The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-11-28
EXPLOSIONS AvERTED
BY TIMELY ARRESTS
Alleged Conspirators Plotted to
Destroy Panama Canal Locks
Sought to Murder Girl.

H-HrEH gr~HE. EhASN1r HEEHaM MsAenHIr@&&E
indianapolis, Ind. Nov. 26.-Wit.
hesses at the dynamite conspiracy
trial today testified concerning "whole~
sale explosions which the McNamaras
were alleged to have contemplated, but
which were prevented by the arrest OF
the dynamiters at Detroit and Indian
apolis in April, 1911. The explosions
contemplated. as told by witnesses
We're.
To blow up the locks of the Panama
canal.
To blow4up a building in Pittsburgh
contractors who employed
men, and also to blow up offices by
other eastern cities.
To blow up the aqueduct and water
works at Los Angeles.
To blow up a sleeping car to get rid
of a stenographer formerly employed
by the iron workers union she
knew too much.
'Ill blow the whole town off the
map; the people will think there has
been another earthquake similar to San
Francisco's,' said j.. B. Mcnamara, dis
cussing the campaign he expected to
make at Los Angeles, according to
Ortie e. McManigal.
Sought Girls Life.
An assertion by McManigal that he
was urged to go to Panama by j. j.
Mcnamara as a dynamiter previously
had been referred to by District Attor-
ney Miller, as one of the revelations to
be made at the trial.
Plans to blow up the Frick building
in Pittsburgh. to blow up other build
ings in eastern cities where open
shop" iron and steel contractors nae
q sleeping car in order to kill Miss
Mary C. Dye. a stenographer, were
: described by Lindsey l.. Jewell at the
dynamite conspiracy" trial today as
having been revealed to him by Her
bert S. Hockin. Jewell testified that
Hockin said that ]. B. Mcnamara
planned to cause the eastern explosion
after agitation over the Los Angeles
Times disaster had blown over"
Hockin Opposed Murder.
when was it Hockin first disclosed
to you information about explosions
Jewell was asked by Senator Kern, for
the defense.
He told me he was opposed to the
wholesale murder being planned n
3 got me to promise I would never re-
veal the source OF my information. He
told me President Ryan knew nothing
of the plots to murder That was Nc
Namara's scheme.
after Hockin told me who blew up
the Times building, l promised him If
he ever got into trouble / would see
that after he got out he would get a
position paying $4,000 a year for two
years. When Hockin began to report
to Burns. Burns assumed that obliga-
ton TO Hockin."
''Did Hockin tell you J. B. McNa-
mara was planning to blow UP a whole
sleeping car full of persons in order to
kill Miss Dye because she knew too
much?' asked District Attorney Miller.
Hockin Reported to Burns.
~ fEV - t-.-H = -
wholesale murder and that the Frick
building was to be blown up with other
buildings in the east in which were
officers of non-union labor employees"
Jewell also repeated statements that
Hockin reported to Burns direct within
a month after the Times explosion, tell
ing Burns that the ~dynamiters We're on
a hunting trip in the Wisconsin woods.
1t was because of JEWELS testimony
that Judge Anderson increased Hook
ms bond from $4,000 to 10000, int de-
fault of which he was in custody of a
deputy marshal at the trial today.
Nc action YVES taken by the court on
the governments motion to increase the
bonds of six more of the defendants.
.'Hockin told me-" testified Jewel.
that before the Los Angeles explosion
he had overheard a conversation be-
tween j. j. Mcnamara and President
Lynch of the International Typograph-
ical union, in which they talked about
an explosion on the Pacific coast, and
in which Mcnamara said to Lynch: L
can get the man who has the nerve if
you get the money Hockin also told
me that the McNamaras caused the
Los Angeles explosion for the money
there was in it."
United States Senator John w. Kern
was among the ounsel for the defense
who disavowed an article published by
some of the defendants. The 45 men
accused by the government of com
plicity in the Mcnamara dynamite
plots by abetting for four or five years
in the illegal transportation of explo-
sives sat in silence while the testimony