Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-11-30

Namara, oynamiter of the Los An
aeles Times building, was not ar
rested until five months after hi
identity became known were put b,
attorneys for the defense at the "dy
Mantle conspiracy trial today to Ray
mond J. Burns, son of the detective
who managed the arrest.
Raymond Burns had testified that
he had learned of McNamara's guilt
en- November 2. 1910, one month ane
one day after twentyore persons
were killed at Los Angeles and thai
on November S his operatives got in
personal touch with the dynamiter
afterwards "shadowing' him for i
month in the Wisconsin woods.
The arrest followed on April 2
1911.
you say you knew early in Novem-
ber Ihat the man in the Wisconsin
woods shadowed by your men was
the dynamiter of the Times building.
Why didn't you arrest Mcnamara
right there and then?' asked Attorney
fildhl NJ f1aFdlnge.
because we were trying to get the
men really responsible for the expo-
sion,' answered the witness.
"You mean men higher up in the
union?'
ives, sir"
you say you knew at the time that
Ortie E. McManigaI caused expIo-
sions at Peoria. Why didn't you ar
rest McManicaI"
For the same reason. We were
after the men higher up"
Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 30.-Threats
OF death for telling about explosions
We're related by Mrs. Alta NJ, Hawk
ms at the dynamite conspiracy"
trial today. Mrs Hawkins, attended
by nurse and suffering from in iur,
les received in a recent shooting,
was carried into court on a cot. Mrs.
Hawkins testified that a few days be-
fore explosions caused a loss Of $15,-
0Oo on the property Of Albert Won
SpTeckelsen in indianapolis in
1909 she was told by Ernest G. w
Basey, an Iron Workers union Off
cial, that something was going to
happen or jobs where non-union
workers were employed.
He told me to look in the newspa-
pers the next day and read about it,
said Mrs. Hawkins.
In the papers | saw nothing. Then
he told me it did not come off that
night, but to watch the next night |
did and about midnight heard the ex-
plosion. Basey called me up on the
telephone and told me | must keep my
mouth shut He said if | didn't |
would be killing
The witness said she was shot sev-
eral weeks ago while hunting
Raymond J. Burns. who sald he
knew the identity Of the Los Angeles !
Times dynamiter five months before
the arrest, told today of more CONVEX
sation, he said he had had with Her /
bert hockin, the indicted secretary
OF the lronworEers' union. Burns de-
scribed Iiockin as spy" within the I;
ranks of the union officials.
IN February 1911 Hockin again
met me in Chicago" said Burns. Il
inquired for details about the Los
Angeles explosion. Hockin said he
had learned that Olaf A. Tveitinoe OF
San Francisco was paying money to
NJ A. Schmidt through Ed Nockles, a
union official in Chicago. Tveitmoe
himself was taking care of David
Caplan. Caplan and Schmidt were
the ones who, Hockin said had help
ed J. B, Mcnamara blow up the
Times building"
Raymond Burns also described
"shadowing" J. B. Mcnamara and
McManigal to Toledo and Detroit,
where he, with three other detectives
arrested the dynamiters on April II,
1911
when Hockin told you Tveitmoe
and Anton .Johansen We're planning to
blow up w. j. Burns in San Francis
co or Seattle by putting bomb in
his room, did iiockin tell you the
source of his information asked At
torney VIM n. Harding for the de-
Tense
"Hockin told me he had learned
from J. J. Mcnamara that they were
planning to get rid of w. j. Burns on
the Pacific coast. w. j. was then still
on the coast investigating the Times
explosion"
Burns next related how he lost"
who meantime had caused
another explosion at Los Angeles and
how James b. Mcnamara had cover
ed up his tracks. Afterwards the wit
ness said the trail led to the offices
of the Ironwovkers and detectives for
weeks watched who connected with" |
j. j. Mcnamara.
Guy Biddnger, who, as a Chicago =,