Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-11-15
Dynamiter Tells Of How James
B, Mcnamara Confessed to
Him Blowing Up Of Times
BuiIding in Los Angeles,
HE WANTED TO KILL
GENERAL H. G. OTIS
Trial of Alleged Conspratofs
Develops Dramatic Story of
Crime Unparalleled in Amer
ican History,

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NV Morning journal Special reas.n wiz. i,
Indianapolis, Ind. NOV. 14-For
the first time since sthc twenty -one
persons were killed in the blowing up
of the Los Angeles Times building ON
October l, 1870 James H. McNa-
mara's detailed confession to having
causcd the explosion, with his mo-
tives for doing il and his comments
on the fact that SO MANY persons
were killed, was related on the wit
ness stand in the dynamite conspir-
acy" trial today.
/ OrticN +. McManigal testified that
the confession was given to him while
he was hiding with Mcnamara in the
woods five miles from Conover WIS,
both of them having gone to the Wis
consn woods on the pretext of being
hunters
OLAF A Tveitmoe ana Eugene A.
Clancy, san Francisco labor leaders,
MeManigal testified. were named by
Mcnamara as having made arrange
ments for the Los Angeles explosion
and az having furnished the two men
r. a. Schmidt and David Caplan-
to assist in buying the high power nj
troglycerin because Schmidt ana Cap
Ian had been regularly employed on
the coast by the building trades
council of California.
Tvcitmoe ana Clancy are among
the forty-fiye defendants.
capan and schmidt named by Me
Manigal, were indicted in Los Angeles
county with james B. Mcnamara on
charges Of murder but they never
have been captured. Government
agents have been informed that CAP
Ian was killed.
when he asked Mcnamara why he
twisted OFF a gas jet in the basement
of the Times building before the ex-
piosion, McManigal testified that this
conversation ensuod
McMnnigal why did you break
off the gas jet
McNamara--''B Because when the ex-
plosion occurred | wanted the whole
to 60 to he'll"
McManiga And you knew there
were SO many people in there. too2'
McNamara--"W What's the differ
cnce2 ! was to make a good clean
ing out and | did 1t. hut | am sorry
So many were killed. hoped tc get
General Otis
McManigal said that on November
!, 1910, he was AZ his home in Chi
cago and expected to leave the next
day for Kenosha. WIS. when he WAS
to start with a hunting party IN
charge Of Marion sharpe. That very
day he said, John J. Mcnamara,
brother of the Los Angeles Times dy ,
namiter asked him to take james 4. :
IN the hunting trip. McManlgal said
ne had learned that James Il. had
,een in hiding on the way back from
he Pacific coast and was two weeks
With j. T. Munsey in salt Lake Cily
He said he went to kenosha ana
lanes T.. joined him there. They
procured hunting license and went !
With the party to Conover ard then
o camp five miles in the country "
"On November 9th" said McMani-
al, II missed James p. and started
ut alone to look for some deer. !,
tanding on tree stump, ! suddenly -
card the crack Of pistol, but look -
~ around saw no one. Everyone =
as supposed a. wear "A red cap toI :,
istinguish people from deer. saw
. red cap. but presently ! saw James !,
Suspicion flashed into my mind ~
accused him right out -
~ think you were taking II shot o,
me- I said If YOU do you had y,
stter be quick about it, This is a m
ne place up here to get rid Of a az
an--just shoot him and the coyotes "
i'll eat up his body
He replied he Just did it to scare ~
c. Then. we being alone for the tn
rst time. he sat down and told me q
,out the Los Angeles job. He said IL
hen he went TO the coast in July he
1t into touch with Tveitmoe and nd
ancy. according to instructions from Of
s brother, at the headquarters OF a.
e. iron workers union in Indianap- pa
IS. Tveitmoe and Clancy. he said, pa
1t Caplan and Schmidt at his dis an
'sal, because they had been work fr,
Z for the california building trades mi
uneil. schmidt was too much of a
lker he said. and when he blew up lOr
job in Oakland, August goth. hei II
ade schmidt stay In san Francisco
When he returned to san Fran
co. schmidt was waiting for him
Il on the strength Of the fact that
G bombs had been set off la oak
nj. went tn see Tveitmoc and got 90
90 from him that night J. y. said '"i
also did the Seattle job, August PEI
ST.
Leading up To the Los Angeles cx- s."
'sion. J. u. said he found yon could ~"
all the money you wanted on the the
ist. He said Tveitmoe was the big not
and there never was any tes
ng To fear for TYeitmoe was a ALT
end Of Mayor McCarty. and in fact SUI