Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-10-12
EXPLOSIVES ARE IN EVIDENCE
Array of Death Dealing instruments
in the Dynamite Trial.
GUNS AND INTERNAL MACHINES
timony with Articles Found in
Various cities where the
Wreclxing Occurred.


INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 11.-Pieces of ex-
ploded bombs, old tin cans In which
nitro-glycerine had been carried car
tridges, fuses and magazine guns were
put in readiness by the government today
to be used as exhibits in the dynamite
conspiracy trial.
Gathered from many sections of the
country in the wake Of Ortie McManigal
and the McNamaras they have been
classified by Clarence w. Nichols. as
sstant district attorney, and are to be
used as physical evidence in the gov.
ernment's charge of illegal interstate
shipment Of explosives.
Nichols, who prepared much of the
governments case before the federal
grand jury, for weeks has been engaged
with assistants in asserting the tumble
of evidence. sf
Six hundred and twenty exhibits have
been listed. They are to be presented
to the jury, one by one. and includes.
Two magazine guns, Q rifle, fuses and
alarm clock attachments for bonlbs.
taken from the valises Of McManigal and
James B. Mcnamara, when they were
arrested In lobby of hotel In Detroit
April r. 1911; fuses, alarm clocks and
dynamite boxes taken from the valuts
of the International Association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers when
] J. Mcnamara, the secretary, was ar
rested in Indianapolis on April 22, 1911;
fibroid suit case, made in Cincinnati,
for carrying nitro-glycerine cans, found
Legleitner, now Of Denver, is alleged to
have brought over from Pittsburgh to
the iron workers headquarters In In.
dlanapolis; nitro-glycerin cans found
near a portion of bridge over the Mis-.
souri, river at Kansas City, Mo-, which
McManigal blew up August g. 1910; suit
case in which McManigal carried dyna.
mite and which bears the stains Of hay.
ing been placed in radiator, McManl-
gal said he put 1t on a radiator at his
home in South Sangamon street, Chicago
to thaw out the dynamite, and when he
returned he found his little girl on the
floor playing with the explosive. A
shawl strap in which George GIipper)
Anderson. Cleveland, a defendant, is
charged with having carried a dynamite
box to a suburb Of Cleveland; parts OF
an internal machine found near the
home Of F. J. Zeehandelaar of Los An.
geles, on the morning the Los An
geles Times building was blown UP.
/ The original bill for s1.60 paid for the
aluminium letters used by James B. Nc
Namara and his accomplices in chang.
ing the name "Pastime' to Peerless on
the launch In which the explosive used
at Los Angeles was brought into San
Francisco bay, will also be offered.
SEEKS TO Bring In Gompers.
| Whether Samuel Gompers. president OF
the American Federation OF Labor was
present at certain labor union meeting
held In 81. Louis, Mo-. in November 1901,
was asked by government attorneys.
Frank Schilling clerk of hotel in st.
Louis. testified that the international
Association Of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers was holding its annual
convention in st. Louis at the time He
named Frank M. Ryan, Chicago; Michael
]. Young, Boston; r. ]. McNulty, Newark
N. j.; M. B. Madden. Chicago, and OLAF
A. Tveltmoe, San Francisco. as regis
tered at the hotel,
The convention was held month after
the Los Angeles Times disaster, and II
was at this time, the government charges,
that Tyeitmoe told Ryan. president Of the
iron workers. that the Pacific coast ex-
pected christmas present" in the shape
of more explosions Tveitmoe also was
described as '.the big paymaster' who
financeS the dynamiters AT the st. Louis
meeting he is charged with promoting
the Lleweliyn Iron works explosion.
Was Gompers registered at the hotel
at the timer? asked Attorney Noel.
"He was not registered, but he was
around the hotel a good DEAL" answered
the witness.
United States Senator ]. w. Kern. for
the defense. objected: "Gompers is not a
defendant He has nothing to do with
the case
Nothing, other than 1t will be shown
he had something to do with the defense
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