Evening star., 1912-11-22
BANTzRESGNS POST DYNAMITE HIS LOOT
Assistant Treasurer of United McManiga Says Mcnamara
States Steps Down. Was Pleased With Theft.
ACTION FOLLOWS REQUEST USED ON NON-UNION JOBS
Attitude Harmony With Wreckers Busy Despite the Aivi
Macveagh It Is Said ties of Detectives. "A
c.. PIERCE SUCCEED TELLS OF WORK IN THE WEST
Be "Stuf"
Auxiliary Plant n
McManigaI Says Mcnamara
Was Pleased With Theft.
USED ON N0N-UNI0N JOBS
Wreckers Busy Despite the Activi-
ties of Detectives. -
TELLS OF WORK IN THE WEST
Union Officials Planned to Put More
"Stuff" Under Los Angeles Times
Auxiliary Plant. n

! INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. November o.
| Stealing 200 pounds Of dynamite, hiding
1t in a shed at Tiffin, Ohio and then in
suit cases. transporting it ION passenger
trains to Indianapolis, was an experience
related by Orte E. McManigal at the,
dynamite conspiracy" trial today.
| 1t was the explosive used by McMani-
4 gal and the McNamaras after the Los
| Angeles Times explosion. and by which
! ten non-union Jobs were blown up in
| spite of the fact. the witness said, that
/ detectives for two months had been on
1 the trail of the dynamiteTs.
Confident that the agitation over the
| Los Angeles explosions would blow
over and that James B. Mcnamara
would be free to do more '.jobs." Nc
| Manigal added, plans were begun in
January, 1911. to carry on the dynamite
campaign with zest.
McNamara Pleased.
| when / reported to ]. ]. Mcnamara
| how easy 1t had been to steal the dyna-
mite from a stone quarry at Bloomville.
Ohio. and store it in my fathers shed at
| Tiffin he was pleased" said McManigal.
II brought him several suit cases OF
/ dynamite as a sample and he locked IL up
| in a vault at the Office OF the Interna-
tional Association Of Bridge and Struc-
| tural Ironworkers. J. j. said he would
| send James B. over to help me carry II.
| We brought 1t in such quantities that J.
| j. said he couldn't store II all at the
| ironworkers office. We had about 1900
| pounds.
| 1T was decided to rent barn. We
rented barn in West Washington street
| in Indianapolis. owned by Daniel Jones.
Jones helped US get piano box. barrels
| and sawdust. in which We packed the ex-
plosive. We told him we were storing
some old letters, but l took care to ask
whether any children played about the
| barn.
-. J. ordered us to cut off all the
trade marks on the dynamite stocks be-,
cause, he said. 1t had been a mistake to
leave the trade marks on the dynamite
purchased at San Francisco for the Los
Angeles job
i Having the new supply of explosive.
McManigal said, J. j. arranged to send
the dynamiters out on jobs.
Equipped with twelve quarts of nitro
glycerin, McManigal went to Los An
geles. Cal. in December, 1911, commits
stoned to destroy the Times auxiliary
plant and by adding a few more to the
list Of dead" to take suspicion OF James
B. Mcnamara, who had killed twenty
!, one person in the wreck of the Times
building two months before, he testined
McManigal named men other than the
McNamaras as having inspired the sec,
ond Los Angeles dynamite plot. He SAID
he was prevented from carrying 1t OUT
by the discovery on reaching Los Angeles
that the auxiliary plant was too weh
stead. he set a bomb in all iron works
plant to explode Christmas day.
Was Christmas Present.
That was the Christmas present Olaf
Tyeitmoe. a labor union official In San
Francisco. had asked for. and on his re-
turn east he stopped off at Labor Temple
in San Francisco and on Tveitmoe's being
absent he left this message with Eugene
| A. Clancy:
:4Teii Tveitmoe his Christmas present
has been delivered.
It was the same christmas present.
the government charges, which Tveitmoe
later referred to in letter to Frank Nj.
RYAN, president of the Iron Workers IN
ternational Union.
On his return to indianapolis McMani-
gal said he was called down by John
j. Mcnamara because not enough dam
age had been done at Los Angeles ana
John j. proposed to send to Los Angeles
by express bombs SO regulated that they
would explode when unwrapped. put NC
Manigal protested. saying the explosions
might occur on the train and XIII lnno-
| cent people.
| McManigal and James B. had been
hiding In the Wisconsin woods, McMani-
| gal said like a pair of pirates, each with
, a red handkerchief about his head In
| conformity with the game laws. and a
) rifle over his shoulder. when number
of detectives appeared at their lodging
house. Eluding the delsctVeS they cdiho
to Indianapolis.
So elated was John J. Mcnamara over
| the escape of his brother that he propos-
ed that McManigal start at once Tor Los
Angeles.
..John J. said he had been to a labor
. convention at st. Louis and had seen
Tveitmoe there, and that Tveitmoe want
| ed some more explosions TO come on on
) the coast" said McManigal. James q.
said he would like to go out and do it.,
but J. j. objected, saying tney were
looking for a man of his description on
the coast, and it would be good IDEA Ior
stranger to 40 s,bIe tine }Ses and and then the tho tho
authorities would think their man was
!, still in Los Angeles
Three Explosions Slated. ]
"IJe said I was to cause three explosions
the Times auxiliary plant. the Baker
iron works and the Llewellyn iron works.
He said. Put a good mess Of it under the,
Times auxiliary and add a few more to
the LIST of dead They've been question:
ing Tveitmoe and Anton Johannsen out
there and we'll throw them off the track
He also told me to fix up some kind
of a suit case with bomb In IL so that
it would explode when anybody opened
it He remembered how the bombs at
Gen. Otis and Mr.. Zeehandlaar's houses
on the morning of the Times explosion had
failed to work and the evidence was in
the hands of the authorities. He wanted
/
| any of my bombs there would not be
much Of the bombs left after they were
Heavy Guards Placed.
II left Indianapolis with twelve quarts
of nitroglycern December 8. going by
way Of Chicago, Salt Lake City and Og-
dem Four days later l arrived in Los
Angeles and had buried the explosive in
a gravel pit near the river. L looked
| over the three places l was to blow up
and saw that all but the Lewellyn iron
| works were too heavily guarded Christ
mas eve, going into the Lewellyn
grounds, a dynamite cap exploded and in
iured my hand. That put me out OF
humor. So 1 placed the twelve quarts
ali in one shot and set 1t for o'clock
the next morning
| .sThen I went to San Francisco and
] later back to Indianapolis. When
| reached Indianapolis in January, John
| 7. his brother and met in closed room
i at the ironworkerS headquarters. John
]. was all ruffied up because had not
done more damage He said I had spent
too much money to do 50 little damage"
Edward Smythe and James e. Ray,
! ironworkers' union omcials at Peoria,
| ILL.,, who were arrested three days ago
i after their bondsmen had surrendered
them, had failed to secure new bonds OF
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