Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-30

Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 29.--Five
months and six days was fixed by wit
nesses at the Dynamite conspiracy
trial, today, as the time it required
to arrest James B. Mcnamara, dyna-
inter of the Los Angeles Times build
ing, in which 81 persons We're killed,
after the dynamite had been pointed
out to detectives.
The substance of the testimony as
to dates was: On Nov. 2, 1910, one
month and one day after the Los An
geles explosion in hotel lobby in Chi
cago, Herbert S. Hockin, secretary
of the Iron Workers Union and ae-
cused "Betrayer" of the dynamiters,
gave to Raymond ]. Burns, son of the
detective. who finally made the arrests,
a full description of Mcnamara and
Ortie McManigal.
On Nov. S, at railroad station in
Chicago. Raymond Burns to his de-
tectives pointed out McManigal who
was leaving for a hunting trip near
Conoyer Wis, and instructed the de-
tectives to follow.
Nov. 6, at Kenosha, Wis, Detectives
William J. Otis and BENJAMIN F. Da-
mon found McManigal had been joined
by Mcnamara, who, under the alias of
Frank Sullivan" accompanied a
hunting party to Conover, where, from
Nov. s to Dec. s. the detective "shad
owed" the dynamiters by talking to
them in camp and observing them
through field glasses Finally McNa-
mara and McManigal returned to Chi
cago on a train, on which there were
no detectives.
In January, 1911, Raymond Burns
met Hockin in Chicago and asked him
the whereabouts of McManigal, who,
in the meantime, had been to Los An
geles and caused an explosion there in
the Llewellyn Iron Works.
James b. Mcnamara and MeManigal
were arrested, April II, 1911, and John
]. Mcnamara was arrested, April %,
1911. Ten explosions occurred between
December, 1910, and the time of the
arrests. Raymond Burns said he had
received information from Lindsey
Jewell, then in Pittsburg. who testi-
fed that Hockin, two months before
the Los Angeles explosion, had given
the locations of hiding places for ex-
plosives. Jewell was going to Panama
as an engineer and had urged Hochin
to report to Burns.
Otis and Damon testified about fol-
lowing the dynamiters to Conover
hunting camp.
when you were following them
around camp, didn't you know what
they were suspected of" was asked
Damon by the defence. Il had no ill.,
| formation as to what they were want
| ed foi, but / had an idea" replied Da-
mon.
You We're just obeying orders to re-
| port on their doings?" That's ALL
| you weren't ordered to make any
| arrests at that time?" No"
| AS the youngest witness yet to testify,
| Miss Cleo Bird, IA years old, picked out
| from the As defendants at the dynamite
! conspiracy trial, today. two men whom
! she said she saw shortly before an ex-
| plosion at North Randall, Ohio, March
| rs. 1911 In that explosion an ore con-
veyor was blown UP by nitro-glycerine
with $4,000 damage.
The little witness, CARRIED in a pink
| dress. claimed the high witness chair
| and, looking toward the accused bomb
plotters," told her story. She said with
her sister she was going along lonely
road toward her home at North Randall
"It was just before dark she said
ION the road we met the men who were
carrying a box between them The mer
were coming toward Randall from the
direction of Cleveland. One of them hat
a funny face"
"A funny face?" asked District Attor
ney Miller. "Do you see him in th'
court room?'
Eyes, that's him. replied Miss Beard
pointing to George Anderson, Cleveland
defendant. Hes the one that carried
the box. And there's another one" sh,
added. pointing to Peter j. Smith, Cleye
land. I'VE hadn't been home more thai