Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-11-19
Government Winds Evidence
Around Men Accused of Plot
ting to Blow Up Non-Uai9n
Structures.
DETECTIVES REPEAT
CLANCY'S STATEMENT


SdfdIng "J0DS,
NY Morning journal Special icascd wire
Indianapolis, NOV. lS.-lloW Eu-
gene a. Clancy a labor union olfiaiai,
OF san Francisco tainted when al
ter making admissions IN the district
attorneys office in Los Angeles he
saw through the crack Of a door
standing in another room, orte T..
McMnnigal. the confessed dynamitcr.
was related at the dynamite CON
spiracy" trial today.
oscar Lawler special assistant to
the attorney general, and Arthur l.,
Neitch, who gathered evidence in the
dynamiting eases in California, SAID
Clancy collapsed in December. lel Il
after admitting in their presence that
he knew James Is. Mcnamara was on
the coast to blow up non-union Jobs.
l.aWlor and Neitch also nanted oal
A. Tvcitmoe ana Anton Johannsen,
san Francisco, w. H. pohlman, Seat
tie, ana j. e. Munsey. salt Lake City,
as being aware OF McNanlara's dyna-
hitting mission.
The witnesses said Clancy a. the
district attorneys office told this
story
In August before the Los Angeles
Times explosion. Clancy went to Sc
attic, where he was introduced by
Pohlman to James y. Mcnamara, Who
said to Clancy, You know what I'm
out here for. and then explained hel
was to do dynamiting. Clancy then
went to the Rochester convention of
the International Association tot
Bridge and structural Iron Workers,
where he talked with j. ]. Mcnamara
about the visit Of the dynamiter tol
the Pacific coast.
CLANCY was in Boston with Michael
Young when he read of the killing of
people at the Los Angeles explosion.
Immediately he telegraphed tol
shorty, san Francisco to clean
house. meaning to get rid OF certain
kilograms about J BIS western trip.
lie also hurried west, stopping at SAT-
Lake City to see Munsey, the IRON
workers business agent there. whether
Munsey told him the dynamiter was
hiding in salt Lake city Clancy re-
fused to say adding
YOU had better see Munsey about
that
when the Lewellyn Iron works in
Los Angeles was blown up on De
cember Is, 1910. McMangal who did
that job. appeared in Clancys office
in san Francisco. Clancy told him
to see Tvetmoe.
Just after he had told this story, |
Clancy, who had heart trouble, turn
ed around ana saw McManigal
through the crack of door He
tainted Asked later why, knowing
Mcnamara was guilty he had joined
with Tveitmoc and Johannsen in the
defense Of the Mcnamara brothers
Clancy replied he considered it none
of his business.
Mr. LMwer then told Of an inter
view he had with Munsey, known as
"Jack Bright"
"Munsey told me that after the
Times explosion me was sent by J. !.
Nc cNamara to inquire whether the
people in Los Angeles thought the
building had been destroyed by escap-
ing gas, said Mr.. Lawlcr.
II told Munsey We had Information
that he hid James =. Nc Namara in
salt Lake CITY for two weeks after
the explosion that we had salt LAX"
Cit, tailor Theodore Bionn. whoi
made suit of clothes Tor Mcnamara,
ana in fact Munseys own wife had
given us a description of Mcnamara
as a man to whom she rented room
"Munscy admitted ne rented a
.oom to man named Williams but
he did not think he looked Ike Nc E
Nanara. also asked him whether
ts. no. I'm
getting the dynamitcr back to lndi-
lnapulis. He denied it and later said !
ie had decided 10 make clean
lrcast of H. We appointed to meet
he next day but in the meantime ,
had seen Johannsen and when !
"a reappeared the next day he had
lecided not to talk further
II also had talk with Tveitmoc :
bout labor conditions in Los Angeles I
n which he said General Harrison :
may otis, proprietor Of the Times. I
vas regarded as an enemy Of union d
abur" \
Malcolm Luaghead. chauffeur
estifed that in July. 1911, he took :
lrs. Flora Caplan, wife Of David Cap q
an. indicted on "a charge pf murder |
With McNamara. to Reno \ev. Mrs q
'aplan had been summoned as wit
ess against men other than her hus- ="
and
I.uaghead said he was called to u
office. whence. with u
ohannsen and another man. he drov" u
many miles to a canyon. where they "a
we're joined hy Mrs. caplan and her
NO children. Later they went tot 3"
Keno. he said. and TNeiimoc gave 60
i'm SIS tip for his work. Further ~
rstimony that Herbert :. Hockin. ri
ow on Trial furnished the govern r