The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1912-10-09
FEDERAL PROSECUTOR De.
CLARES JOHN J.. ORDERED
DESTRUCTION OF LOCKS.
TALKS z HOURS TO JURY
District Attorney Miller Is Uncertain
When te VIII Conclude His
sPeech-No testimony
Heard Tuesday.

indianapolis, Oct. 9.-More than so
hotel clerks and other hotel employees
were in indianapolis ready to testify
in the dynamite conspiracy trial They
we're expected to be the first witnesses
called after the opening statements
were concluded, and their evidence
was expected to corroborate the con
fession Of Ortie Mechanical, insofar as
to verify the cities and dates named in
the fifth days installment of the mar
ratiye District Attorney Miller recited.
Through these hotel men the gov
ernment hones to trace McManigsT
James g. and John McNamara, John
Clark, Herbert S. HocBin, Frank C.
Webb Frank NJ. Ryan and the other
principals in the alleged dynamite
plot through the five years of its ex
IsteDce. All Of these men were in al
most every large city at different
times, being seen around about the
time of the structural explosions.
They used aliases a part Of the time,
It is alleged
There was no chance that testi-
mony would be heard The district
attorney was not nearly through his
statement when he entered ON the
twenty second hour Of speech. and he
was not certain that he would finish
during the day Newton Harding and
Senator Kern then are expected 20
open for the defense, and more than
a court day may be consumed by
them.
Pages from the careers of the Nc
Namaras and Ortie Z. McManigal, as
leaders of "the firing squadron Of dy-
lamiters," with conversation in which
they were said to have plotted to send
McManigal TO Panama to blow up the
locks of the Panama canal, were read
by District Attorney Miller.
The incident in reference to Pan
anna, Miller said. occurred Just before
The arrest of the Los Angeles dyna-
miters when they were becoming des-
perate in their efforts to get explo-
sives without betraying their identi-
lies.
NiNft dttiIcti SNtS ilt1ti 0~~tNtA1s
John ]. called James Nj. Mona
mara. his brother, and McManigal to
The headquarters of the international
Association of prdge and Structural
IRON oWrkers," said Miller "Jchn J.
said to McManigal We can't get any
more dynamite around here without
stealing it. Now, you go to Panama
and see what you can do down there
The McClintick-Mars Construction
company has a lot of dynamite stored
down there. You could easily get hold
Of it and blow up the locks That
would make 'em sit up and take no.
lice and take their minds off the Los
Angeles affair McManigal refused to
90 at the time Soon after they were
all arrested"
The contractor mentioned was one
Of those who had declared for the
open shop" in the United States,
Names Tveitmoe as "Protectcr."
Olaf Tveitmoe, San Francisco. now
on trial. was accused in the govern
ment's statement to the jury as hay
ing been the protector of the dyna-
miters on the Pacific coast, who point
ed how the Los Angeles Times build
Ing and the Llewellyn iron works
were to be blown up who wanted the
Eaker iron works and the Times aux
lliary plant blown up, and who prom
lsed to the dynamiters that his (Tveit-
moe's) friendship with p. II. McCar-
thy, then mayor of San Francisco,
would insure protection from the po-
lice.
Tveitmoe was then editor of a trade
paper and secretary of the building
trades council of California. McCar-
thy recently was in Indianapolis.
After the Los Angeles Times ex-
plosion James B. Mcnamara hid two
weeks in Salt Lake, the prosecutor
said. He then returned east, being
met in Nebraska by Frank Eckhoff of
Cincinnati with message from John
J. James B. said;
Il have been keeping pretty low. If
/ could get by for five years like j.