The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-28
Story of Free Destruction of Life and
Property as Told in Dynamiters' Trial

explosions were frequent that Nc.
Manigal said his relations with Hook
in were broken Oft because he discov-
cred Hockin had been keeping part
Of his pay About that same time
information about the dynamitcrs.
Edward SMythe. OF Peoria, Ill.,, also
was accused by McAIanigal as having
personally pointed out Jobs to be
blown up. A hotel keeper related
that after the explosion Smythe ex-
amined the hotel register. and later
the. page on which McManigal had
registered was found to be Torn out.
MECHANICAL said Smythe arranged to
60 TO II theater the night of the cx-
plosion and prove an alibi by keeping
the seat checks.
President Ryan Of the iron workers
union, and all the other defendants
the conspiracy through the writin OF
letters. Ryan's defense was that the
McNamaras and those who confessed
alone knew that Il ''dynamiting cam
paign" was being carried on, and
that the executive board members did
not know what Secretary Mcnamara
did with the $1,000 monthly appro-
priatcd for his use without his bs.
Ing required to give an accounting.
One Purpose in View.
Beyond doubt the testimony which
attracted keenest interest was that
which related to the blowing up of
the Los Angeles Times building. That
a man could deliberately buy 500
pounds Of high explosive with the
purpose only OF destroying property
gave unusual Zest to that part Of the
story.
Unrestricted by the court, the gov
eminent went into every available de-
tall OF James B. McNamara's activity
on the Pacific coast which was con-
s S,S essential to the charges hero.
me dynamiter's arrival in San Fran
cisco. after he left his brothers office
IN Indianapolis in July. 1910. his ac-
companyinE McManigal as far as Chi
cago. his sending back to Mechanical
a. postcard giving him greetings from
me far west. and saying. the best of
riends must part" the dynamiter's
meeting with Clancy in Seattle. his
taking. lessons" from an electrical
expert in Seattle in how to set off a
bomb by a spark instead of by a fuse,
mis- causing an explosion in Seattle,
ana MS return to San Francisco pre-
paratory to going to Los Angeles,
Many Relate Incidents.
a woman In San Francisco who
rented a room TO Mcnamara. a wom-
an who rented q room to Schmitd,
and another woman friend Of Captain,
telephone operators who connected
McNamara with the powder company
which sold him the ni%trogelatine, the
men from whom he, Schmidt and
Caplan rented the launch used to
carry the explosive; a clerk who sold
the aluminium letters by which the
name of the launch was diskuised: q
man who rented the house in which
the 500 pounds Of nitrogelatine was
stored IN San Francisco; a clerk in a
hotel In Los Angeles to whom Nc
Hamar bid good night at about Z
been set in link alley in the Timcs
building. and policemen who ran to
the wreck after the building was de-
stroyed and Mcnamara had fed, all
testified.
In connection with the explosion
the story OF William j. Burns was
given. His son. Raymond ]. Burns.
Namara and MECHANICAL pointed put
to them on Nov. 6, 1910. five months
and six days before the arrests were
made. In the meantime these dyna-
miters We're followed on a hunting
trip to- northern Wisconsin. but they
escaped the detectives and ten moro
explosion occurred. Burns said he
Had Many Explosions Planned.
McManigal testified, and others tes-
titled. that Hockin had said many
more explosions were planned Just
about the time Of the arrests Of the
dynamiters. These proposed plots
We're: To blow up the locks Of the
Panama canal: to blow up various
offices Of open shop" contractors
were located; to blow up many rail-
road bridges. and even to cause more
explosions on h Pacific coast.