The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-17
DYNAMITE TRAIN
TO KILL GIRL R||L
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Startling Testimony at indianapolis
Trial Tells How McNamsra Plot
ted to Keep stenosraphsr
From Telling seer,
/
THE TIMES : LosIoN
Boarding Houses Told Of Ex
element Of the Man Who Blew
up Newspaper Plant and Kill
ed Twenty-ono People.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l !
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. Ia
Details OF the Los Angeles Times
tragedy, costing twenty-one lives, the
keystone of the governments case
against the forty-five accused iron
workers, this afternoon were placed t
by District Attorney Miller before the
jury in the closing hours of the sew
enth week of the dynamite conspir-
acy trial.
Half a dozen witnesses from the
Pacific coast told of the movements
of ]. b. Mcnamara in California, nm
rnediately prior to the Times explo-
sion of October /, 1910; told how he
and his accomplices chartered boat
and obtained 500 pounds Of nitro gelar
tine from the Giant Powder Co.; how
he attempted to establish an alibi by
hurriedly renting a room in San Fran
| cisco; and finally described the ap-
pearance of the Times building arrerl
/ the explosion.
/ But none the less startling was the
! testimony Of Frank Eckoff OF Cincin-
\ natl, who told The jury that ]. B. Nc
i Namara asked him to kill him after
the Times affair and also accused ].
B. Mcnamara of plotting to dynamite
(, a train in order to kill Miss Mary Dye.
j confidential stenographer and reputed
4 fiance Of ]. j. Mcnamara, because
the McNamaras were safraid she
1 knew too much
4 The first California witness of the
4 afternoon was Mrs. Lena Ingersog,
lodging house keeper Of San Fran
cisco She said that a man calling
4 himself J. B. Bryce, but whom she
identified in jail In LOB Angeles as j.
/ B. Mcnamara, rented a room from
her September A. 1910, and retained
/ until September IA, when he told her
|, he was going across the bay He
gave her the hotel Argonaut as his
I. future address. He also gave her the
!, hotels telephone number.
Mrs. Ingersoll said that the myster-
ious "Schnidty," whom she described
/ as having "squinty left eye" called
on Mcnamara many times at her
house and was introduced to her,
The Witness said she next saw Nc.
Namara at II p. M. Oct. !, the day
of the Times explosion. He came to
her house. she said, out of breath, as
If he were in a hurry and visibly ax-
. cited. He begged her for room and
when she said there was none avail
able, he asked for any kind Of shell
ter.
sT,ll nay your house rent for 9
n month if you will let me sleep on this
| davenport or on the floor" she sait
Mcnamara implored. His manner
alarmed her, she said, and she firml,
refused to admit him. The woman
r said that on several days after tha
Mcnamara called her on the phone II
ask IL "Schmidty'' had called for him
She did not see him any more unit
called upon to identify him after hi,
arrest.
Miss Ethel Gill, telephone operate
= in the Argonaut, then identified rec
y ords Of many telephone calls fron
room 600, occupied by McNamara, ur
:. der the name Bryce, between Septem
u ber "a and rs. The government show
y ed that these calls were to Alamed
~ and to the Giant Powder Co in rel
20 erence to the steam launch and th
500 pounds of explosive.
There were more than twenty-ffv
California witnesses in the courtroom
: when the weeks adjournment cam
= tonight, waiting to tell their storie,
\ They will be heard Monday.
,s John Stanley, keeper Of an Alamed
: boat house told OF two men who cam
!. to him to negotiate for the rental {
a. steam launch. One gave the nam
+. ]. b. Bryson The other had "squil
"a eye" They were J. B. McNamar
4. and tSchmidty"
n ]. D. Burroughs Of Oakland, and e
ward Baxter of Alameda. joint ow
ers of the launch Pastims, were ca
ed to the stand in turn and told of Il
s.l two men negotiating with them Il
&C. the boat. The owners demanded $.
by rental for the boat for one week al
no a cash deposit Of $500 to guarantee /
es return. Mcnamara paid the $50
he giving $4OO then and 500 the ne
81 day. The men got the boat septeI
,e- ber 16 and returned 1t September
is