The Cairo bulletin., 1912-11-17
TEN WITNESSES
| RELATE WORK OF
il N'NANARA
One Tells How He Rented
House and Room in San
Francisco.
STORE HIGH EXPLOSIVES
Cincinnati AIDE Says He
Asked Money to Keep
Mum.
STORE HIGH EXPLOSIVES
Associated Press Dispatch.

| Associated Press Dispatch,
i indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 1G.--Inci-
dents of James 3. McNamara's prep
arations to blow up the Los Angeles
Times building In the wreck OF
(which twenty cne persons were
killed, were Blended into dramatic
story ty@ten witnesses from Cali
Ffornla at. the dynamite conspiracy"
trial today.
How the dynamiters rented a fur
nished room In Mrs. Lena Ingersolls
| fiat in San Francisco, how he got in
tonch with r. A. Smith and David
Capian, his alleged aecomplices.
How he called up from the fla. to
procure the gasoline launch Pastime
| and to buy 500 pounds of nitro-gly-
cerine, and how, after fixing the Los
Angeles Times explosion to occur at
] a. M on Oct. /, 1919, he returned
| to San Francisco at il o'clock that
night, begged Mrs. Ingersoll to let
him stay there. Offering full
months rent, were detailed by per-
sons who had dealings with Me-
Namara,
Landlord Testifes.
1 JarreS c. 0'Hrien told how a cof-.
tage owned by him In the southern
part of San Francisco had been rent
| cd before the Los Angeles explosion
and how, when several weeks later
cottage was not occupied found ten
boxes Of nitro-glycerine locked in the
parlor
O'Brien said in his ignorance OF
what the boxes contained he looked
Into one box with lighted cigar in
his mouth and, thinking the ex-
plosives were candles, knocked
stick against the block.
A Los Angeles detective related
what ne saw when he arrived at the
site of the Times building.
1 Another development of the day
was an admission by Frank Eekhoff.
of Cincinnati, that hs aided in the
escape and concealment of Mcnamara
after the latter was returning east.
He also admitted having demanded
money from the McNamaras to
keeping his mouth slut"
Mrs. Ingersol said on Sept. I.
month before the Los Angeles ex-
plosion, she rented room to Nc
Namara, who used the alias, J. B.
Bryce. Later Mcnamara was visited
by Schmidt. who lived at the home
Of friend of Mrs. Ingersoll. IL
was in this way that Mcnamara was
directed where to rent room.
Hello Girl on Stand.
Miss Ethel Dill. a telephone oper-
ator in San Francisco hotel, identi-
fled records of calls by Mcnamara to
the powder company and to launch
owners.
| James G. OBrien and August
Micklo told ot renting a San Fran
cisco cottage, N which the explosive
was stored,
Several weeks later passing the
4 house | thought 1t was queer that the
people had not moved in said
O'Brien, the owner II had KEY
|, and entered and noticed that all of
: the rooms were empty but the front
room was locked. Opening that
, saw ten boxes covered with a tar
lpaulin One of the boxes was
, opened, but the others We're filled.
, weighing about fifty pounds each.
pulled out one stick in the open box.
thinking 1t was n candle. was
against the box to see what 1t was,
smoking and | knocked the stick
Presently | noticed that the sticks
were stamped nitro gelatine, 80 per
teent, That was enough for me.
| good night and ran to tell the
fpolice,"
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