Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-02
Gives in Detail His Pu-
suit Of the Dynamiters.
Chased McNamaras and Nc
ManigaI for Several Months.
Sec. HockIn Of Iron Workers Union
Betrayed His Friends.

indianapolis, Dee. william j.
Burns story of his pursuit of the RE
Namaras and Ortie E. MeManigal, aft
er the Los Angeles Times explo zion
was teld by him, Saturday. at the "dy-
Mantle conspiracy" trial.
At the time of the explosion on Oct.
/. 1910, he said, he was on train from
San Francisco to Los Angeles and the
next day he, as detective Wac en-
ployed by Mayor Alexander Of Los.
Angeles to run down the dynamitcrs
He remained on the Pacific csast uauf
the latter part of December when he
returned to Chicago In Chicago he
said, he met Herbert g. Hoekin. now
secretary of the Iron Workers Unien.
Hockin is accused by the government
of having betrayed the dynarnitsrs
while he himself was dynaIniter.
ffr. Burns in substance testified:
"Hockin told me he would not have
met me e it were not for the fact
that the dynanliters were going to do
a lot of killing. He said John ]. Nc
Nanara, then secretary of the union.
had employed James b. McNamara
and MeManigal to kill as many peo-
pie as possible to bring about the re-
suit he hoped for. told Hockin he
ives late with his information. as l
knew all the facts already. Then /
asked him where he got his nforma-
ton that people on the Pacific coast
were going to blow me up.
He said Olaf A. Tvietmoe of San
Francisco was looking after the plot.
I told him l believed Tveiitn,ae would
do il IL ne had a chance, for had
opposed Tveitmoe in the San Francis
co graft investigation and I had sent
my son Raymond to Minnesota To get
photograph of Tveitmoe in the PEN
itentiary uniform and had it publish
ed in San Francisco.
II asked Hockin If 1t wasn't true that
every member of the iron workers exec
utive board knew about the explosions
He said neither they nor President Frank
NJ Ryan knew what John j., did. except
perhaps Eugene A. Clancy oil San Fran
cisco. / told him it wasn't possible for
money to be appropriated every moHth
for Mcnamara without others higher up
knowing Of It, told Hockin = sproposed
to get the men higher up didn't want
merely local men He said John J. was
the man I wanted.
II offered to pay Hockin to come into
my employ, but he said he werlo accspt
only his expenses. told him at that
time Los Angeles had ceased to pay men
and now had not only to fight dynamite
ers, but also class OF men opposed to
civic deceney in San Francisco.
IT told him on the day after the Los
Angeles explosion I had informed Mayor
Alexander that John j. MoNamara and
Tveitmoe were behind the explosion.
impressed him with the fact that ] didn't
want to arrest John ]. and James 3. and
depend on their making confessions and
I was afraid to watch j.. J. At Indianap-
oils too much as they might learn OF It
and the whole thing would blow up
Questioned by Senator J. W.. Kern for
the defence about securing NeAanigafs
first confession In Chicago shortly after
the arrests, Burns Was asker:
Ibid McManigai impiicate smother one!
Anyone besides the McNamsrasy'
He mentioned only Michael J. Young
of Boston, in connection wits the explo-
sion at Springfield, Mass, and he imph-
Gated Hockin as h=-:ag procured nitro
glycerine and as having employed "A
to blow up q building In Detroit