El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-22
IDENTIFIES CHECKS
DRAWN BY MCNAMARA
BOOkkeeper for Iron Workers in Testi-
mOny Says Two Separate Ac-
counts Were Kent.

Indianapolis. Ind, Oct. 22.-Checks
were identified by Miss Mary G. Dye at
the dynamite conspiracy trial as hav-
ing been issued 10 various defendants
out of the funds of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers.
Miss Dye, who was bOOkl1eeper for
j. J. Mcnamara, secretary of the union
when he was conducting a dynamite
campaign, testified that many checks
made payable to Eugene A Clancy, san
vance to Clancy The government
charges the money was used to pro-
mote explosions.
The check book. containing thou
sands of stubs, was only one of the
zoo exhibits which the government
was required TO identify before the
examination of Ortie Z. McAlanigal
and other important witnesses
She pointed out from the books
checks issued to Frank c. Webb, New
York, which she said were credited
advance to Webb" in the book kept
Tor the executive board, but charged
to organizing purposes" in the union
magazine. Accounts of money paid to
Herbert S. HOckin. the witness said,
were recorded in the same fashion.
The government charged that Webb
and HOckin used the money to pay ex-
penses Of explosions, and members Of
the executive board were aware Of this
use.
Miss Dyes testimony was that
y
was in force prior to 1903, or until
the executive board decided TO allow
Mcnamara $1,000 a month without re-
curing any accounting, which con-
tinued until after the Los Angeles
Times building wasI blown up 1t was
out of this $1,000 a month the govern
ment charges that Mcnamara paid
Ortie E. MCManigaI and James B. Nc
Namara for the Pacific coast eXplOs-
ions and for So other explosions.
The defendants named nv witnesses
as having been members of the execu-
tive board who We're COgnizant Of the
use to which the money was put, were
Frank NJ Ryan, president of the
union; John T Butler, Buffalo first
wee president Eugene A. Clancy, san
Francisco; Henry W. LegIeitner, Dem
yer; Frank Q. Webb, New York: Mich
ael J. Young, Boston, and Herbert S.
Hockin, present secretary They are
among the As men now on trial
charged with Illegally transporting
explosives by aiding and abetting.
Reports Deceived Unions.
Miss Dye testified that in the books
available to the officers the full
amounts paid to Mcnamara, Hockin,
Webb and others were given, but in
the records published in the union
magazine less than half the amounts
were charged to the individuals while
the difference was charged to "emer-
Sency fund" by order of the executive
board. The witness said that for the
1lscaI year ending in 1909 S3,69S was
paid to Webb, while S1,572 was re-
corded IN McNamara's report to the
union; S4,940 as paid to HOcIin, while
Sz,O43 was reported to the union; and
SZ,551 was paid to J. J. Mcnamara,
while $l98l as reported to the union
as having been paid to him.
Altogether the government alleges
tnat $ZOOOO was represented in aggre-
gate differences and was used for
Oynamlung purposes.
The witness said that prior to the
monthly allowances to Mcnamara
funds were charged up as donations to
various unions or as advances to va
rlous officials, without any later
showing as to the disposition of the
money.
Tell of Explosions.
When the government began calling
IOremen OF Jobs where explosions Oc-
Cured, United States senator J. w
Kern, counsel for the 90 defendants. OBJ
Jected on the ground that details of ex-
ploSlons were not material to the gov
efnments charges Of Illegal interstate
Shipment OF explosives District attOr-
ney Charles W Miller held that the evil
dence was relevant as tending to show
a motive
Judge Anderson Overruled the Objec-
ton and also Overruled another Cbjec-
ton that some of the overt acts as
charged were eliminated by the statute
of limitations.
any overt act tending to show a con-
spiracy is competent" said judge An
derson
W. NJ. Little, superintendent Of a
construction company which built
structures in Cleveland, O.. in 1907, told
Of the dynamiting of a bridge on Parma
road near Cleveland, on December 81,
that year, and of a viaduct at Mill
Creek, in Cleveland, the same night
Little said after the explosion he found
II sticks of dynamite in a suit case at
Mil N Creek and also some. dynamite at
the Parma road bridge which had failed
to explode. He said his firm had been
working on an open shop basis.
ROBERT BARR DIES IN LONDON.