New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-08
PLOT TO BLOW Up THE
PANAMA LOCKS CHARGED
McNamaras ConSpired to Send
McManigaI to Canal, Prose
CutOr Tells indianapolis Jury.
DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY
Edward Clark, Former Head OF
Cincinnati Iron Workers Union,
Admits He Is Culpable--
An Elk Mayor Mentioned.

indianapolis, oct. 7.-Pages from the
careers Of the McNamaras and Ortie i.
McManieal, as leaders OF "the flying
squadron Of dynamiters," with converse
tions in which they were said to have
plotted to send McManigal to Panama 10
blow up the locks of the Panama Canal
were read by Charles w. Miller, the
United States attorney, before the jury
at the trial Of the alleged dynamite con-
spiratoTs to-day.
The Panama incident. Mr.. Miller said,
occurred just before the arrest Of the
Los Angeles dynamiters, when they were
becoming desperate in their efforts 10
secure explosives without betraying their
Identities. He added:
John J. called James B. Mcnamara. his
BROTHER, and Mechanical TO the headquar-
tiers of the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers.
John j. said TO Mechanical: I'VE can't
get any more dynamite around here
without stealing it Now, you go to
Panama and see what you can do down
there The NcClintic-Marshall Construc-
ton Germany has Yo lot Go 81 Gy sY
hold Of il and blow up the locks. That
would make 'em sit up and take notice
and take their minds off the Los An
geles affair" Mechanical refused to go
at that time. Soon after they all were
arrested.
The contractor mentioned was one Of
those who had declared for the open shop
in the United States. Other developments
Of the day were:
One Man Pleads Guilty.
Edward Clark. of Cincinnati, ex-presi-
dent Of the local iron workers union,
changed his plea from not guilty TO
guilty and was locked up pending SEN
tence. Clark pleaded guilty to all the
charges-five counts in conspiracy and
fifty counts of being a principal 10 the
actual Illegal interstate shipments OF
dynamite and nitroglycerine.
Olaf A. Tveitmoe, of San Francisco,
now on trial. was accused in the govern
ments statement to the jury OF having
been the protector" of the dynamiters
on the Pacific Coast, who pointed out
how the Los Angeles Times Building and
the Llewellyn Iron Works were to be
blown up, who wanted the Baker Iron
Works and "The Times" auxiliary plant
blown up and who promised the dyna-
miters that his friendship with P. II.
Mccarthy, then Mayor Of San Francisco,
would insure protection from the police
Tveitmoe was then editor Of a trade
paper and secretary of the Building
Trades Council Of California Mccarthy
recently was in Indianapolis.
Events duplicating the epresent defend
ants. as charged by@ Mr.. Miller before the
jury. were as follows:
n. Bert Brown. then business agent Of
a local union at Kansas City, No. James
B. MacNamara and "a citizen" whose
name was not divulged, in August 1910.
had a conference about blowing up a
$15OO.0O0 bridge being constructed by an
employer of non-union labor across the
Missouri River at Kansas City. Pre-
viously, negotiations had been conducted
by Brown and William J. Mccain, also a
business agent at Kansas City, with the
ironworkers' headquarters in indianapolis.
Would "slow Up Los Angeles
James 3. offered to employ the "cld-
zen" regularly. saying: There's lots Of
money in 1t. We're going TO Los Angeles
and blow the whole town to hell. We
have unlimited money. back Of us, and IL
we ever get in trouble wen have the best
lawyers that money can buy" The citi-
zen did not go into the deal. On August
~ Mechanical after being three days in
Kansas City. placed twelve quarts Of
nitroglycerine, divided in three four-Quart
paint cans, beneath the understrueture Of
the bridge. The explosions did not occur
until the next day and after Mechanical
had replaced the weak batteries on the
bomb timers with stronger ones. Portions
of the cans were recovered by the gov
eminent.
Meantime, James p. had gone TO ar
range for the Los Angeles Times ex-
plosion. after accomplishing which, and
hiding for two weeks in Salt Lake City
he returned 10 the East being met in
Nebraska by Frank Eckhoff, of Cincin-
natl, with a message from John J. James
,. said: II nave been keeping pretty
low If could get by for five years. like
J. e. Munsey in Salt Lake, they'd forget
about the Los Angeles affair. Coming
back on the train everybody was reading
about the Los Angeles Times disaster
ind l thought every one was looking al
me. That's what made me get off at
Salt Lake" James p. and McManigal
then went hunting in the woods Of Wis
sonsin to hide.
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