Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-16
Superintendent of Powder
Company Told of Deliver
ing 500 Pounds Of Nitro
glycerine to Three Men.
HEAR CONFESSION
OF j. B. M'NAMARA
For the First Time Since
Blowing Up Of Los An
ems ,ssA1As Times Building the
s'eas r,sement Was Heard.

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 15.-Thc
Mcnamara brothers convicted OF caus-
ing the fatal Los Angeles Times ex.
plosion, determined after 1t to carry
on Campaign of terror"
B. McNamara had not been captured,
although months had elapsed they
began early in 1911 to steal dynamite
by the wagon load from stone quarry
according to witnesses in the adyna.
mite conspiracy trial today.
Nat France, owner and Earl M.
Adams, manager of quarry at Bloom.
field, Ohio, testified that 1900 pounds
of dynamite we're stolen from them.
Part of it was recovered in shed at
the home OF McManigal's father at
Tifin, Ohio.
he and James b. on instructions from
John J. Mcnamara, secretary OF the
iron workers union, had hauled away
the dynamite In wagon at night,
''because after the Los Angeles aff1ir
the McNamaras were designated to 90
dynamiting all over the country and
put the Hrectors' association outsAa4
4 business. "a 4, 4 9s:ysss III bill " sF
McNamara's purchase ,of 500
pounds of nitroglycerine with part Of
which he blew up the Los Angeles
Times building, was described at the
dynamite conspiracy" trial today BY
Geo. H. Phillips, assistant superlntend.
ent ofia powder company
Phillips testified that on September
%, 1910, seven days before the Los
Angeles explosion, he delivered to the
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wharf at Oakland, ten cases OF the ex-
plosive, each case weighing SO pounds
One of the men. said the witness. was
Nc Namara, another man with q bad
left eye," and the third looked like q
Mexican.
Phillips, who said the men loaded
and left, identified various receipts
and bills and wrappines from of the
explosive which had been exhibited
before the Los Angeles grand Jury
The witness said nine cases of The
nitroglycerine afterwards were recov-
ercd by the San Francisco police.
Frederick A. Behmk OF San Fran
cisco told Of having sold tarpaMlin to
David Caplan, one OF McNamara's ac-
completes, who Cooked like foreign
err The tarpaulin was used by the
dynamiters to cover the explosive.
Ortie E. McManigal's testimony was
Interrupted today to enable the gov
ernment to question other witnesses.
More than 100 witnesses, including
thirty from the Pacific coast, were In
waiting.
In his testimony SO far. McManigal
has named seventeen Of the forty-five
men now on trial for alleged illegal
shipment Of explosives as having as
sisted him in causing explosions or as
having led to him as knowing about
them.
Confessed In the Woods.
] For the first time since the twenty
one people were killed by the blowing
up Of the Los ANGELES Times building
on October !. 1910, James B. McNa-
mara's detailed confession to having
caused the explosion, with his motive
for doing 1t, and his comments on the
fact that so many people were killed,
was related on the witness stand in
the dynamite conspiracy" trial here.
Told Him In Wisconsin.
Ortie f. McManigal testified the
w.; hiding Mcnamara in the woods.
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them having gone to the Wisconsin
woods on the pretext Of being hunters.
Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene A.
Clancy, San Francisco labor leaders.
McManigal testified were named by
Mcnamara MS having made the ;.r-
rangements for the Los Angeles X *
plosion, and as having furnished the.
! two mem. A. Schmitt and David
Caplan--to assist in buying the high
] power nitro-gelatine, because Schmitt
and Caplan had been regularly en-
i ployed on the coast by the Building
i Trades council of California" Tveit-
moe and Clancy are among the forty
five defendants on trial Caplan and
Schmitt, named by McManigal, were
indicted in Los Angeles county With
James B. Mcnamara on charges of
murder. but they never have been
caught. Government agents have bean
informed that Caplan was killed.
j When he asked Mcnamara why he
twisted off a gas let In the basement
Of the Times building before the ex-
plosion, McManigal testified that Nc
Namara replied that he wanted the
whole building to 90 to hell" adding
90