The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-11-23
PLAN TO
BLOW UP BURNS
McManigaI Says J. B. Nc.
Namara Proposed Bomb
knew THEY WERE WATCHED
lie Explained How Non-Union Work
Was Dynamited During Conspiracy
Trial.

lie Explained How Non-Union Work
Was Dynamited During Conspiracy
Trial.
indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 24.-Explo.
sions on non-union work in Milwaukee,
Wis; Omaha, Neb., and Springfield,
Mass, were explained by Ortie E. Nc
Manigal at the dynamite conspiracy
trial as having been done by him
shortly before he and James B. McNa.
mara, arriving in Detroit to ~"clean up
that city, we're arrested with suit
cases filled with dynamite.
For weeks before his arrest, he tes'
titled, he had observed that he was
being followed and had seen strange
heads lodging around the corners OF
elevator shafts in the iron workers
Headquarters in indianapolis.
Il told James B. before we started
for Detroit that William J. Burns had
detectives after us; that detectives
were even coming up near the vault
where we stored the dynamite, and
that one of them followed me when
was going with a suit case of dyna'
mite to blow up the South Chicago
job" said MECHANICAL.
"McNamara said If we saw any more
of them we would go to Chicago and
rent a room next to Burns office, pu,
an electric wire through the wall and
arrange to set off from our room
bomb in Burns desk when he was sit
ting there. That would make an end
of our troubles with him, he said.
told him I didn't think we would dc
anything of the kind or ever get neal
Burns"
That was about April 5, 1911, Nc
Manigal said. He and Mcnamara Were
arrested seven days later.
For blowing up an unloading hoist
and damaging a steamer near the
docks at Milwaukee on March 16, with
a loss of $4,000, McManigal said he
received the compliments of John j
Mcnamara, "for the best job he evel
did"
When he destroyed part of the
Douglas county court house at Omaha
on March "a, he said he was "called
down" because he did not cause the
explosion to occur at exactly the same
hour James B. blew up job at Co
lumbus, Ind, a telegraph signal hav
ing been arranged to send word, when
he was ready, to John at Indianapolis
At John ]. McNamara's instructions
Mechanical said, he went to Spring
field, Mass, and there met Michael J.
Young, the union official at Boston
who pointed out tower in a group o1
municipal buildings he wanted blown
up.
Il put two bombs in the tower on
April and took a train for Utica, N
Y. Then I went to Rochester; N. Y.
and bought dozen alarm clocks tc
be used in making bombs"
Mechanical told the story of finding
his little girl in the kitchen. Of his
home playing with eighty-one pound
sticks of dynamite which he had left
to thaw.
The dynamiter testified that he and
James B. Mcnamara had gone to Chi
cago to blow up non-union work in
South Chicago, In February, 1911, but
they found the dynamite frozen. At
James BIS suggestion he put the dy-
Mantle on radiator and went to look
over the proposed job. When he re-
turned, he said, his little daughter was
on the floor with the dynamite and
James B. was testing battery.
"J. B. laughed when he saw my lit
tie girl toying with the explosive, .
said Mechanical. "He said, Tell papa
what that is My little girl replied:
why, it's dynamite. know it won't
hurt me- and kept on playing. The
way J. B. laughed made me mad and
I ordered him out of the house."