Arizona republican., 1912-12-29

ment which we in the future were to regulate the time for exploding bombs A few days later Hockin wired me to come to Indianapolis, where he and I and J. J. McNamara fully went over the clock scheme With it I went to Mount Vernon, H., and pulled off a job on a power house for which Hockin paid me S125."
 It was Tn the summer of 1910 when explosions were frequent that Me Manigal said his relations with Hook in were broken off because he dis covered Hockin had been keeping part of his pay. About that same time witnesses said Hockin began to give information about the dynamiters
 Edward Smythe, of Peoria, Ill, also was accused by McManigal as having personally pointed out jobs to be blown up A hotel keeper related that after the explosion Smythe ex- amined the hotel register, and later the page on which McManigal had registered was found to be torn out. McManigal said Smytthe arranged to go to a theater the night of the ex- plosion and prove an alibi by keep ing the seat checks.
 President Ryan, of the iron workers union. and all the other defendants were charged with being principals to the conspiracy through the writing of letters. Ryan's defense was that the McNamaras and those who con- fessed alone knew that "dynamiting campaign was being carried on, and that the executive board members did not know what Secretary McNamara did with the s1,000 monthly appro- priated for his use without his being required to give an accounting.
 Beyond doubt the testimony which attracted keenest interest was that which related to the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building. That man could deliberately buy 800 pounds of high explosive with the purpose only of destroying property gave unusual Zest to that party of the story.
 Unrestricted by the court, the gov ernment went into every available de- tail of James B McNamara's activity on the Pacific coast which was consid cred essential to th9 charges here The dynamiter's arrival in San Fran cisco. after he left his brothers office in Indianapolis in July of 19l0 his accompanying McManigal as far as Chicago, his sending back to Me Manfgal a postcard giving him greet ings from the far west. and saying, The best of friends must part; the dynamiter's wanderingS about San Francisco, his meeting with Clancy in Seattle, his taking lessons" from an electrical expert in Seattle in how to set off a bomb by a spark instead of by a fuse his causing an explo- sion in Seattle, and his return to San Francisco preparatory to going to Los Angeles, were all traced.
 A woman in San Francisco who rented room to McNamara. a wom an who rented a room to Schmidt. and another woman friend of Caplan telephone operators who connected McNamara with the powder company which sold him the nitrogelatine, the men from whom he, Schmidt and Caplan rented the launch used to carry the explosive: clerk who sold the aluminium letters by which the name of the launch was disguised: a man who rented the house in which the 500 pounds of nitrogelatine was stored in San Francisco; a clerk in a hotel in Los Angeles to whom Me Namara bid good night at about o'clock at night. after the bomb had been set in Ink alley" in the Times building, and policemen who ran to the wreck after the building was destroyed and McNamara had fled, all testified.
 In connection with the explosion the story of William J. Burns was given His son, Raymond J. Burns, also related how detectives had Mo Namara and Mechanical pointed out to them on Nov. 6. 1910, five months and six days before the arrests were made In the meantime these dyna- miters were followed on a hunting trip to northern Wisconsin. but they escaped the detectives and ten more explosions occurred. Burns said he was looking for men higher up.'
 McManigal testified and others tes- tified. that Hockin had said many more explosions were planned just about the time of the arrests of the dynamiters These proposed plots to blow up the locks of the Panama canal; to blow up various buildings in eastern cities where the offices of "open shop" contractors were located: to blow up many railroad bridges, and even to cause more explosions on the Pacific coast.