Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-15
JAMES 3. McNAMARA'S
DETAILED CONFESSION
Continued from Page Nine.)


with a. hunting party in charge of
Marion Sharpe. That very day he
said, John j. Mcnamara, brother of
the Los Angeles Times dynamiter,
asked him to take James b. on the
hunting trip. Mechanical said he had
learneds that James b. had been in
hiding on the way back from the Pa
cific coast, and was two weeks with
J. E. Munsey in Salt Lake City. He
said hes went to Kenosha and James
d. joined him there. They procured
hunting licenses and went with the
party TO Conover, and then to a camp
five miles in the country
ION Nov, g." said Manigal, 81 missed
James B. and started out alone to look
for some deer Standing on a tree
stump | suddenly heard the crack OF a
pistol but, looking around, saw no one.
Everyone was supposed to wear a red
cap to distinguish him from deer / saw
no red cap, but presently | saw James
b. Suspicion flashed into my mind
accused him right out.
~ think you We're taking a shot at
me- ! said If you do you had better
be quick about it. This is a fine place
up here to get rid of a man--just shoot
him and the coyotes will eat up his
body
HE replied he just did II to scare me.
Then we being alone for the first time,
he sat down and told me about the Los
Angeles job. He said when he went o
the coast in July he got in touch with
Tvetmoe and Clancy. according to In
struetions from his brother at the head
quarters of the Iron Workers Union, In
dianapolis Tveitmoe and Clancy. he
said, put Captain and Schmidt at his
disposal because they had been working
for the California Building Trades Coun-
ell Schmitt was too much of talker,
he said, and when he blew up Job in
Oakland, Aug. 20. he made Schmitt stay
in San Francisco. When he returned to
San Francisco Schmitt was waiting for
him and on the strength of the fact that
the bombs had been set in Oakland went
to see Tveitmoe and got $500 from him
that night j. B. said he also did the
Seattle job, Aug. 81.
Leading up to the Los Angeles eX-
plosion. ]. r. said he found you could
get all the money you wanted on the
coast. He said Tveitmoe was the big
paymaster. and there never was anything
TO fear, for Tveitmoe was a friend of
Mayor Mccarthy and. in fact, Tve'tmoe
was the mayor of San Francisco. He
said Schmtt had a scheme to set off
bombs by chemicals which he had learn
ed from friend of Tveitmoe's, but when
he edcNamara) showed them the alarm
clock scheme they all decided it was
best. Schmitt and ]. 3. went TO Los
Angeles and looked over the Llewellyn
to- TIs
plants and the Times Building. J. B. sent
back to his brother a post card on which
was partly written and partly printed:
1T now reads The Times for the News
IT will soon read The News for the
Times
II asked him why he went after the
Times. He answered Tveltmoe had put
him onto it.
Then he told me about how difficult
ii was out there to buy explosives.
how they decided at last to get a lunch
and buy nitro-geletin from powder
concern on the representation that II
was to be used for blowing up stumps
on n ranch how he sent his man to ar
range for buying the explosive. He said
tho clerk at the powder company re-
ported they did not make any explo-
sive that strong. He told me how at
last he got 500 pounds of the explosive
on the launch, after changing the name
of the launch and how, when they got
in the bay they attracted the atten-
ton of other vessels because the
launch wouldn't make any Roadway
ana got in the way of others.
HE said when his stuff was ready
to take to Los Angeles he had talk
with Tveitmoe telling him either he or
Schmitt would have to do the job
alone, rot both of them for Schmitt
was too much of a talker and had Il
woman friend in Los Angeles that he
(McNamara) didn't want to get mixed
nr in the job.
Then he told me how he had set the
bomb in what is known as Ink alley
in the Times plant among some ink
barrels End old papers. Going in, he
said. he was stopped by the night
Waterman. who asked him what he
wanted in there. He replied that he
was going to the composing room. The
Waterman let him pass. He was again
stopped)py a boy, but he also told the
boy he was going to the composing
room. The boy directed him to a door
or a stairway, ! think he said. He
reached the basement and while pass
ing through it took off gas jet.
asked him why did YOU break off the
gas jet?' He replied Because. | wanted
the whole building to go to hell. said
I was surprised he would do it knowing
there were so many people in the
building. He answered: What's the diff
ference | was to make good cleaning
out end ] did it Then he thought for
a While and added, But | am sorry
there were so many people. l wanted
to get Gen. Otis.
He told me he put the Internal ma
chimes at the residences of Gen. Har-
rison Gray Otis. proprietor of the
Times and of Felix j. Zeenhandlaar,
secretary of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers Association, all to go off at
] O'Clock in the morning. He said on
his way back East he was frightened
by the people talking of the explosion
he said he couldn't bear to look any
body in the face and he thought every
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