Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-08
M'NAMARAS HAD PLANNED
EXPLOSION IN EAST, TOO
District Attorney Proposes to
Show They Figured on
More Dynamiti1g

/ INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. b.-Ftve days
after blowing up of the Los Angeles
Times building. when twenty-one per-
sons were killed. a plot was considered
BY the McNamaras to cause similar
explosion on the Atlantic coast.
/ United States District Attorney Mil
Ter. conducting the prosecution of the
accused dynamite plotters," so assert
ed in delivering the governments out
line of the case before the jury today.
Mr. Miller said Ortie E. McManigal
had been selected to do the job and
was sent to Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Miller's narrative Of this par
ticuIar charge was as follows:
Mechanical had been down to High
Bridge, KY, to see about blowing up
structure there. He arrived back in
Indianapolis on the morning of Oct. 2.
That was the day after the Los An
geles Times was blown up. McMan-
fgal first read about 1t in an Indianap-
l oils newspaper. He Immediately called
up the headquarters of the Information
al Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers and talked to John ].
Mcnamara on the telephone. McNa-
mara said come right on over here,
McManigal went over and said. Did
you read about that Los Angeles jobY
Yes. said Mcnamara. DO you know
who did IL or was il some of those
fellows on the Pacific coast?' asked
Mechanical. don't know yet Then
Mechanical asked Mcnamara whether
he had heard from Jim, meaning James
b. Mcnamara John J., reached over
to HIS desk nd got a postcard picture OF
the Times building or Of sign near
the Times building which said, The
Times for the news. James B. had
written beneath. 1t viii soon, read.
The news for the Times
II received that postcard several days
ago but haven't heard anything further, Z"
added John ]. On Oct. 5. MECHANICAL
again asked John ]. whether he had
heard anything from James b.. John j.
answered, Yes He's all right. He was
200 miles away when that Times ex-
plosion occurred. Now, what / want is
an echo Of the Times explosion in the
east. SO as to make 'em sit up, but /
want you TO change that alias of J. W.
McGraw. It's been hanging around you
too long. That's the trouble with ]. b.
He had been hanging on to ]. B. Bryce
too long and now they are locking for
J. p. Bryce on the Pacific coast 1t
than was arranged for MECHANICAL 20 go
east and cause the echo of the Times
disaster"
Mr.. Miller said Mechanical travelled
case, finally blowing up a railroad bridge
at Worcester, Mass. on Oct 10.
As showing, he said, that officials and
the executive board members Of the
Iron Workers Union were aware of the
explosions and were appropriating
money for the expense Of carrying them
on, Mr.. Miller quoted from books which
he said were taken from the union head
quarters. These records, he declared.
showed:
THAT s11.OO0 was appropriated at
meeting OF the executive board held in
indianapolis Dec. s, 1909. and was paid
out at the rate Of 5000 monthly to John
J. Mcnamara, with the specific under
standing that Mcnamara was to use 1t
to defray the expenses of dynamiting,
and.
That McNamara drew on the fund
regularly up to and after the Times dis
aster. his checks being Endorsed by
Frank NJ. Ryan, president OF the union;
John T. Butler, Buffalo. first vice presi-
dent; Herbert S. Hockin, acting secre-
tary- treasurer; Frank c. Webb. New
York, and Phillip A. Cooley, New Or
leans, member Of the executive board.
all Of whom are on trial
Newspaper clippings giving accounts of
explosions, Mr.. Miller said, were accept
ed as proof that the work had been done
and upon which the regular fee for each
Job of 500 was paid to HcManigaL In
one instance in blowing up of a contrac-
tors work in Indianapolis, Mr.. Miller
said II would be shown that Ernest G.
W, Basey, a local business agent, also
a defendant, told people the night before
watch the newspaper in the morning.
Something is going to happen"
Herbert 8. Hockin, now acting secre-
tary OF the union. was referred to by
Mr.. Miller before the jury as a double
crosser and double dealer in giving in
formation to the government about the
dynamiting plots.