New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-22
SAYS NE|TMOE URGED
SECOND COAST OUTRAGE
MCManigaI Declares "TimeS"
Auxiliary Was Saved Because
1t Was Too Well Guarded.
OBJECT TO AID MCNAMARA
Explosions Planned, Witness
Testifies, to Take Suspicion
Off James B.-Ctrist-'
mas Gift Delivered.

Indianapolis. Nov. H.-Equipped with
twelve quarts of nitroglycerine, Ortie E.
Mechanical. in December, 1910, went to
Los Angeles commissioned to destroy the
Times auxiliary plant, and by adding
few more to the list OF dead" to take sus-
picion off James B. Mcnamara, who had
killed twenty-one persons in the wreck OF
the Times Building two months before.
Mechanical so testified to-day at the
dynamite conspiracy trial. He named
men other than the McNamaras as nav
ing inspired the second Los Angeles dyna-
mite plot. He said he was prevented from
carrying II out by the discovery, on reach
ing Los Angeles, that the auxiliary plant
was too well guarded and illuminated at
night Instead, he set bomb In the
Llewellyn Iron Works plant to explode on
Christmas.
McManigal and James b. Mcnamara
had been hiding in the Wisconsin WOODS
McManigal said. like pair of pirates
each with a red handkerchief about his
head, in conformity with the game laws
and a rife over his shoulder, when a
number OF detectives appeared at their
lodging house. Eludng the detectives,
they came to Indianapolis. So elated was
John J. Mcnamara over the escape of his
brother that he proposed that McManigal
start at once for Los Angeles. McMani-
gal said:
John j. said he had been 10 a labor
convention at st. Louis and had seen
Tveitmoe there and that Tveitmoe want
ed some more explosions TO come on on
the Coast. James b. said he would IKE
to go out and do IT, but j J. objected:
saying they were looking for man OF
his description on the Coast, and II would
oe a good idea for a stranger to do the
jobs and get back East as soon as pos
sible. and then the authorities would
think their man was still in Los Angeles.
He said | was to cause three explosions
the Times" auxiliary plant, the Baker
Iron Works and the Llewellyn Iron
under the Times auxiliary and add
few more TO the list OF dead. They've
been questioning Tveitmoe and Anton
Johannsen out there, and wen throw
them off the track"
He also told me 20 Ak up some kind OF
a suitcase with a bomb in IL so that II
would explode when anybody opened II.
He remembered how the bombs at Cen
r.
on the morning Of the Times explosion
had failed to work, and the evidence was
in the hands OF the authorities. He
wanted It hxed so that, II the police got
be much OF the bombs left after they
were opened
After telling about the placing of dyna-
mite In the Llewellyn Iron Works at Los
Angeles. the witness added:
Then went to San Francisco and called
at Labor Temple There / met Clancy
jokingly: I've come TO get the Los An
geles dynamiter," for he had been read
ing about the explosion. When he learned
who l was he became calm. We talked
Young, OF Boston, as being mutual
friends. He said Tveitmoe was out, but
he would give him my message that the
Christmas present had been delivered.
| asked him what had become OF NJ. A.
Schmidt and David Captain, who helped
James b. on the Times" job. He only
smiled
McManigal told OF a conversation with
Herbert S. Hockin in which It was pro-
posed Ito get rid OF" Miss Marcy c. Dye.
McNamara's stenographer at the union
headquarters, because she knew too
much"
McManigal also stated that In ESCAPING
from Los Angeles after blowing up the
Times Building. James b., going by way
OF San Francisco. dropped four Internal
machines in the bay between San Fran
cisco and Oakland.
when ! saw James y. in the company
of detectives / thought something was
up" said Mechanical II told James B.
he probably had told them everything
and was going to quit right there That
was why he wanted me to hold up the
can for him to shoot at"