El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-29
DECLARES HOCKIN
AIDED PROSECUTOR
Witness at the dynamite Conspiracy
Trial Says Accused IFOnWOrker
Produced Important Records.


Produced Important Records.
Indianapolis. Ind. Oct 2s.-Herbert
S. Hockin. accused Of being a dynamiter
equally guilty with the Mcnamara
brothers, was again charged by a wit
ness at the dynamite conspiracy trial
today with secretly having given evil
dence to the government
Charles E. Freeman. a public accOun-
tant, testified that curing the federal
grand jury investigation of illegal
shipment Of explosives, HOckin vOlun-
tarily turned over hundreds of letters
taken from J. J. McNamara's office
HOckin, as acting secretary of the Iron
Workers union, was in charge of the
office in the absence OF president Frank
N. Ryan.
We went TO the Iron Workers head
quarters last December" said Freeman.
"HOckln was there He pointed out
such letters. books and other papers as
we wanted and then left US undiStuTbed
to do as we wished.
Informed Ryan of Explosion.
John Golden, president OF the United
Textile Workers OF America, testified
that he had correspondent with the Iron
Workers union headquarters in Indian
apOlis about an explosion.
He said April, 1908, he wrote to
Frank NJ Ryan, president Of the Inter
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, enclosing
clipping headed Dynamite EXplOdes,
and saying enclosed please find news
paper clipping which will be self-eX-
planatOry
The clipping referred to an explosion
on April &c, 1908, at Fall River, Mass,
when two spans of the SHADES ferry
bridge across the Taunton river were
blown up. The work was being done
for Bristol county by contractor
against whom the Iron Workers had
called q strike 1t was one of the Jobs
InH TrNT n "a
ing Travelled from Indianapolis to blow
I'D on instructions from j. j. McNa-
mara
sent to him by Ryan. In the reply
Ryan referred to an editorial in the
union magazine, commenting on the
finding of dynamite on a job IN CIeVe-
land which non-union workman said
he placed in order that he might dis
cover the explosive and be promoted.
Ryan's reply to Golden was that the
Fail River explosion might be classed
with the finding of the dynamite IN
Cleveland
Identifies MeNamara's Guns.
Three automatic machine guns, one
shot gun and cartridges were presented
before the jury as having been the
property Of J. j. Mcnamara James b
Mcnamara and 8IcManigal. They were
identified by Frank P Baker, prosecut-
ing attorney of Marion county, as part
of the property taken from the Iron
Workers headquarters after the Nc
Namara's were arrested.
". Il. Hart, clerk Of a hotel at Lex
ington. Ky told of McManigaIs visit
to Lexington on October 16, 1910. Nc
Aanigal confessed he was on his way
to High Bridge, Ky, to secure photo
graphs Of construction work which
Mcnamara planned to blow up.
In his confession McManigal said he
already had talked to Mcnamara about
the Pacific coast explosion and Mona
mara was anxious to have the echoes
in the east. He made two trips to
Kentucky, he said, with a viwe Of caus-
ing an explosion there.
j. H. Mccormick, Of Seattle, testified
that a month before the Los Angeles
Times explosion, October ], 1910, he
rented a Dom to J. B. Mcnamara The
witness said H. W POhlman, Seattle
labor leader. frequently called on Nc
Namara at the TOOming house at that
time
Mcnamara represented himself as
being Petervitch,' said Mccormick
''de was at the house for several weeks,
seldom going out except at night and
receiving mail addressed to y. b. Bryce,
who he said was his partner. When an
office building in Seattle was blown up
on August 81, I went to see what was
the matter and found PeterVitch COM
ing away from th- explosion. At the
time Of the Los Angeles explosion Pc
tervitch had left Sc title, but he re-
turned about four days later"