Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-11-30
WOUNDED WOMAN
IS WITNESS N
BEHAhITE
THAI
Mrs. Hawkin Tells Court She
w@ Thfsatsnsd With Death
II She Revealed knowledge
Of Conspiracy.
KNEW OF EXPLOSIONS
Bxf0RE TNEY OCCURRED
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l In0ihnnpouh, NOV. JO,--lueauOns
why James b. Mcnamara. dynamitor
OF the Los Angeles Times building.
was not arrested until Ave months
after hls Identity became known were
put by attorneys for the defense at
the dynamite conspiracy" trial to-
day to Raymond ]. Burns. son Of the
detective who managed the arrest.
Raymond Burns had testified that he
had learned OF McNamara's guilt on
November 2. 1910. one month and one
day after twenty-one persons were
killed at Los Angeles. and that on
November his operatives got in per.
sonal touch with the dynamlter, after.
wards ''shadowing" him for month
in the Wisconsin woods The arrest
followed on April ~. 1911.
You say you knew early In Novem.
ber that the man In the Wisconsin
woods shadowed BY your men was the
dynRmiter of the Times building. Why
didn't you arrest Mcnamara right
there and them" asked Attorney
William N. Harding.
Because we we're trying to get the
men really responsible for the explo-
giOn," answered the witness
You mean men higher up In the
unlon?"
Yes. STR"
you say you knew at the time that
ortie Il. MECHANICAL caused explosions
at Peoria. Why didn't you arrest
McManigRl?"
| For the aame reason.
We were after the men higher up"
Z aa.N.
police sergeant accompanied James
y. AcNamara aud McManigal from
Detroit 20 Chicago. after the dyna-
tNrttoSs~ WrSrsts Tepeuveo rrcuairaaat'A
story that James B. offered $4,000
TO be allowed TO escape.
Senator J. w. Kern for the def0nse
sought to show that Blddinger per-
mlt,ed James B. to drink heavily on
the train. The witness said IA quart
Of whlskey was consumed
-. B. told me II we detectives
didn't take the $50, 900 Clarence DRr-
row would" said Biddinger. I'VE
told J. h. he was wanted for safe
blowing In Chicago. but he insisted he
was being taken for the Los Angeles
explosion. lie said Il would be the
greatest case ever heard. for the
American Federation OF Labor would
defend him"
William j. Burns, beginning his tes-
tlmOny, said In the summer of 1910
he was employed to investigate ek-
plosionB at Peoria, Illinois and lndl-
ana HarboT, Ind. He was on his way
from San Francisco TO Los Angeles
when the Times building was blown
ny and tSe next day he was employed
by the mayor Of Los Angeles tO trace
the dynamitsrs MIR. Burns testified
this afternoon that on the day afteT
the Times explosion he told Mayor
Alexander OF Los Angeles that ], j.
Mcnamara and Olaf A, TveItmoe were
behind the disaster,
He also said TVcltmue was behind
IA plot to XIII him (BurnsD because oil
Burns activity In san Francisco
Eratt investigation and because Burnt
had procured u photograph of Tvsit'
moe dressed In the prison clothes Oi
the Minnesota penItehtiary and had
published the photograph on thS
coast Burns related this az parts Oi
conV creations he had with "A. q
HOckin, Burns said no pressed Hook.
In for men higher up" In the plots
saying there were bigger men" than
J. ], Mcnamara. hut Hockln had said
none OF the other officials of the IroH
Workers union. except Eugene a
Clancy. we're aware OF what J. J. did
with the unions funds.
Burns said he paid HOokln's eK.
penBes in "skadowiRg" the dyna nit
ers, HOckin was named by McMan'
igai as an organizer OF the "dyna init
ing crew"
Indianapolis, Nov. 3O.--ThTeats NJ
death for telling about sHDlOsionI
were related by Mrs. Alta NJ. Hawkini
at the dynamite conspiracy trial TO
day. Mrs. Hawkins. attended by 4
nurse and suffering from injuries rs
ceived In a recent shooting was car
rled into court on a cot.
i. Mrs. Hawkins testified that a feV
J days before the explosion caused 4
loss OF S15. 900 on the property OF Al
bert Won spreokeIsen In Indianapoli
In 1908, she was told by Ernest q. w
BaSey. an lrOnwOrkers' union ofiicial
that something was going TO hap
pen" on jobs where non union work
ers weer employed.
He told mo to look In the news
papers the next day and read aoou
H." said Mrs. Hawkins "In the pa
peFs I saw nothing Then he told M
J II did not come on that night but b
J watch the next night. did AMI
about midnight heard the explosion
BAsey called me up on the telephonl
, ana told ms I must keep my moutl
shut. Ho SAID II did not would b
killed"
: The witness bald she was mot ssv
. eFai wsSkA agO while huntinE, Ray
mOnd J. BurnS, who said he knaw ~
, Identity OF the Los Angeles Time
dyBamltsr ave mOathn bsfore No n