Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-08
District Attorney Miller Says Dynamiters Had Plot
 ted to Have 0rte McManigaI Do the Iob
WAS PLANNED JUST BEFORE THEIR ARREST
John j. McNamara Told Him There Was Plenty of Dynamite Stored About There-Detective Works in the Deal to Have 'Wholesale Blowing Up" at Detroit and Dyna- mters Were Arrested Before It Was Consumrnated

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. .!-Pages f rom the careers of the McNamaras and Ortie E. McManigal as leader of the flying squadron of dynamiters," with conversations in which they were ''aid to have plotted to send McMani- gal to Panama to blow up the locks of the Panama canal. were read by District Attorney c. W. Miller before the jury at the trial of the accused dynamite conspirators" today The Panama Incident.
 The incident in reference to Panama, MT. Miller said, occurred just before the arrest of the Los Angeles dyna- niters, when they were becoming des- perate in their efforts to secure ex- plosives without betraying their iden- titles. John J. called James B. Me- Namara, his brother, and McManigal to the. headquarters of the Interna- tional Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers" said NIT. Miller.
 McManisal Refused to Go.
 John J. said to McManigal: We can't get any more dynamite around here without stealing it. Now you go to Panama and see what you can do down there. The McClintic- Marshall Construction company has a lot of dynamite stored down there. You could easily get hold of 1t and blow up the locks. That would make 'em sit up and take notice. and take their minds off the Los Angeles affair." Me- Manigal refused to go at that time. Soon after they were all arrested"
 Clark Pleads Guilty.
 The contractor mentioned was one of those who had declared for the open shop in the United States. Other developments of the day were l Edward Clark, Cincinnati former l president of the local Iron Workers l union, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty and was locked up, pending sentence.
 Tveitmos "Proteetorr of pynamiters.
 Olaf Tveitmoe San Francisco, now Ii on trial, was accused in the govern ments statement to the jury as having been the protector" of the dynamiters on the Pacific coast, who pointed out how the Los Angeles Times building and LleWellyn Ion works were to be | blown up, who wanted the Baker Iron works and the Times auxiliary plant i blown up, and who promised to the dynamiters that his (Tveitmoes) | friends with P. H. Mccarthy. then mayor of San Francisco, to insure pro- | tection from the police. Tveitmoe was then editor of trade paper and | secretary of the Building Trades coun- cil of California. Mccarthy was re- gently in Indianapolis
 Plot to Blow Up Bridge.
 Events duplicating the present de- | fendants, as charged by MT. Miller be- fore the jury, were as follows: ! w. Bert Brown, then business agent of a local union at Kansas City, Mo, James B. McNamara and a citizen, whose name was not divulged," Tn 1 August, 1910. had a conference about blowing up a S1,500,000 bridge being constructed by an employer of non union labor across the Missouri river at Kansas City. Previously negotia- | tions had been conducted by Brown and William J. Mccain, also a busi- ness agent at Kansas City, with the l iron workers headquarters in Indian apolis.
 James B. McNamara's Boast.
 James B. offered to employ the citizen" regularly, saying there's lots | of money in it. We're going to Los Angeles and blow the whole town to hell. We have unlimited money back of us and If we ever get in trouble we'll have the best lawyers that money can buy" The citizen did not go into the deal. On Aug. 22 McManigal, after being three days in Kansas City. placed 12 quarts of nitro -glycerine dl- vided in three four quart paint cans beneath the understructure of the bridge.
 Cans Recovered by Government. The explosions did not occur until ! the next day, and after McManigal had replaced the weak batteries on the bomb timers with stronger ones. Parts of the cans were recovered by the government. Meantime James E. had gone to arrange for the Los Angeles i Times explosion, after accomplishing which, and hiding for two weeks in Salt Lake City, he returned east be- ing met in Nebraska by Frank Ick hoff of Cincinnati with a message from John J. James B. said:
 McNamara Got Scared.
 q have been keeping pretty low. If I could get by for five years like J. E. Munsey In Salt Lake. they'd forget about the Los Angeles affair. Coming back on the train everybody was read 1 ing about the Los Angeles Times dis aster and I thought everyone was looking at me That's what made me gel off at Salt Lake"
 James E. and McManisal then went hunting in the woods of Wisconsin to hide.
 Pacific Coast Explosions Talked Up.
 The next month al the iron workers convention in St. Louis TVeitmoe had a talk with J. J.. saying il was all wanted some "Cht istmas presents in the shape of blowing mp the LlewellNn Iron works, the Baker Iron works and turned to Indianapolis. John J. told him of what Tveitmoe had said.
 Protected by Mayor Mccarthy.
 'It will be great thing while they are looking for the other fellows to 1 have eight or ten more of them out 1 there by somebody they never saw, said John J. to McManigal. No one knows you and you can slip in and do 1 the jobs. But don't use nitro glycer- l inc. It Is not as safe as dynamite l and you don't have to be so careful Tell the old man (meaning Tveitmoe) 1 he'll get his Christmas presents. He told me his friend Mayor Mccarthy, controls the police force and we'll be protected" After the Llewellyn Iron works explosion on Dec. 25 J. J. wrote to Eugene A. Clancey ofa San Fran 1 cisco: "Tell the old man his Christi l mas present has been delivered;" and l Tveitmoe wrote letter to J. J., con- ! cI1diDg eSTruatinp Santa Clans will ha