New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17
.M'NAMARA PLOTTED
TO BLOW Up GIRL
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filed. weighing about fifty pounds each.
Looking In one OF the boxes, with a cigar
in my mouth. / pulled out one stick IN
the opened box. thinking Il was a candle
! was smoking, and | knocked the stick
against the box 10 sec what IL was
Presently / noticed the sticks were
marked "Ntrogelatin, so per cent" That
was enough for me. / said Good night,
and ran TO tell the police.
Mrs. Lena Ingersoll. who said she
now lived at Victoria. B. c., testified
that on September 1. a month before
the Los ngeles explosion, she rented
room in her San Francisco fiat TO
Mcnamara, who used the .lias ]. b.
Brice. Later Mcnamara was visited
by Schmidt, who was described as
having a "squinty left eye, or a glass
eve" Schmidt, also known as Schmitt
or "Schmidty," lived at the home OF
Mrs. LAWN. a friend OF Mrs. Ingersolls.
II was IN this way that Mcnamara was
directed where 70 rent a room.
on September II Mcnamara left Mrs.
Ingersolls and went to hotel From
the hotel. as testified by a telephone
operator. most Of the calls were made
10 the powder company for the pur-
chase Of the explosive and 10 the own
ers Of the launch In Oakland. Mrs
Ingerscl said she did not again see
Mcnamara until the night OF October
/. adding:
About II o'clock that night he came 10
the house and wanted me 10 give him
room / said | could make no arrange
ueuts AT that hour. Then he begged me
10 allow him 70 sleep on "A sola, saylhs
he would give me the rent OF the nat
Tor a whole month. declined, and ne
left on the following night he called
on the telephone and wanted 10 come,
and / again refused. That was the last
! saw Of him until after his arrest
Miss Ethel Gin, a telephone operator
in the san Francisco hotel, Identified
records Of calls by Mcnamara to the
powder company and to the launch
owners.
Wanted Powder for Stumps.
About the middle Of September Bruce
Mccall. employe OF a powder company,
testified that he received a telephone
call from the "Brice Construction Com
pany," inquiring about the purchase OF
, five hundred pounds OF high explosive,
to be used to blow up stumps on a
ranch. He continued:
| told the caller that 20 per cent was
strong enough for that but he insisted
he wanted 30 per cent nitrogeaun. | re-
Piled we only made II 50 per cent, but
we didn't have IL IN stock. a man called
and left an order for 800 pounds and paid
the BIZ. He gave his name and left a
rural address, saying he would call and
get II In launcn.
Two days after the launch vas rent
ed, Mccall testified, Brice, or Bryson.
called on the telephone and said he
would go In a launch to Giant Station.
down the bay, to get the explosive. The
witness went on:
told him he would have 10 come TO
the office and get n written order and
I would have 10 know about the launcn.
lie sent up a man later described as
David Caplan. This man PROGRESSED not 70
know anything about the launch and had
10 go TO Oakland 10 flnd out; When he
returned / gave him an order FOR the
delivery TO him OF 800 pounds OF so per
cent
Frank D. Carroll, police detective OF
Los Angeles. testified about the condi-
ton OF the wrecked Times Building
when he arrived there at I:30 a. m. He
also described the contents OF a bomb
found on the premises Of Felix j. Zee
handlaar. 1t contained 1917 sticks OF
the explosive, a dynamite cap, fuse,
battery and clock.
Jewelry store employees testified that
alarm clocks used by the Mcnamara
brothers and McManigal in the manu-
facture OF bombs were purchased in
such quantities as to arouse suspicion.
McManigal had confessed that when he
bought clocks he pretended he gave
them to farmers.