The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

l the bomb. was printer Witnesses stated i that MeNamara afterwards expressed It. l tie regret that 21 people were killed, and' | in fact. expressed disappointment that he had not killed Gen Harrison Gray Ots, proprietor of the Times: that the dyna- hitter was sent to the coast at the solicl- i tation of Tveitmoe, a recognized union 1 labor leader, and that Tveitmoe furnished 1 David Caplan an M. A Schmidt, who i were also indicted for murder, but who never were captured.
 All the 100 explosions came in for of operations extended from Boston to Les Angeles.
 "Who Caused ExplosiOns?"
 Who caused those explosions?' was the question before the jury.
 Broadly the charges were that l. J.. MeNamara began them and thought them an effective means of fighting "open shop" contractors. Make the damage as heavy as possible" McManigal said all ways were his instructions. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property was said to have been destroyed. Finding the maintenance of a hired .dynamitng crew cost money, McNamara is alleged to have applied to the union for funds and in this way, the government charged, others became implicated. For instance, the government set out that the union executive board decided at last to allow McNamara $10O0 month, for which he would be required to give no accounting. Letters also were written which, the gov ernment asserted, showed certain busi- ness agents, recognizing the 'dynamit- ing crew. as a regular institution, sent word as to what jobs should be blown up. All the indicted officials were de- cared by their letters to be linked to- gether in guilt.
 That was the case the government. at the opening of the tria- asserted it had to place before the jury. It was stated that the trial, in the number of defend- ants, in the fact that the defendants were allied with labor unions, in the nationwide extent of the conspiracy and in it's ramifications, was unprece- dented McManigals confession, de- tailing 21 explosions which he said he personally caused, was scrutinized to determine in what minute particulars corroborative witnesses were needed.
 Witnesses Widely Scattered
 The witnesses came from almost every city. Dozens of them were brought from the Pacific coast to remain on the stand only a few minutes A curly-headed, dimple-c checked girl. garbed in a pink dress, was called from North Randall, O., to point out in the court room Peter J. Smith and George (Nippe) Anderson or Cleveland, as men she saw gong up q lonely road with a box shortly before an explosion at North Randall A mechanic came from Hawaii to tell of overhearing certain of the defendants discuss pro- posed explosions in Detroit. An engineer came from Panama to recount his expe-i- ences with Hockin. Men who drove livery wagons check boys in railway stations, who cared for suitcases, filled with in fernal machines, hotel clerks who book ed the McNamaras and McManigal for rooms, detectives, stenographers, con tractors who suffered from explosions, and telephone operators, all related pecemeal their knowledge of the defend ants conversations or movements, which the government undertook to weave into a completed story to show at once the individual guilt of each. and the collec- tive guilt of all the defendants.
 One by one the defendants heard the charges repeated against them.
 Tveitmoe heard his name mentioned often. He was accused as having fur nished Caplan and Schmidt to help blow up the Times" building He was named as having sent word to Me- Namara the month after the explosion that things were all right on the coast" and as having requested the dynamtcrs again be sent to Los Angeles, later &C., knowledging another explosion there on December 20, 1910. as "a Christmas pres ent.' McManigal said he called at Tveitmoes office in San Francisco, but met only Eugene A. Clancy there. An