El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

the advent OF McAIanigaI and James B.
Mcnamara. brother Of the union secre-
( tary. as regularly hired dynamiters,
working under John Us direction, and,
as 'McManigal charges. with HOckin's
Leadership, the explosions became so
bold as to arouse suspicion that they
were the work of an organized band.
Detectives already had been working
on the case when the killing of 21
people in Los Angeles Dy a bomb set off
at one o'clock in the morning, showed
that the desperation Of the dynamiters
had reached the murder stage.
Much of the evidence that was pre-
cluded at Los Angeles by the pleas Of
guilt by the Mcnamara brothers came
out here. Federal judge Albert B An
derson ruled that while the specific
charges were Illegal transportation. all
other evidence relative to explosions
might be offered as showing a motive.
The testimony was that the destruction
of the Times" building was not strict
" part of the campaign against non
union iron and steel work, but was done
in an efofrt 10 uniOnize various trades
at Los Angeles. James B. Mcnamara,
who set the bomb, was a printer. Wit
nesses stated that Mcnamara after
wards expressed little regret that 81
people were killed, and. in fact, ex-
pressed disappointment that he had not
killed Gen Harrison Gray Otis, pro-
prietOr Of the Times that the uy-
namiter was sent to the coast at the
solicitation OF TVeitmOe, a recognized
union labor leader, and that TveitmOe
furnished David Captain and NJ A
Schmidt. who were also indicted for
murder but who never were captured
Whole Country Suffered.
All the 100 explosions came in for
scrutiny by the jury here and the field
OF operations extended from Boston TO
Los Angeles.
Who caused those explosions was
the question before the jury.
Broadly the charges were that ]. J.
Mcnamara began them and thought
- go
open shop" contractors. Make the
damage as heavy as possible" McMan-
igal said always were his instructions.
Hundreds of thousands Of dollars
been destroyed. Finding the mainten-
ance Of a hired "dynamiting crew"
cost money, Mcnamara is alleged to
to have appealed to the union for funds.
charged, others became implicated F or
instance, the government set out that
the union executive board decided at
last to allow AcNamara 5000 month,
for which he would be required to give
no accounting. Letters also were writ
ten which, the government asserted,
showed certain business agents, recOg-
mixing the "dynamitng crew as reg
ulaI institution sent word as to what
joEs should be blown up. All the in
dicted officials were declared by their
letters to be linked tOeeth - IN guilt"
The GOverument's Case.
That was the case the government. at
the opening Of the trial asserted il had
to place before the jury. 1t was stated
that the trial. in the number of defend
ants, in the fact that the defendants
were allied with labor unions. in the
nation wide extent Of the conspiracy,
and in its qualifications, was unprece-
dented- McManigaPs confession, de-
failing q explosions which he said he
personally caused. was scrutinized to
determine in what minute particulars
cOrrObOrative witnesses were needed.
Witnesses From Everywhere.
The witnesses came from almost
every city. Dozens of them were
brought from the Pacific coast to re-
main on the stand only a few minutes.
A curly headed, dimple checked girl,
CARRIED in pink dress. was called from
North Randall, o., to point out in the
court room Peter J. Smith and George
(Nipper) Anderson, Of Cleveland. as
men she saw going up q lonely road
with box shortly before an explosion
at North Randall A mechanic came
from Hawaii to tell of overhearing GER
tain of the defendants discuss proposed
explosions IN Detroit. An engineer
came from Panama to recount his ex-
periences with Hockin- Men who drove
livery wagons, check boys in railway
stations, who cared for suitcases, filled
with Internal machines, hotel clerks
who booked" the McNamaras and
McManigal for rooms, detectives, stem
OgrapherS, contractors who suffered
from explosions, and telephone opera
tors, all related piecemeal their knowl
edge of the defendants conversations
or movements, which the government
undertook to weave into a complete
story to show at once the individual
guilt Of each, and the collective guilt
of all the defendants.
One by one the defendants heard the
charges repeated against them.
TVeitmOe's Case.
TVeitmoe heard his name mentioned
often. He was accused as having fur
nished Captain and Schmidt to help
blow up the Times" building He was
named as having sent word to Nc
Namara the month after the explosion
that things were all right on the
coast and as having requested the
dynamiters again be sent to Los An
Seles, later acknowledging another ex-
plosiOn there on Dec. 25, 1910. as "a