Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-11-17

launch was disguised by the name.
Peerless. The keeper OF the boat
house. after the Times explosion. no
ticed that nails had been driven
about the launch's name and paint
had been applied. although on its re-
turn the craft bore its original name.
About the middle of September,
Bruce Mccall. an employe of pow
der company, testified he received a
telephone call from the Bryce Con-
struction Company" inuuiring about
the purchase of 500 pounds of high
explosive, to be used to blow up
stupms on ranch.
II told the caller that 20 per cent
was strong enough for that" said
Mccall. but he insisted he wanted
80 per cent nitrogelatin replied
we only made it so per cent but that
we did not have 1t In stock. A man
called and left an order for 500
pounds and paid the bill He gave
his name ana left a rural address.
saying he would call and get it in a
launch"
Two days after the launch was
rented" Mccall testified. Bryce. or
Bryson. called on the phone and said
he would go in launch to Giant
station, down the bay to get the ex-
plosive.
II told him he would have to come
to the office and get a written order.
and | would have to know about the
launch. He sent mp a man later de-
scribed as David Caplan. This man
professed not to krbw anything about
the launch and had to go To Oakland
to find out. When he returned
gave him an order for the delivery to
him of 500 pounds of so per cent"
James c. O'Brien and August
Miclo told of the renting of the San
Francisco cottage in which the explo-
sive was stored.
Several weeks later. passing the
house, thought il was queer that
the people had not moved in said
@ BIien, the owner, II had a key
and entered. | noticed that all the
rooms We're empty but the front
room was locked Opening that 7
saw ten boxes partly covered with
one OF the boxes was
opened, but the others were filled,
about fifty pounds each II
pulled out one stick in the opened
box. thinking II was a candle. I was
,m oking. and | knocked the stick
against the hox to see what it was.
Presently I noticed the sticks We're
marked 'Nitrogeatin, so per cent
That was enough for me. / said
Good night and ran to tell the po-
ice"
Frank y. Carroll. police detective (
# Los Angeles. told about the condi- !
ion of the wrecked Times building
when he arrived there at a. m He
Ilso described the contents of bomb |
ound on the premises OF Felix Zee |
landlaar. 1t contained sixteen and a /
,alf sticks OF the explosive, dvna-
mite cap, fuse, battery and clock !
Eckhoff, a friend and neighbor OF !
ne Mcnamara family in Cincinnati, I
Ifter telling how he met James r. |
Mcnamara in a Nebraska town and |
sssted in the dynamiter's return
asst by way of Chicago and Omaha.
m cross examination, admitted that.
moving the dynamiter had killed
persons in Los Angeles, he realized
he precautions necessary to conceal
lis identity; that he demanded $500
rom the McNamaras ito keep his
mouth shut" threatening If they did
ot pay he would inform the authori-
les; that after the McNamaras were
rrested he repeated his demand for
500, but received no responses that
electives working on the Los Ange
- case took him to Cleveland and
here for a time kept him hidden, so
hat he might not be questioned by
IcNamara's attorneys.
you mean to say that if McNa-
nara had paid you the money you
lould not be here now to testify
gainst these defendants2" asked At
orney William n. Harding. for the
efense.
"Probahly not" said Eckhoff I,
Eckhoff said that long before the
,ss of life at Los Angeles he knew
ames r. Mcnamara was doing dNna ,
ltng jobs. He said he himself was
INT to blow up job in Cincinnati, ,
,r which he was promised $50, but ,
e met the watchman and did not
0 il. He said Mcnamara had hid :
Il place for nitroglycern in the /
oods on a hill about a quarter of
ie from the Mcnamara house and
bout five miles north of Fountain !
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