The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-02

j. E. Munsey, Salt Lake City
| tab, former business agent; name,
in indictment also as Jack Bright,
who is alleged to have harbored ]
u. Mcnamara after the Los Angelo
| disaster.
Michael j. Harmon. Scranton, Pa.
former business agent,
John r. Carroll, Syracuse. N, Y.
local union.
Edward E. Phillips. Syracuse. N
Y, local union.
William Dewnhardt, Cincinnati
former financial secretary loca
union.
Fred Mooney, Duluth. Mimi, for.
mer financial secretary local union
James E. Ray. Peoria, ILL.,, former
president local union.
VIM. Shupe. Chicago. former bus
mess agent.
James ocughlin. Chicago, /former
business agent.
Frank ]. Higgins. Boston. New
England organizer in 1910.
Charles Wachtmeister, Detroit,
former business agent.
Ernest G. w Basey, indianapolis,
former business agent.
Frank J. Murphy Detroit, former
business agent.
NJ. H. Davis, West Chester, Pa,
fOrTnare ayapIttfya hoard
George Anderson, Cleveland. BUSH
ness agent, a
Olaf A. Tveitmoe secretary of
Building Trades Council of Cali
fornia.
William X, Benson, Detroit, for
mer president of local federation OF
labor.
Clarence E Dowd, Detroit, former
organizer international Association
Of Machinists.
Fred Sherman, Indianapolis, for
mer business agent ironworkers.
Sturgeon P. Meadows, Indianapo-
lis, business agent of the Association
Of Carpenters and Joiners union.
Hiram Cline, Muncie, Ind, organ
izer for carpenters.
Ortie E. McManigal, confessed
aynamiter and accomplish of the Nc
Namaras, held a prisoner as chief
witness for the government.
John ]. Mcnamara. secretary of
the ironworkers now prisoner in
san Quentin prison, California, on
his pleas Of guilty in having blown
gp the Llewellyn iron works in Los
Angeles on Christmas day, 1912.
James B. Mcnamara, his brother.
also in the same prison, on his plea
Of guilty for having blown up the
Los Angeles Times building, at 1907
a. m, October /, 1910, when twenty
one persons were killed
Although ffty-four men were In
iieted, only ffty-one of them were
to appear for trial, because the Nc
Namaras already are in prison and
McCray never has been located
since the indictments were returned
last February
Chronology of the alleged dyna-
mite conspiracy:
Summer 1905, first explosion. rail-
road bridge, Miller's Fall, Mass,
thirteen sticks of dynamite discov-
cred
1905-1910, almost one hundred
explosions in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut, New York, Maryland, 1lli-
nois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri,
Nebraska and western states.
Oct. /, 1910, Los Angeles Times
blown up, twenty-one per-
sons killed
Dec 25, 1910, Llewellyn iron
works. Los Angeles, blown up.
April 10, 1911, James y ~
Namara and Ortie E. McManigal ar
rested at Detroit
April %, 1911, John ]. Mcnamara,
secretary-treasurer of International
Bridge and Structural ironworkers,
arrested at his office in Indianapolis.
Dec. /, 1911, McNamaras plead
guilty at Los Angeles, John ]. to
murder in the first degree in blow
ing up the Los Angeles Times build
ing, and James B. to having blown
up the LlewellyE iron works Both
sentenced later.
February s, 1912, Federal grand
Jury at indianapolis, returns thirty
Two indictments, charging fifty-fouh
men with having participated in a
illegally to transport dyn.
amite.
Feb. IA, almost all the defendants
arrested within few hours at a sig
nal, telegraphed to many parts Of
the country.