Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-08

| lndlandpOllS, oct. Pages from
the careers of the McNamaras and
Ortie z. Mechanical as leaders of
| THE flying squadron of dynamiters, :"
| with conversations in which they were
| said TO have plotted to send McMan-
| igal to Panama to blow up the locks
| of the Panama canal, were read by
| District Attorney Charles W. Miller,
| before the jury at the trial of The
accused Dynamite conspirators," to-
day.
| The incident in reference to Pan
anna, Mr.. Miller said, occurred just
| before the arrest of the Los Angeles
| dynamiters, when they were becoming
| desperate in their efforts to secure
| explosives without betraying their
| Identities. John j. called James b.
! Mcnamara, his brother. and McMan-
| isal to the headquarters of the In
| ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers., said Mr..
| Miller. John j. said to McManigal
| We can't get any more dynamite
| around here without stealing it. Now
you go to Panama apd see what you
can do down there. The MeClintie
Marshall Construction Co. has lot
could easily get hold of 1t and blow
| up the locks. That would make 'em
sit up and take notice and take their
minds eff the Los Angeles affair." Me
ManigaI refused to go at that time.
Soon after they all We're arrested"
The contractor mentioned had de-
clared for the open shop"
Edward Clark. Cincinnati, former
president of the local Iron Workers
Union. changed his plea from Not
guilty" to guilty, today. and was lock-
ed up.
Olaf Tveitmoe of San Francisco.
| not on trial, was accused in the gov
ernments statement to the jury of
having been the Protector of the
dynamiters ON the Pacific coast. who
pointed out how the Los Angeles
Times building and the Llewellyn Iron
Works We're to be blown up. who
wanted the Baker Iron Works and the
Times auxiliary plant blown up and,
who promised to the dynamiters that
his tTveitmoe's) friendship with
Mayor Mccarthy of San Francisco
would insure protection from the po-
lice. Tveitmoe was then editor of a
trade paper and secretary of the
Building Trades Council of California
Events duplicating the present defend
ants, as charged by Mr.. Miller before
the jury, were as follows:
W. Bert Brown, the business agent of
a local union at Kansas City, Mo-, James
b. Mcnamara and "a citizen whose
name was not divulged, in August, 1910
had a conference about blowing up a ST.
100000 bridge being constructed by an
employer of non-union labor across the
Missouri river at Kansas City Pre-
viously negotiations had been conducted
by Brown and William j. McGan. also
business agent at Kansas City, with the
iron workers headquarters in Indianap-
oils
james B. offered to employ the cit
izenn regularly. saying: There's lots Of
money in ii. We're going to Los An
geles and blow the whole town to hell
We have unlimited money back of us
and If we ever get in trouble we'll have
the best lawyers that money can buy"
The citizen did not go into the deal On
August p McManigal after being three
days in Kansas City. placed 70 quarts of
nitro glyeerine beneath the understruc-
ture of the bridge. The explosions did
|
McManigal had replaced the weak bat
teries on the bomb-tmers with stronger
ones.
Meantime James B. had gone TO ar
range for the Los Angeles Times expIo-
sion, after accomplishing which and hid
ing for two weeks in Salt Lake City, he
returned East, being met in Nebraska
by Frank Eckhoff of Cincinnati with a
message from John B. James B. said /:
Il have been keeping pretty low. If
could get by for five years like ]. E.
Munsey in Salt Lake, they'd forget
about the Los Angeles affair. Coming
| back on the train everybody was read
ing about the Los Angeles Times disas-
ter and | thought everyone was looking
at me. That's what made me get off at
| Salt Lake
| James B. and McManigal then went
into the woods of Wisconsin to hide
The next month. at the Iron Workers
convention in st. Louis, Tveitmoe had a
talk with John j., saying it was all right
ION the Pacific coast and they wanted
some Christmas presents in the shape
iof blowing up the Llewellyn Iron Works
the Baker Iron Works and the Times
auxiliary. Mechanical returned to Indian
apolis. John j. told him of what Tveit-
moe had said.
1T will be great thing while the are
looking for the other fellows to have
leight or 10 more of them out there by
somebody they never saw" said John ]
ito McManigal. mo one knows you, and
you can slip in and do the jobs. But
ldon't use nitro glycerine. 1t is not as
safe as dynamite and you don't have &c
be so careful Tell the old man tmean-
ing Tveitmoe) he'll get his Christmas
present. He told me his friend. Mayor
Mccarthy, controls the police force and
Iwe'll be protected
After the Llewellyn Iron Works explo-