Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-15
The Explosion
 al Los Angeles
HOW MCNAMARA BLEW UP THE
 TIMES BUILDING
IS TOLD BY McMANIGAL
Testifies That James B. MeNamara Gave Him the Details On Hunting Trip-Sorry He Did Not Get Otis.

1dVe nm tne DetallS On r1untin9 Trip-sorry He Did Not Get Otis. Indianapolis, Nov. 14-For the first time since the q persons were killed in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building on Oct. 1. 1910, James B. McNamara's detailed confession of having caused the explosion. with his motives for doing it, and his comments on the fact that so many people were killed, was related on the witness stand in the dynamite conspiracy trial today.
 Ortie E. McManigal testified the confession was given to him while he was hiding in the woods five miles from Conover, Wis, with McNamara, both of them having gone to the woods on the pretext of being hunters.
 Frisco Labor Leaders Involved.
 Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene L. Clancy, San Francisco labor leaders, 1 McManigal testified. were named by McNamara as having made arrange | ments for the Los Angeles explosion | and as having furnished the two men F. A. Schmitt and David Caplan- | to assist in buying the high power l nitro- -gelatine, because Schmitt and l Caplan had been regularly employed | on the coast by the building trades council of California.
 Tveitmoe and Clancy are among the i 45 defendants now on trial. Caplan and Schmitt, named by Mo Manigal, were indicted in Los Angeles county with James B. McNamara on I charges of murder, but they never have been captured. Government agents have been informed that Caplan was killed.
 Hoped to Kill General Otis. l When he asked McNamara why he 1 twisted off a gas jet in the basement | of the Times building before the ex- plosion, McManigal testified that this conversation ensued:
 | McManigal-"Why did you break off the gas jet?"
 1 McNamara-'Because when the ex- plosion occurred I wanted the whole l building to go to he'll"
 McManigal-"And you knew there was so many people in there, too?" l McNamara-"What' the difference I was to make a good cleaning out and I did it. But am sorry so many were killed. I hoped to get General l Otis."
 Took McNamara on Hunting Trip.
 McManigal said that on Nov. 5, 1910 he was at his home in Chicago an6 expected to leave the next day fol ! Kenosha, Wis, whence he was to star 1 with hunting party. That very day he said. John J. McNamara, brother oi ] the Los Angeles Times dynamiter i asked him to take James B. on tht hunting trip. McA1anigal said he haC learned that James B. had been iI hiding on the way back from the Pa, cific coast and was two weeks witt J. E. Munsey in Salt Lake City.
 He said he went to Kenosha and J B. hid him there. They procured hunting licenses and went with tht 1 party to Conover and then to a camI five miles in the country.
 Got Suspicious of McNamara.
 "On Nov. g." said McManigal, e missed James B.. and started ou alone to look for some deer. Standing on tree stump, I suddenly heard thu crack of a pistol, but, looking around saw no one. Everyone was supposed to wear a red cap to distinguish peO pie from deer. I saw no red cap, bu presently I saw James B. Suspicion flashed into my mind I accused hin right out. I think you were taking shot at me- said. If you do. you haC better be quick about it. This is { fine place up here to get rid of a mal -just shoot him and the coyotes vii eat up his body
 Told Him of Los Angeles Job.
 He replied he just did it to scar me. Then, we being alone for tn first time, he sat down and told m about the Los Angeles job. He sai, he went to the coast in July to get fl touch with Tvietmoe and Clancy, ac cording to instruction from hi brother at the headquarters of tn Iron Workers union in Indianapolis
 "Then he told me how he had SC the bomb in what is known as Inl alley in the Times plant among som
 ink barrels and old papers. Going ir he said, he was stopped by the nigh watchman, who asked him what h
 wanted in there. He replied he wa going to the composing room. Tn watchman let him pass. He was agai
 stopped by boy, but he also told tn
 boy he was going to the composin
 room. The boy directed him to a doc or a stairway, I think he said.
 Put Internal Machine at Otis Door.
 He reached the basement and whil passing through It took off a gas 1e I asked Why did you break off the ga
 jet" He replied Because l wante the whole building to go to he'll said I was> surprised he would do i , knowing there were so many people i , the building. He answered: What ! the difference? I was to make a goo cleaning out. and I did it. Then h thought for while and added: 'Bu am sorry there were so many peopl
 wanted to get General Otis
 He told me he put the 1nferns
 machines at the residences of Gel
 Harrison Gray Otis. proprietor of tn Times, and of Felix J. Zeehandlaa
 secretary of the Merchants and Man } ufacturers' association, all to go off z
 1 o'clock in the morning.
 Hid in Munsey's House. "He said on the way back east h 3 was frightened by the people talking } the explosion. He said he couldn bear to look anybody in the face an : he thought everyone on the train wa looking at him. At Salt Lake City ! could not stand 1t any longer. so | [ stepped off the train and got in touc e with J. B. Munsey. who hid him in h 8 house for two weeks"
 . Telling of other explosions, McMar igal testified that in September, 1s1 he was sent to Chicago, where 8 talked with William Shupe and Jamt
 Ceughlin, Iron Workers union official
 about a job to be blown up betwee
 Gary and Pine, Ind, but which he al l., not blow up because the job was nt
 properly located.
 : Wanted an Eastern Echo. ! He said after news of the Los Al