The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-08
Opening Statement of Gov
ernrnent Attorney in Dyna-
mite Conspiracy Case
Grows Stronger.
HINT THAT MUNSEY
IS MAN WITH PAST
Edward Clark, Former Presi.
dent Of Cincinnati Iron
Workers Union, Pleads
Guilty to Conspiracy.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Oct. Pages
from the careers of the McNam-
aras and Ortic McManigaI, as
leaders of ''the flying squadron
of dynamitcrs, with conversations in
which they were said TO have plotted
TO send McManigal to Panama 10 blow
up the locks Of the Panama canal, we're
read by District Attorney Miller be-
fore the jury at tho trial Of the ac-
cused ''dynamite conspirators' to-
day
The Incident in reference to Panama,
Mr.. Miller said, occurred Just before
the arrest of the Los Angeles dyna
miters, when they were becoming des-
perate In their efforts to secure ex
plosives without betrayiug their iden-
tity.
John J. called James =. Mcnamara,
his brother. and McManigal TO the
headquarters of International Associa-
tion of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers. said Mr. Miller. "John i.
said to McMauigal, fwc can't get any
more dynamite around here without
stealing it.. Now You go to Panama
| aud see what you can do down there.
The McCliutic. Marshall Construction
company has lot of dynamite stored
down there. You could easily get hold
Of it and blow up the locks. That would
make 'em sit up and take notice and
tnke their minds off the Los Angeles
affair." McMaDiga1 refused to 20 at
that time. Soon after they all were
arrested.
The contractor mentioned was ono
of those who had declared for the
"open shop" in the United States.
Clark Pleads Guilty.
Other developments of the day were:
Edward Clark. Cincinnati, former
president Of the local Iron Workers ,
union. changed his plea from "not
guilty. to "guilty,' and was locked
up, pending sentence.
Olaf Tveitmoe, San francisco, now
on trial, was accused in the govern
ment 3 statement to the jury, as hay
ing been the protector OF the dyna-
miters OH the Pacific coast, who point
ed out how tho Los Angeles Times
building and the Llewellyn Iron Works
were to be blown up, who wanted the
Baker Iron Works and the Times aux
iliary plant blown up and who prom
ised to the dynamiters that his (Tveit-
moe 's) friendship with p Fl. Mccarthy,
| then mayor of San Francisco, would in
| sure protection from the police. TyeIt-
| moe was then editor of a trade paper
and secretary of the Building Trades
council Of California. Mccarthy re-
Gently was in Indianapolis.
Events duplicating the present de-
| PENDANTS, as charged by Mr. Miller be-
! fore the jury follow;
Declined the Job.
| w. Bert Brown, then business agent
| of a local union at Kansas City, Mo-,
James B. Mcnamara and ga citizen y
whose name WIS not divulged, 10
August. 1910. had conference about
blowing up a sl,5OO,0o0 bridge being
constructed by aD employer of non
nnion labor across the Missouri river
1
al Kansas City. Previously negotia"
tions had been conducted by Brown
and William j. Mccain, also busi.
ness agent at Kansas City, with the
iron workers headquarters in Indian
apolis.
James B. offered to employ the
"citizep' regularly, saying There 8
lois Of money in it. We are going to
Los Angeles and blow the whole town
70 he'll. We have unlimited money
back Of us. and If we ever get in
trouble we'll have the best lawyers
that money can buy.
! The citizen did not go into the deal
On August 90 McMnnigal. after being
three days in Kansas City, placed
twelve quarts of nitro glycerin beneath
the uuder structure Of the bridge. Tho
explosion did not occur until the next
dsy and after McManignl had replaced
the weak batteries on tho bomb timers
with stronger ones Part of the caus
we're recovered by the government,
Meantime James B. had goue to ar
range for the Los Angeles Times eS-
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