The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-11-21
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ON EXHIBITION
Part Of Internal Machines Used In
Los Angeles Times Explosion
Are Identified

indianapolis, Nov. IS. -Blackened
pieces of Internal machines which
figures in the explosion at Los An.
geles, Cal, on Oct. /, 1910, when 81
people were killed in the wreck Of
The Times building, were identified
at the "dynamiting conspiracy" trial
today. Events involving the handl-
ing Of the nitrogelatin with which
James B. Mcnamara caused the ex-
plosion were nrst described by wit.
nesses.
William Flynn, employee of a pow.
der company in San Francisco, tes-
titled that on Sept. 20, 1910, he pack.
ed in boxes 500 pounds of nltro-gel.
attn and delivered it to the launch
used by Mcnamara. That was ten
days before the Los Angeles explo-
sion.
Meantime the dynamiters had
stored the explosive in a vacant
house in San Francisco and McNa-
mara had taken supply to Los An
geles.
Joseph w. Brigham, a motorman
in Los Angeles said after he had
witnessed the wreck of The Times
home Of Felix J. Zeehandelaer, Sec
rotary of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association when a won.
an called him. She pointed out
package. Later police came and the
package was found to contain a bomb
Thomas f.. Rice one OF the police
detectives called, told OF unwrapping
the package and the finding of 16
sticks Of nitro-gelatin.
Explosion Near Otis Home
From there I was sent to the
home Of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis,
proprietor of The Times" said Rice.
AT Gen. Otis home we found
suit case under bay window. I car
ried the case about 70 feet and call
ed the chief of police. When he ar.
rived, we opened the case. In doing
so, | heard the buzzing of an alarm
clock. We all ran and in another in
slant there was an explosion which
tore up the ground for an eighth of
an acre"
Other witnesses hal testified that
Mcnamara confessed to having plac-
ed all the bombs in Los Angeles to
explode at / a. m.
A clock was shown the Jury as
having been taken from the bomb
near the Zeehandelaer home the
alarm was set for / a. m. but had
failed to work.
Tveitmoe and Johannsen
Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Anton Jo-
hansen, San Francisco labor lead
ers were named by dynamite consplr-
acy witnesses today as having been
in the company OF j. b. Mcnamara
alleged accomplices before the Los
Angeles explosion.
James ID. Graham, formerly EN-.
ployed by the Asiatic Exclusion
League of which Tveitmoe was pres.
ident, said NJ. A. Schmidt and Da-
vid Captain used to frequent the near
by Offices of the California Building
Trades Council and Tveitmoe saw
them there. The witness testified as
to a telephone number which McNa-
mara Is said to have used in calling
up Tveitmoe when the preparations
for the Los Angeles explosions were
under way. Graham said Johannsen
and Secretary Yoell of the league
saw Schmidt about the place.
Schmidt and Caplan were indicted
on charges of murder as accomplices
of Mcnamara, but they never were
captured. They have been described
as men who figured in the purchase
of the explosive.
Mrs. r. ID. Campbell, formerly
Mrs. Pesanti, keeper of IL hote
across the bay from San Francisco
at Corte MADEIRA, said Schmidt ant
Johannson visited her place. Mrs
Bell LAWN, from whom Schmid
rented room in San Francisco, TOLD
of McNamara's visit to her home
MS. LAWN said she visited Cort
MADEIRA with Schmidt and on the da
of the explosion at Los Angeles h
left her home.
Atty. Veitch Testifies
Arthur Veitch, assistant district al
torney Of Los Angeles county, test
fed that in December 1911, ne tall
ed to Eugene A. Clancy, anothe
San Francisco labor leader in tn
presence of Oscar Lawler.
Clancy, according to Veitch admit
ted having sent kilograms in Jul
1911 to John j. McNamar at Indiar
apolis requesting that James B., b
sent to the Pacific coast.