Arizona republican., 1912-12-29

the explosions became so bold as to arouse supicion that they were the work of an organized band.
 Detectives already had been work ing on the case when the killing of 21 people in Los Angeles by 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 precluded at Los Angeles by the pleas of guilt by the McNamara brothers came out here. Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson ruled that while the spe- cific charges were illegal transporta- ton all other evidence relative to the explosions might be offered as show ing the motive The testimony was that the destruction of the Times building was not strictly a part of the campaign against non-union iron and steel work. but was done in an effort to unionize various trades in Los Angeles. James B. McNamara who set the bomb was printer Wit nesses stated that McNamara after wards expressed little regret that 21 people were killed, and in fact ex- pressed disappointment that he had not killed Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. proprietor of the Times; that the dynamiter was sent to the coast at the solicitation of Tveitmoe. a recog nized union labor leader and that Tveitmoe furnished David Caplan and M. A Schmidt. who were also in dicted for murder, hut who never were captured.
 All the one hundred 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. J. McNamara began them and thought them an effective means of fighting open shop" contractors. Make the damage as heavy as possible Me- Manigal said always were his instruc tiOns Hundreds of thousands of dol lars worth of property was said to have been destroyed Finding the maintenance of hired "dynamiting crew. cost money. McNamara is al legged to have appealed to the union for funds, and in this way. the gov ernment charged. the others became implicated For instance. the execu- tive board decided at last to allow McNamara 1000 a month. for which he would be required to give no accounting. Letters were also writ ten which, the government asserted, showed certain business agents. recog nizing the "dynamiting crew" as regular institution, sent word as to what jobs should be blown up. All the indicted officials were declared by their letters to be linked together in guilt
 That was the case the government al the opening of the trial, asserted it had to place before the jury. It was stated that the trial in the num- Der of defendants, in the fact that the defendants were allied with labor unions. in the nation wide extent of the conspiracy, and in its ramifica- tions, was unprecedented. McMani gals confession. detailing 21 explo sions which he said he personally caused. was scrutinized to determine III WIldt IIiIllule tive witnesses were needed.
 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 min utes. A curly headed, dmple- checked girl. garbed in a pink dress, was called from North Randall. Ohio. to point out in the court room Peter J. Smith and George (NippeD Ander- son. of Cleveland. as men she saw going up a lonely road with a box shortly before an explosion at North Randall A mechanic came from Hawaii to tell of overhearing certain of the defendants discuss proposed explosions in Detroit An engineer came from Panama to recount his experiences with Hockin. Men who drove livery wagons. check boys in railway stations, who cared for suit cases, filled with internal machines. hotel clerks who booked" the Me Namaras ard McManigal for rooms, detectives. stenographers. contractors who suffered from explosions. and