Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-10-08
PLANNED T0Bb0H
. UP CANAL LOCKS
GOVERNMENT ALLEGES PLOT TO
DYNAMITE THE PANAMA
CANAL.
ANOTHER PLEAD GUILTY
Edward Clark. One of the Defendants
Entered Plea of Guilty AT
Yesterdays Session.

INDIANAPOLIS, oct. 7.-Pages
from the careers of the McNamaras
and Ortle E. McManigal. as leaders
Of the "Flying Squadron of Dynamit-
ers," with conversations in which
they are said to have pDtted to send
McManigal to Panama to blow up tho
locks of the Panama canal, were read
by District Attorney Charles w. Mil
Ter before the jury at the trial of the
accused dynamite uonspirators' to-
day.
The incident in reference to PAN
anna, Mr.. Miller said, occurred just
before the arrest of the Los Angeles
dynamiters when they were becoming
desperate in their efforts TO secure eX-
plosives without betraying their iden.
titles.
John j. Called James b. Mcnamara,
his brother, and McManigal, to the
headquarters of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers." said Mr.. Miller. John
j. said to McManigal: we can't get
any more dynamite here without steal
ing 1t. Now, you go to Panama and
see what you can do down there. Tho
McClintic- Marshall Construction COM
pany has lot of dynamite stored
down there. You can easily get hold
of 1t and blow up the locks. That
would make 'em sit up and take no
tice and take their minds off the Los
Angeles affair McManigal refused to
20 at that time. Soon after they all
were arersted."
The contractor mentioned was one
those who had declared an open
ship" in the United States.
Edward Clarke, of Cincinnati, for
mer president of the local iron work
ers, changed his plea from mot
guilty" to guilty" and was locked up
pending sentence.
Olaf Tveitmoe, of San Francisco,
now on trial, was accused in the gov
ernments statement to the jury as
having been the protector of the dy-
namiters on the Pacific coast. Tveit-
NEE. the prosecutor said, pointed out
how the Los Angeles Times building
and the Llewelyn Iron Works were
to be blown up, and also wanted the
Baker Iron Works and the Times
Auxiliary plant blown up, promising
to the dynamiters, according to the
government, that Tveitmoe's friend
ship with P. II. McCarty, then mayor
of San Francisco, would insure pro-
lection from the police. Tveitmoe was
then editor of trade paper and sec
retary Of the building trades council
of California.
Events duplicating the present de-
PENDANTS, as charged by Mr. Miller be-
fore the Jury, were as follows:
w. Bert Brown, then business agent
of local union at Kansas City Mo-,
James B. Mcnamara and "a citizen
whose name was not dlvulged, In Au-
gust 1910, had a conference about
blowing up 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 cvonducted by Brown
and William ]. Mccain, also a busi-
ness agent at Kansas City. with the
oronetaolnshrdlu lifo- cmfwypetaoi
iron workers headquarters In Indian
apolis James b. Ford, the citizen.
regularly said: There's lots Of money
in 1t. We're going to Los Angeles and
blow the whole town to hell. Well
have unlimited money back of us and
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