzle
the National Erectors association by
series OF simultaneous explosions tho
country over, was made known here
today.
This information had been given by
Ortie Il. McAIanlgal In his confession.
II was revealed today by the government
officials conducting the dynamite con-
spiracy before the federal grand jury
here.
The purpose Of Mcnamara, according
to McManlgai, was TO employ more men
to have explosions occur on the same
day or within the same hour at cities
widely separated.
j. A. G. Badorf, a detective employed
by the National Erectors association,
who worked on this phase OF the case
and who secured scores OF photographs
OF wrecked structures, was before the
grand jury for several hours.
s'wnI Make Them sit Up"
In connection with the Omaha and
Columbus Jobs Mcnamara is charged by
MECHANICAL with having said:
II want them TO 20 off about the same
time 80 they with wonder how the fellow
was III Omaha ana Columbus the same
night. What I am going TO do Is to
get about six or eight good fellows and
I am going to station them around the
country and l am going to have OK
plosIons come Oft at one time. one right
after the other. l will make them sit
up and take notice"
II has been shown that in the Omaha
Columbus incident on March "a, 1911, the
explosions were done by McManigal and
]. b. Mcnamara. the time being ar
ranged by kilograms sent in code to j.
j. Mcnamara In Indianapolis.
Inquire Into Mtg Fund.
| The 81, 900 paid monthly 10 John JN Nc
Namara as secretary-treasurer OF the
international Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers for organizing
purposes" aud for which he was not
required to give any accounting. was in
quired into today. The relation OF the
fund to Gees given critic McManigal. the
confessed dynamiter, for his work In
blowing up structures erected by nom
union workmen, also was traced.
From an employe Of livery concern at
Muncie. Ind. the investigators learned OF
NcManigars movement OF nitroglycerin
from Albany, Ind, to his storehouse at
Muncio. MECHANICAL, under the name OF
J. w. MeGraw. bought 100 quarts of the
/ explosive near Albany.
It was delivered to him in a wagon
outside the city. driven by him to an
empty house at Muncle and there packed
in sawdust lie confessed he afterwards
plosions at Peoria, III,
The similarity OF some OF the sawdust
found at Peoria to that found at Muncie
and In the wagon led to the linking up
OF the evidence by detectives and the
transactions were gone over to ascertain
what money had been paid for expenses.
plan More Prosecutions.
Reports have reached Indianapolis of
the intention Of the state authorities TO
start prosecutions for explosions which
| nave occurred in their localities and ask
ing whether evidence now in the hands
OF the government might be available
Tor county grand jury investigations.
\, 1T is the duty OF different jurisdlc-
lions 10 assist each other In prosecuting
offenders" said Assistant District At
torney Clarence Nichols. County prose-
cutors in any state will not have any
difficulty In obtaining from the federal
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