The evening times., 1911-04-24
DYNAMITE PLOT
TH|CKENS ABOUT
INDIANAPOLIS
Dynamite and Nitro -Glycerin
Stored in Places Controlled
By Accused
FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS
STORED IN T|FF|M, OHIO
Secretary.T Treasurer of International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers Under Arrest CHARGED
With Dynamite Crimes.

1HulanapOll6,' lnQ., April 24.-LeO
NJ. Rappaport, counsel for the Inter-
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Worksre, today Sc
cured a writ of replevin in a justice
OF the peace court for the books that
were seized by the police Saturday
night, in the offices of the associa-
ton. A constable appeared at the
grand jury room with the writ which
has been issued against County
Prosecutor Baker and Superintendent
OF Police Hyland. but the prosecutor
told the officer If he. attempted to
| serve the writ he would be in con-
tempt of court. The constable left
the building.
That the grand jury has taken cog
nizance Of the intimations contained
in the statements attributed to the Of
ficials Of the iron workers associa-
tion, that the organization is the VIC
tim of q conspiracy by the agents of
the three employees who had plant
ed" the dynamite to "create" evidence
was the statement Of Prosecutor
! Baker.
The investigation directed toward
exposing the persons and methods
responsible for eighty explosions and
great property loss in various parts
of the country during the last two
years continued today. At Titan,
Ohio, Detective William j. Burns and
j. A. Baldorf, assistant counsel for
the National Erectors' association,
were following certain details con-
nected with their discovery there last
night of 400 pounds Of dynamite
planted" in a shed.
Following the arrest of ]. ]. Nc
Namara, secretary-treasurer of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, here
and the arrest of j. B. Bryce, alleged
to be j. B. Mcnamara, and Ortie E.
McNanigaks of Detroit, all of whom
are being taken to Los Angeles to
answer indictments charging them
with completely in the Los Angeles
Times building explosion, in which
twenty-one lives were lost, there con-
tinued to be rumors today Of further
arrests in the matter, but the police
and others concerned declined to
comment of them.
Investigation that was expected to
show, according to the police and
Walter Drew, attorney for the Ma
tional Erectors' association, that In
dian apolis for two years has been the
headquarters of conspiracy that has
resulted in eighty destructive explos-
ions of dynamite, causing property
loss of $2,000.000 or more, continued
Sunday and last night. after the SEN
sational arrest of Mcnamara.
Ten assistants of Detective William
]. Burns, employed by the National
Erectors' association, worked with the
local police and detective department.
The erectors' association, 1t is stat
ed, represents in its membership
eighty per cent Of the structural steel
and iron contractors of the United
States. Against them, in their efforts
to operate "open Shops" It is alleged,
explosions Of dynamite under bridges,
viaducts and buildings, from Spring
field, Mass, to the Pacific coast, have
been directed.
1t was after the most serious of the
explosions, that which wrecked the
Los Angeles Times building. costing
the lives Of twenty-one persons, that
the indictments we're returned by a
grand jury in Los Angeles upon which
were arrested here, j. ]. Mcnamara
and in Detroit. ]. B. Bryce. alleged
alleged to be James Mcnamara,
brother of John J. Mcnamara and Or
tie G. NcKanigle.
Rumors were many last night that
more arrests here were impending
but the police refused to discuss them.
| President Ryan and other officials
of the bridge and structural iron
! workers consulted in their headquart-
ers all day.
The officials Of the association and
their counsel engaged in violent con-
troversy with Detective William ].
Burns and his operatives, the local
police and Attorney Drew for the erec-
tors association. as to whether or not
a search warrant held by Burns vest
ed in him power to seize the books of
the association. Superintendent of
police Hyland finally determined to
remove the books to police quarters
where, 1t was stated a transcript
would be made of receipts and ex-
penditures made by authority of Sec
retary Mcnamara during the last two
years. Mr.. Drew said these entries
would be offered az evidence when the
accused we're brought to trial at Los
Angeles.
The books were taken from safe
in the Offices of the association after
an expert had cut the locks. Presi-