The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
Says They Plotted to Send McManigal to Panama
 Canal Zone
CLARK CHANGES HIS
 PLEA TO GUILTY
Tyeitmoe, Charged With Protecting McNamaras on the Pacific Coast, Wanted "Christmas Presents"
 in Shape of Explosions

Indianapolis. October Pages from | careers of the MeNamaras and ortie E. McManigaL as leaders of @the flying squadron of dynamit7 CTS" with conversations In which they were said to have plotted to send Me- Manigal to Panama to blow up the locks of the Panama canal, were read by Dis trct Attorney Charles W. Miller before the jury at the trial of the accused dynamite conspirators" today.
 | The incident in reference to Panama. | MT. Miller said occurred just before the arrest of the Los Angeles dynamlters. when they were becoming desperate in their efforts to secure explosives with out hetraying their identities.
 John J. called James B. McNamara | his brother, and McManit al to the head quarters of the international Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, said Mr. Miller. John ]. said to McMan igal. We can't get any more dynamite around here without stealing 1t. Now, | you go to Panama and see what you can do down there The MeClintic-Marshall | Construction company has a lot of dyna- mite stored down there. You could cas- fly get hold of 1t and blow up the locks. That would make 'om sit up and take notice and take their minds off the Los Angeles affair. McManigal refused to go at that time Soon after they all we're arrested"
 The contractor mentioned was one of those who had declared for the "opcn shop in the United States
 Clark Pleads Guilty
 Other developments of day were.
 Edward Clark Cincinnati, former president of the local iron workers. changed his plea from mot guilty" to 1 guilty and was locked up pending sem tence
 olaf Teeitmoe, San Francisco. now on trial. was accused in the governments statement to the jury as having been the .proteotor" of the dynamiters on the Pacific coast, who pointed out how ihe Los Angeles Times building aud the Leweilyn Iron Works wdfN ts ee blown uf'. who wantea the HaSer lspn Works and the Times auxiliary pis.sll 4 blown up and who promised to tie ldynamlters that his tTveitmoe,s) friendship with r. H. Mccarthy, then mayor of San Francisco, would Insure protection from the police. Tveitmos was then editor of n trade paper, and secretary of the Building Trades eonn- cil of California. Mccarthy recently was in Indianapolis.
 Events duplicating the present de- fendants, as charged by Mir Miller be- fore the jury. were as follows w Bert Brown, then business agent of local union at Kansas City, Mo. James B. McNamara and citizen, whose name was not diyulged, fin Au- gust, 1910, had conference about blowing up a si.500.000 bridge, being constructed by an employer of nom union labor, across the Missouri river, at Kansas City. Previously negotia- tions had been conducted by Brown and William J. Mccain. also business agent at Kansas City. with the iron workers headquarters in Indianapolis. l James B. offered to employ the 'sciti- zen regularly saying There's lots of money in it. We're going to Los An gees and blow the whole town to hell. l We have unlimited money back of us and if ever get in trouble. we'll have the best lawyers that money can buy The citizen did not go Into the deal. On August 22, McManigal, after being three days in Kansas City. placed 12 quarts of nitro o-glycerine, divided in three 4-quart pint cans, beneoth the lunderstructure of the bridge. The ex- plosions did not occur until the next day, and after MeManigal had replaced the weak batteries on the bomb timers with stronger ones. Part of the cans were recovered by the government.
 Hid in Utah
 | Meantime James B. had gone to arrange | for the Los Angeles Times explosion, aft | CT accomplishing which and hiding for l two weeks fin Salt Lake City, he returned east. being met in Nebraska by Frana Eckhoff of Cincinnati, with a message from John J.. James B. said: rI have been keeping pretty low. If 1 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 every .1t | Times disaster, and thought every one | was looking at me. That's what made me get off at Salt Lake James B. and Meslanigal then went hunting in the woods of Wisconsin to hide.
 The next month at the iron workers convention in St. Louis. Tveitmoe had T talk with ]. J.. saying fl was all right | on the Pacific coast. and they wanted some Christmas presents in the shape of blowing up the Lewellyn Iron works. the Baker Iron works, and the Times auxiliary McManiEal returned to Tn- dianapols.
 John J. told him of what Tveitmoe had said. Tt will be e great thing while they are looking for the other fellows to have eight or ten more of them out there by somebody they never saw !, said John J. to McManigai No one knows you, and you can slip in and do 1 the jobs But don't use nitroglyceren. l It isn't as safe as dynamite, and you | don't have to be careful. Tell the | old man dneaning Tveitmoel, he'll get his Christmas presents. He told me his | friend, Mayor Mccarthy. controls the | police force and we'll be protected l After the Lewellyn works explosion on ! December 9. J, J. wrote to Eugene A. | Clancy of San Francisco. "Tell the old | man his Christmas present has been de- | livered," and Tveitmoe wrote letter to J. J. concluding, Trusting Santa Claus | will be as generous to you with surprises and presents of the seasons as he has 10 us in the Golden Etate.'
 Other Unionr Implicated
 Charles against Clarence F. Dowd | Rochester, N. F.. Charles Wachmeister Detroit. Frank J. Murphy. Detroit; Will liam K. Benson, now of East Golway | N. F.; Sturgeon r. Meadows. Indianapo- lis. and Hiram Cline. Munce, Ind. in- voiving unions other than the iron work CTS, were outlined by the district attor- ney. He said it would be shown that they all met in Detroit in 1911. Ito have n wholesale blowing up." but that J. B. Me- Namara hesitated about the jobs. be --------~~--~-~--~>---~~--~
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