Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-04-27
sTELLSSTORY
Of DYNAMITE PLOT
His Agents Followed the Men for
Months.
SAYS EVIDENCE is COMPLETE
He Calls It Most Gigantic and Cold
RIooded Conspiracy to Destroy
Life and Property Ever
Exposed.

Toledo, April 25.-For the first time
since the unearthing of what he
terms 1.-The most gigantic and cold
blooded conspiracy to destroy life and
property ever exposed in the United
States" William J. Burns, head Of the
W. J. Burns National Detective
Agency at Toledo told the inside
story of the arrest of John j. NC
Namara, James B. Mcnamara and
Ortie e. McManigal, Of the Structural
Iron Workers International union.
He tells how Intuition put bim on
the right trail and how his agents fol
lowed the suspected men for months,
slept in the same hotels with them
and listened to their private converse
lions and finally he describes how the
mass Of evidence was sorted out and
classified. and the hundreds of clews
were seen to point to a single group
Of men who appeared to have made
the spread Of death and destruction
in non-union works in all parts OF the
country, their main business in life.
In telling the story Burns said:
The Methods Used.
"You ask me to tell the secret Of
the methods by which and my men
solved the mystery Of this succession
Of astounding crimes after the Pinker'
ton agency had worked on 1t for
months without a glimmer Of sue.
cess. Well, can say that the solu'
ton Of the mystery was due In part to
an intuition.
when found after working a long
time on the Peoria, Los Angeles, Mil
waukee and American Bridge com.
pany dynamiting cases, 1t came to me
suddenly that all Of these crimes
were part of a labor union war
against certain firms in the structural
iron business,
Surprising Evidence.
The establishing Of the surprising
condolences in the kind Of nitro.
glycerine and dynamite used, the
similarity of the clocks, copper wire
and other apparatus furnished other
strong clues. Then scores Of my
men Swallowed the labor union sus-
poets day and night for months In
succession, never leaving them, never
firing, never losing hope, allowing
them, 1t is true, to go their way even
when they saw them with bags and
packages of dynamite in their posses
sion, because they waited to get still
more damaging evidence.
THE public can form no idea Of the
immense amount of evidence gather
ed against these men by my agents,
who slept for scores of days and
nights at the same hotels with them,
followed them from place to place, re-
lieving one another, of course, SO as
not to be recognized; examing hotel
registers, visiting dynamite and nitro
glycerine plants, clock makers and
wire factories, attending meetings Of
labor unions, keeping watch on sup.
posedly doomed plants, factories
and mills, getting specimens Of hand
writing and comforting with the po
lice and with threatened manufactur
ers in many cities.
Hard Work Won Success,
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