Bisbee daily review., 1912-12-29

StNes. hOckln Hdid me TOT tnt rent of the house and arranged with a well shooter to get the nitro-glycerine. which we transferred to the house in Muncie.
 Tn February. 1910. in Chicago. r received a telegram from Hockin to come to Indianapolis. I did not go. but J. B. McNamara came to Chicago and told me Hockin had sent him 10 explain a new invention. ]. B. eX- plained about the alarm clock arrange ment by which we in the future were to regulate the time for exploding bombs A few days later HOckin wir- ed me to come to Indianapolis. where he and I and J. J. McNamara fully went over the clock scheme. With 1t | went Co Mt Vernon. IT,. and pull ed off job on a pOwerhouse, tor which Hockin paid me S125."
 lt was in the summer of 1910 when explosions were frequent that Me Manigal said his relations with Hoe kin were broken off because he dis covered that Hockin had been keeping a part of his pay About that same time witnesses said Hoe kin began to give information about the dynamiters.
 Edward Smythe. of Peoria, III, al so was accused by McManigal as hay ing personally pointed out jobs to be blown up. hotel keeper related that after the eXplsion Smythe ex- amined ehe hotel register and later the page on which McManigal had registered was found to be torn out. McManigal said Smythe arranged 10 go to a theater the night of the ex- plosion and prove an alibi by keep ing the seat cheeks.
 President Ryan, of the Iron Work. CTS 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 "dyna- miting campaign" was being carried on, and that the executive board mem bers did not know what Secretary Me Namara did with the S1 OO0 monthly appropriated for his use without his being required 10 give an accounting.
 Beyond doubt the testimony which attracted keenest interest was that which related to the blowing up ot the Los Angeles Times building. That a man could deliberately buy 500 pounds of high explosive with the purose only of destroying prop erty gave unusual Zest to that part of the story.
 Unrestricted by the court, the gov ernment went into every available detail of James B. McNamara's ac- tivity on the Pacific coast which was considered essential to the charges here. The dynamiters arrival in San Francisco, after he left his brothers office in Indianapolis in July. 1910. his accompanying McMan- igal as far as Chicago, his sending back to McManigal a postcard giving him greetings from the far west, and 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 e&peIt In Seattle in how to set off a bomb hy spark instead Of by a fuse, his causing an explosion in Seattle, ani his return to San Francisco prepara- tory to going to Los Angeles, were al traced.
 A woman in San Francisco who rented a room to MCNamara, a wom- an who rented a room to Schmidt and another woman friend of Caplan, telephone operators who connected McNamara with the powder company which sold him the nitro-glycerine, the men from whom he, Schmidt and Caplan rented the launch used 10 ca '- " the explosive; a clerk who sold inc aluminium letters by which the name of the launch was disguised; a man who rented the house in which the 800 pounds of nitro-gelatine was stored in San Francisco: a clerk in hotel in Los Angeles 10 whom Me Namara 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 fled, all testified.
 In connection with the explosion, the story of William Burns was given His son. Raymond J. Burns, also re- lated how detectives had McNamaTa and McManigal pointed out 10 them on November 6, 1910, five months and six days before the arrests were made. In the meantime these dyna- miters were followed on a hunting trip to northern Wisconsin, but they the detectives and ten more eypiosions occurred. Burns said he was looking for men higher up
 McNanigaI testified, and others testified, that Hockin had said many more explosions were planned just about the time of the arrests ot the dvpamfters. These proposed plots were. To blow the locks Of the Panama canal: to blow mp various buildings in eastern cities where the offices of open shop contractors were located; to blow up many rail road bridges, and even 10 cause more explosions on the Pacific coast
 LOS ANGELES WAITS LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 2S.- District Attorney John D.. Frederick