The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-12
OF THE
OYNAMN|MG CASE
CONTINUED from. Page II.

July 4. 1910. The witness said he was
to have done the lob" but Smith
insisted 1t had been promised to some
one else. s,. 49,.
"They didn't know how to use the
alarm clock arrangement we had for
setting off bombs" said Mechanical.
80 I was sent to Chicago to forward
one hundred. feet of. fuse by. special
delivery. 1t arrived, in, time and the
Akron job was blown up July 4.
o my going again to Indianapo-
lis j. j. Mcnamara said he had talk
ed to President Frank M. Ryan. Of the
Iron Workers union, about Hockin
holding out part OF my pay for each
job. Mcnamara said $500 a job had
been set aside by the union and here
after I would work directly. under
him. He said he just had received
a letter from Frank c.. Webb. Of New
York asking to send me to blow up
a Phoenix bridge company job at
Greenville. near Jersey City. I was
to return by way Of Pittsburgh and
look over the McKees Rocks job and
also by way of Scranton. Pa, and get
in touch with Michael j. Harmon, 10.
cal business agent. McNamara told
he was no sure Of Harmon yet.
Webb met me in Jersey City and
took me out to: show me what to
blow up. While I surveyed. the job,
he stood back. saying the workmen
knew him around there. That night
after waiting two hours to learn that
the Waterman made a round. only
once an hour I placed two bombs in
some Orders after midnight July 8.
In the morning I saw Webb. with a
newspaper giving an account Of the
fexplosion.
ION the way back I. stopped at
Scranton but didn't see Harmon. At
Pittsburgh I bought a dozen alarm
KEGS Rocks Job; e':f'
when I got back to indianapolis,
Mcnamara was talking to his brother,
James B.. who said he had received
a telegram from Clancy at San Fran
cisco and that he (James B:) was
going to the coast. ] j. said to his
brother, look up Clancy as soon as
you arrive and he'll put you in touch
with the bunch and the old man,
ION the way to ChicaEp where I
left him. ]. B. said that he expected
to be three months on the coast. that
they wanted some one TO go out and
Angeles, that they had had a couple
Of fellows working out there but they
didn't have any results. Later I re-
ceived a telegram from J. B.. dated
at Seattle.
II went to Omaha. and on July 81
blew up a job there with eight quarts
of nitroglycerin. / knew the explo-
sions occurred for I heard It while
waiting for a. Chicago train at. the
station half a mile away. -
~. ]. wanted to know when I re-
turned to Indianapolis why I had not
caused two EXPLOSIONS N: the job. I
told him a. Waterman and d dog were
following me around and I didn't take
any chances. I was afraid the dog
would scent me out In the dark.
~ j.. gave me fourteen quarts more
and told me to go to Milwaukee and
get in touch with William =. Reddin
and then to do the job at Superior.
Wis. I went to Milwaukee and buried
six quarts on West Wells street. There
/ met Rcddin telling him the MilwAu-
kee job didn't have enough, material
on 1t to blow up yet but he should
let ]. j. know when the material arr
rived. ] blew up the Superior Job on
August 1. t.;,+ .
IT took a Duluth newspaper account
Of the explosion back to ]. J.. but he
said he had beaten me to 1t for Fred
Mooney at Duluth had written him
a letter thanking him for sending a
real dynamiter up there"