The Washington herald., 1912-11-17
TIMES OUTRAGE
is RECOUNTED
witnesses Substantial Testi-
mOny of Mechanical. Re-
garding Dynamiting.

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 16.-Ths Los
Angeles Times disaster figured promi-
nently in the dynamite trial late this
afternoon.
Mrs. Lena Ingersoll, one of the most
important witnesses regarding the Times
case testified that early in September.
1910, a man giving his name as J. B.
Bryce, but whom she Identified as ].
B. Mcnamara, rented a room in her
fat in San Francisco. Shortly after
ward a man whom Bryce introduced to
her as Smitty, called. She learned that
Smitty was rooming at Belle L.Avine' 5
home and that he had sent Bryce to her
to rent the room.
September Il said the witness, J. B.
Mcnamara left her place. saying he was
going to stop at the Argonaut Hotel,
after he returned from a trip across the
bay. He left the telephone number with
heI.
About II o'clock on the night OF October
! Uhe Times having been dynamited at
G clock that morning. Bryce again ap-
peared at her fiat and wanted to rent
room. She said that her rooms were fill
ed but he insisted that he wanted to
stay there and offered to pay her. one
months rent if she would let him have
a room for the night. Because the room
she rented was occupied. and also be-
cause she did not like the anxiety he dis
played, she did not let him stay, she
said.
Telephone Operator TestIhes.
Miss Ethel Gill, a telephone operator at
the Argonaut Hotel in September, 1910,
identified the telephone records showing
calls made from the room occupied by J.
Il. Bryce.
John Stanley, who ran a boat house at
Alameda: Edward Baxter and J. D. Bur-
rows, owners of the launch Pastime, told
the story of the renting of the launch on
IS, 1910, by two men giving the
names Of J. B. Bryce and F. A. Perry q.
Il. Mcnamara and NJ. A. SchmidD. -
Perry deposited $500 as a guarantee. The
launch was returned September &c, 1910.
It was then observed that there were two
screw holes in the boat where its name
stood and a streak of fresh paint, indi-
eating that a name beard had been placed
above the name "Pastime."
H. NJ. Nutter, Of San Francisco, told of
selling on September %, 1910. aluminium
letters spelling the name Peerless" the
sale being made to the big man with the
glass eye. The fact that a launch at
sausalito had the name ''Pastime'' on 1t
one day and Peerless" the next had al
ready been testified TO by another witness
several days ago.
Tells of Selling Dynamite.
William Call, employed by the Giant
Company. told OF selling 500
pounds of gelatine to a man calling him.
self J. B. .Brysen The gelatine was de-
livered September %, said Call, a very
swarthy man looking like a foreigner ap-
pearing at the ONCE.
August Nicklo, OF San Francisco, rental
agent, testified that he rented a house
ing his name as William Cab, on Septem- |
Der 20, 1910
James OBrien, the owner of the |
house, created merriment in court as he |
described his experiences when he found |
ten boxes OF dynamite IN the house.
On Sunday. October 16, 1910, he said he |
entered the house and looked around. In |
he parlor he found ten boxes, each COW |
ered with burlap and a canvas tarpaulin |
thrown over the whole stack. The bur-
ap was torn OF corner of one of the
If what looked like candles packed IN
Iawdust, he said. gr
He said he was smoking a cigar and |
hat he reached in. took out one of the
ticks, knocked it on a corner of the box,
md then examined il more closely. He /
Jaw on It 80 per cent gelatin"
"I said good night and got out OF |
here" said o. Brien. He notiffed the
,olice authorities.
Describes Times Explosion,
Frank D. Carroll. Los Angeles cityi
Effective, testified concerning the Times,
explosion, the killing of twenty-one per-
on. and the finding Of suit cases with
ynamite and Internal machines in them
1 the home of Harrison Grey Otis,
wner OF the Times, and Felix Zee
secretary of the Merchants
nd Manufacturers Association. He was
n the stand. when court adjourned
Frank Eckhon. Cincinnati core maker,
eighbor and close friend of the Nc
iamara brothers. testified earlier in the
ay that J.. B. Mcnamara tried to get I
I'm to bloE upya bridge In Cincinnati
nd at another time suggested that he