El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-02
ALLEGED DYNAMITE CONsPIRbTORS
PLACED ON TRIAL IN indianapolis

J. Mcnamara as secretary-treaSu OF
the union, whom McManlgal accuses OF
being the organizer of the "dynamitinS
crew." and one of the Originators OF
the alarm clock scheme by which ex-
plosions were set of several hours
after the mine was placed
Most of the other defendants are
present or former union officials whom
the government charges were hnKeo
together in a conspiracy by an extern
siYe correspondence from 1905 to 1911,
during which time more than 100 ex-
plosions in states scattered from Mass
achusetts to California occurred IN
works under construction by employ
ers of nOn-union labor.
Fifty-four men were indicted last
February, but John J. McCray, Wheel-
ing. w. Va. never has been located and
the Mcnamara brothers are in prison
in California.
arrest of the men now before federal
Judge a. 3. Anderson was begun shortly
after the capture OF the Mcnamara
brothers and Ortie McManigal, charged
with blowing up the Los Angeles Times.
McManiGaI Accuses High Officials,
McManigars confession involved the
officers OF the International ASSOCIATION
of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
He charged that president Ryan Of the
association, Herbert S. Hockin, OF De
troit, second vice president and acting
secretary treasurer. and John T Butler
VI
of the campaign against the open shop
which resulted in a long chain OF
dynamite outrages.
An Investigation was at once begun
by federal district attorney Chas- w
Miller to substantiate these charges
The officers of the association were put
under surveillance, dictagraphS, those
mechanical eaVesdrOpperS of modern
science, were placed in the homes of
the suspected men and secret service
agents in all parts of the country be-
gan to trace the movements OF Nc
Manigal and Mcnamara with view of
aScertaining with whom they conferred
in their travels
In the September 1911 raid upon the
offices of the International Association
Of bridge and structural iron workers
in Indianapolis over 10000 letters were
obtained. These papers together with
McManigaIS testimony were submitted
to the October federal grand jury which
was chosen to conduct the invest atIOn
in Indianapolis. The papers were said
to have shown under what circum-
stances McManigal was induced to start
into the dynamiting business against
open shop contractors, and also to
throw light upon the $1,000 a month
allowed Mcnamara for organizing pur-
poses
After a six weeks session the grand
jury adjourned until January. when the
case was again taken up by the grand
jurors. By this time secret service
agents had compiled a mass of evidence
which involved 81 prominent labor men
in almost every city of size in the
United States. Indictments were hand
ed down during the early part of Feb
ruary of this year and on the 18th of
the month wholesale arrests were made.
The men were arraigned before judge
a. B. Anderson in the federal court of
Indianapolis on March 18th, where they
pleaded mot guilty" to the indictments,
and were released on bail aggregating
$40, 900. The leaders were held in
$4,000 bail each and the minor
officials of the union in $4,000 bail each.