New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-26
UNION B0OKKEEPER TALKS
Thinks Brother and McManigal
Led McNamara Astray.
lBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

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| Indiana polls. April ej-John II. Cook. for
several years n bookkeeper I'm the office AT
the headquarters OF the iron workers union,
to-day told what he knew about John >.
Mcnamara and his alleged connection with
the dynamiting plots, on the charge OF
completely in which he is now on his way
to California under arrest. He said in ef-
feet that Secretary Mcnamara supplied his
brother and others with money and was
drawn into the plots by the desperate
straits Of the union. Mr.. Cook said:
II firmly believe j. j. Mcnamara was led
into this thing by his brother, j. W. Nc
Namara. The fact is. as | see 1t, that AFTER
fight extending over several years the
National Erectors' Association had the
union whipped. The employers had won
| their fight, although J. j. Mcnamara had
nut forth every effort to win for the union
II think possibly J. w. Mcnamara may
have talked ]. j. Mcnamara into this
scheme for / cannot conceive, from what !
know of the man. that John J. Mcnamara
would concoct such thing himself. Alter
the first explosion or two ] imagine they
may have been In so deeply that j. }. Nc
Namara could not back out, and he might
have been induced TO stick to 1t. or course
this is all based on the mere theory that
he may have been mlslcd.
II know j. W. Mcnamara came here at
times and met j. J. Mcnamara al the Of
fee at night | am sure that j. j. Nc
Namara did not place the dynamite in the
basement OF the American Central Lie
Building where 1t was found the other day,
but ! believe he knew II was there. | re-
moved from the Office to the basement room
4 large quantity of old books, papers and
letters, but I never was in the basement
room afterward and never saw dynamite
| there.
! zone thing is true, and that is that Nc
Namsra's accounts will DC found TO be alb
solutely straight. Every entry on the books.
every check check stub. voucher. letter
and everything else in the bookkeeping
system will be found to be plain and clear.
Some Of the entries may look 'phoney'. but
| want to say If any such are found they
were all o. I'd by Mcnamara before they
were made.
| Mcnamara made many trips out of the
city. Whenever these trips were made on
known business for the organization lie re-
turned an expense account, but he always
paid his own expenses on other trips"
cook said he was confident that J. }.
! Mcnamara had supplied the money to his
brother and McManigal for expenses on
their alleged dynamiting trips.
| WAS il his own money or was it money
| Of the organization" he was asked.
1T was organization money" he said.
did other officers Of the associa ton
know of it,"
How could they help but know" he
replied
| Cook was emphatic in hts statement that
| since the dynamite found hidden in
| the basement OF the American Central Life
| Building he knew what it was there for.
! Il think | know what IL was to be used
| for" he said; "in fact, / know what IL was
| there for"
| All he would say on this subject was that
! Mcnamara was arrested little too soon
| for the dynamite 10 be used for the pur-
pose for which II had been intended. He
| intimated that another week would have
| brought a different result. He said too
that In his opinion, something was to
happen next September" hut he declined TO
| tell what IL was.
| Cook said Mcnamara was a liberal. good
hearted fellow, and that nearly everybody