Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-28

negotiating for. He had me buy u
piano box and rent q house, fill barrels
with sawdust and put them In the
house for storing the explosive. Hook
in paid me for the rent Of the house
and arranged with a w~ell.shooter to
get the nitroglycerin. which we trans
ferred to the house In Muncie.
Perfected Murderous Bombs
In February, 1910, in Chicago, |
received a telegram from Hockin to
come to Indianapolis. ! did not so,
but j. b. Mcnamara came to Chicago
and told me Hockin had sent him to
explain a new invention, j. b. ex-
planned about the alarm arrange
ment by which we in the future were
to regulate the tine for exploding
bombs. A few days later Hockin
wired me to come to Indianapolis,
where he and | and J. j, Mcnamara
fully vent into ii. ! went to Mt. Yer.
non, H., and pulled off a job on a
power house, for which Hockin paid
me $l25."
Relations Broken or
1t was In the summer of 1910 when
explosions We're frequent that Nc
Manigal said his relations with Hook
In were broken off because he discov-
cred Hockin had been keeping out Il
part OF his pay. About that same time
witnesses said Hockin began to give
information about the dynamiters.
Edward Smythe. of Peoria, ILL.,, also
I'VE nn,.n h, 0oN(ouiuov nc having
personally pointed out jobs to be
blown up. A hotel keeper related
that after the explosion Snythe ex-
amined the hotel register, and later
the page on which McManigal had
registered was found to be torn out.
McManigal said Smythe arranged to
60 to a theatre the night of the ex-
plosion and prove an alibi by keeping
the seat checks.
Union Officials Implicated
President Ryan, of the iron work
ers' union, and all the other defend
ants were charged with being prin-
%cipals to the conspiracy through the
writing of letters. Ryan's defense
was that the McNamaras and those
who confessed alone knew that a
"dynamiting campaign was being
carried on, and that the executive
board members did not know what
Secretary Mcnamara did with tho
$1,000 monthly appropriated for his
use without his being required TO
give an accounting.
J Beyond doubt the testimony which
attracted keenest interest vas that
which related to the blowing up OF the
Los Angeles "Times" building. That
a man could deliberately buy 500
pounds of high explosive with the
purpose only of destroying property
gave unusual zest to that part of the
story.
Mcnamara Closely Watched
Unrestricted by the court, the gov
eminent went into every available de-
tail of James E. McNamara's activity
on the Pacific coast which was con-
sidered essential TO the charge here.
The dynamiter's arrival IN San
Francisco, after he left his brothers
: office in Indianapolis in July, 1910,
his accompanying McManigal as tar
as Chicago, his sending back to Nc
Manigal a postcard giving him greet
ings from the far west, n saying.
"The best of friends must part; the
dynamiter's wanderings about San
Francisco, his meeting with Clancy
in Seattle, his taking lessons" from
an electrical expert in Seattle in how
to set off a bomb by a spark instead
OF by a fuse, his causing an explosion
in Seattle, and his return to San
Francisco preparatory to going to Los
Angeles, were all traced.
Many Witnesses Were Called
!, woman in San Francisco who
rented a room to Schmidt, and an
other friend Of Caplan, tele-|
phone operators who connected Mel
Ne.n2ra with the powder company
which sold him the nitrogelatine, the
men from whom he, Schmidt and
Caplan rented the launch used to
carry the explosive; a clerk who sold
the aluminium letters by which the
name of the launch was disguised;
a man who rented the house In which
the 500 ponds of nitroglycerine was
stored in San Francisco; a clerk IN
a hotel in Los Angeles to whom Nc
INamara bid good night" at about
o'clock at night after the bomb had
been set in Ink alley" in the Times
building, and policemen who ran to
the wreck after the building was de-
stroyed and Mcnamara had fed, all
testified.
Detective Burns Story
In connection with the explosion the
story of William'J J. Burns was given
His son, Raymond j. Burns, also re
lated how detectives had McNamari
and McManigal pointed out to then
Oh Nov. 6, 1910, five months and si1
days after the arrests were made. N
the meantime these d%ynarsters were
followed on a hunting trip to northern
Wisconsin, but they escaped the de
tectives and ten Tor explosions oc
Cured. Burns said he was lo0kin1
for "men higher up
McManioai Testified
McManiga1 testified, and other
testified. that Hockin had said man
more explosions were planned JUS
about the time of the. arrests Of tn
dynamiters. These proposed plot
were: To blow up the locks of tn
Panama canal; to blow up variou
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