The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
Told to Him While the Two
Were on Hunting Trip
in Wisconsin
: CHARGES TvEITMOE
ARRANGED FOR JOB
Mcnamara Said He Was Sorry So
Many Were KiIled-Wanted to
Get" Otis-Tore Off Gas
Jet in Times Building

Indianapolis. November 14.-For ths
first time since the 21 persons were
killed In the blowing UP of the Los
Angeles Times building on October 1
1910, ]. B. McNamaras detailed confes.
sion to having caused the explosion
with his motives for doing 1t and his
comments on the fact that so many
people were killed. was related on the
witness stand in the dynamite con-
spiraoy' trial today.
ortie E. .AIcManigal testified the con-
fession was given to him while he was
hiding Mcnamara : o. the woods five
2 miles from conover. wis, both of them
having gone to the Wisconsin woods
on the pretext of being hunters
Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene L.
Clancy. San Francisco labor leaders.
McManigal testified, were named by Nc
Nsn1ara as having made arrangements
for the Los Angeles explosion and rs
having furnished the two men--F. a.
schmittl and David Caplan-to assist
In buying the high power nitro galtin.
because Schmitt and Caplan had
been regularly employed on the coast
by the building trades council of Cali
fornia." Tveitmoe ana Clancy are among
the As defendants now on trial.
caplan and Schmitt. named by Nc
Manigal, were indicted in Los Angeles
county with James B. Mcnamara on
charges of murder, but they never have
been captured. Government agents have
been Informed that Caplan was killed.
Wanted Whole Building To Go
When he asked Mcnamara why he
twisted off a gas jet in the basement
of the Times building before the ex-
plosion, McManigal testified, Mcnamara
--said: Because when the explosion oe-
cured | wanted the whole building to
so to H.
But | am sorry so many were
killed. McNamara added. Il hoped to
get General Otis.
McManigal said that on November
5, 1910, he was at his home in Chicago
and expected to leave the next day for
Kenosha, Wis, whence he was to start
with hunting party in charge of
Marion Sharpe. That very day. he said,
John ]. Mcnamara, brother of the Los
Angeles Times dynamiter asked him
TO take James b. on the hunting trip.
He went to Kenosha and James r.
Joined him there. They procured hunt
ing licenses and went with the party
TO Conover, and then to camp five
miles in the country.
col NoAI
missed James b. and started out alone
TO look for some deer. Standing on a
tree stump suddenly heard the crack
of a pistol. Presently / saw James b.
Suspicion flashed into my mind. | accused
him right out.
II think you were taking a shot at
me- | said. II you do you had better be
quick about it. This is d fine place up
here to get rid of man, just shoot him
and the coyotes will eat up his body
Told M'Manigal of Explosion
He replied he Just did it to scare
me. Then, we being alone for the first
time, he sat down and told me about the
Los Angeles job lie said when he went
to the coast in July he got in touch
with Tveitmoe and Clancy, according to
Instructions from his brother at the head
quarters Of the Iron Workers union in
Indianapolis.
iNtithpe am NtducJ, ne SAID, pui
Caplan and Schmitt at his disposal
Schmtt was too much of talxer. he said
and when he blew up a Job In Oakland
August 20 he made Schmitt stay in san
Francisco.
Leading up to the Los Angeles ex-
plosion, J. b. said he found YOU could
get all the money you wanted ON the
coast. He said Tveitmoe was the big pay
master. and there never was anythng Ia
fear for Tveitmoe was a friend of Mayor
Mccarthy and in fact Tveitmoa was the
mayor of San Francisco
He said Schmitt had scheme TO SET
off bombs by chemicals, which he had
learned. from friend of Tveitmo but
when he tMcNamara) showed them the
alarm clock scheme they all decided il
was best
Il aakea him why he went after the
Times He answered Tveitmoe had n,,t
him on to II.
Then he told me about how different
IT was out there to buy explosives: how
they decided at last TO get launca and
buy nitrogIycerin Of So per cent strength
sentation @ that It used q" ifo for repre. s,ow
ias hs msn mp ''s"s 70 Buying aRs the hs 'sa.
plosive. ~
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