New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-20
Told Barber He Might Have
Made Barrels of Money
at Los Angeles.
HAD BOMB FOR CATHEDRAL
Witness Was Told the Explo-
sions Were to Compel Con-
tractors to Employ
Union Men.

Indianapolis, NOV. ls.-LaOor CoHuiuoho
in Kansas City. Mo-, in which w. Bert
Brown, business agent of local iron
workers union, is alleged to have con-
spired with James B. Mcnamara 10 have
a bridge across the Missouri River blown
ND and to induce a barber to do dynamit-
ing at Los Angeles were described at the
dynamite conspiracy" trial to-day.
Charles Brown, who had been referred
10 by the government as a citizen with
important evidence" testified he became
acquainted with Mcnamara In a barber
shop. and later, having met the dynamiter
on the Pacific Coast, Mcnamara loaned
him $50 with which TO return TO Kansas
City.
Mcnamara told me he could fix II so I
might earn lots of money" said the wit
ness. He said lot OF non-union Jobs
were to be blown up and there would be
work in Kansas City. lie introduced me
to Bert Brown, and said he would pay
me 500 to blow up the bridge Brown said
it was an open shop job and they wanted
TO make the contractor put on union men.
| asked Brown why he didn't do 1t, and
outside the union, because union men
would be suspected. Mcnamara said he
would see that | got the 500 from Brown,
and then / was TO 20 TO Los Angeles.
where there would be a lot OF cleaning
up. | was interested In an amusement
enterprise then, and, after putting them
off. finally told them wouldn't do IT,"
The witness said the last conversation
occurred in August, 1910. shortly before
Ortie +. McManigaI, according to his con-
fcssion. blew up the bridge.
Might Have Made Barrels Of Money.
After the explosion / met Bert Brown
on the street and told him / read in the
newspapers that he and William j. Nc
| Cain. another union official, had been ar
rested. Brown replied they could not
prove anything and added ] made mis-
take in refusing TO do the job as might
have made barrel OF money at Los
| Angeles"
! Did Mcnamara tell you in Browns
presence that you were to blow up Jobs
| in Los Angeles?" asked the District At
| torney.
Yes he told me in Browns presence
| that after / blew up the bridge I was TO
| blow up a building in Kansas City and
| then | was TO go TO Los Angeles" The
witness said IL was arranged for him to
pay to Brown the $50 he borrowed from
| Mcnamara.
Eugene 4. Clancy Of San Francisco,
and John J. Mcnamara talked about
| blowing up a cathedral In course OF con-
! .,r,,rtG,,, g., TrdGara,olIs according IN tha
testimony Of Patrick J. Dugan, former
J ironworkor's business agent. Dugan said
| he accompanied Mcnamara and Clancy
when they went out 10 look AT the cathe-
/ dral, and aftcr Mcnamara had pointed out
a place 20 put the explosive Clancy meas-
| ured of with hts feet to learn whether n
wall would fall on a nearby residence, but
| the explosion did not occur
Edward Smythe and James +. Ray. OF
| Peoria, Ill. two OF the forty-iive defend
ants, were taken 10 Jail tonight because
! their bondsmen haG surrendered them. IT
was said the mem would procure new
! bonds tomorrow.
| Testimony was G1ven that Smythe at
| tempted to conceal evidence In connection
with an explosion at Peoria on Septcm-
Der l. 1910 McMangal had been notified
that Smythe had assisted him in carry
ing nitroglycerine 10 the Job When the
government examined the register OF the
hotel where McManigal had stopped UNI
der the name -. w McGraw" the page
containing the registration was torn out.
]. w Murphy, the hotelkeeper. testified
that shortly after the explosion Smythe
called at the hotel and asked TO see the
register. explaining that McGraw had
been an administrator Of an estate and
absconded with money. The hotel man
said he permitted Smythe TO have the
register, and later he found the page
was torn out.
The government read from the irJn-
workers union magazine a letter from
Smythe. alleged to refer TO the Peoria
explosion as follows:
II thought II about time TO let the
members at large know that Local ii2 is
still on top OF the earth. Halley's comet
passed through here on time"
After the constructor agreed to use
union men. Jesse Smith testified Hockin
said:
you may take your guards off the job.
There will be no further explosions