The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-14
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Frank ]. Murphy. Detroit. former
Sturgeon Meadows, Indianapolis
business agent district council Inter
national Brotherhood Carpenters ano
Joiners.
Inventor of the Clock.
In information supplied the govern
ment Hockin is made to appear tue
chief lieutenant of John J. McNaIfiar q
the boss of the dynamiting crew he
is charged with having planned expIo-
sions desired by the enemies OF oPSl PEI
shop contractors he IS haIieu ~ ,
Mechanical as one of the men VIZ
originated the alarm clock schenne pS
which explosions were arranged 10 oc-
chr several hours after the bombs Were
set, thus enabling the dynamllers u
get away and eSta bliSh allplS-
He is also charged with DelHs IAA0
manager of the secret stores OF eX-
plosives kent at Roch ester, Pa, Mum
Gle. Tif7n. Ohio, and Indianapolis
NcManigaRs confession was ttla.
FIocIxin started him in the oynaInlt :
business in Detroit in June, 1907 tnal
HocI<in gave him SIS for blowing up
a Detroit building with a note saylns
Compliments of the executlEe poel d. ~
more to come" that he and Hockln
went with him to Buffalo and sent
him to many other places; that ne
HocIxin and J. J. Mcnamara estapilsh-
the explosive store mousse d. NJ
cfe. that Rockin visited him IN chicago
and there first showed MIN tHe Alai -
clock scheme; that on Hockln , IN m
str,lctions he went TO Boston ana New
York and did .'jobss thaL ms Iera ar an
ranged by Hockin and McNamara ana
anal m occasions Hockin h1mSelf car
ried a suit case filled with explosives
Charges Against Snythe
u,Ssursv5 srnvthe of Peoria is charged
With meeting McManigal and showing
what places were to be blown up xI rSslt
Peoria Frank G. Webb OF Ne" VI 4,
former member OF the IRON Wpi 80 80
eT=crtIvs board, is charged with nav nav
fno beer NTcAdanigaIs guide in causins
exhibitions around New Aork cItS i,
NcMauigaI.s first meeting Win WepD
was in September, 1SVS' acCOi uiNe -
- ssy ~ vent to Jersey City, where a
7,f0 bridge Job was on and Webb want
I'd the work blown up, SAID McAaill- !
gal II told him Hock1n was the man ma
that paid me and ne wanted Nla-
duct at Hoboken blown up Wepp
Snsisted and said If I did not 90 the
Jersey City job this trip 1 would nave
TO come back and do 1t some otner
time. He said there was lots OF WorK
to be done and the boys had the
I'VE met the next day at the Labor
Temple on Thirty-fourth street On IN
the way over to Hoboken Webb gave
me $50. The explosion under the wa
duct took place on the night of Sept.
3. 1903. Webb is the only man L met
in New York. ~,,
Vile. N. J.. In July. 1910, met Weoo
in Jersey City and he took me out ana
showed me where the Phoenix Bridge
company was erecting v1aduct
1T placed explosives under the Jop
and afterWard J. B. Mcnamara gave
me $500 for the work. Later IN tne
year I saw a letter from Fraii TX 49,
TO ]. J. Mcnamara in which ne salQ:
"'You had better send man 10
Boston to see what can be done Tor
the local people, I went down east
and did various jobs, getting S2OO 1or
one at Worcester. Mass
President Ryan the First
Among the first arrested was Frank
NJ. RYAN, president of the Information
al Association of Bridge and Struc-
Indianapolis where the Iron Work
ers' headquarters are located and from
which J. J. Mcnamara, the convicted
dynamiter, was arrested last april III.
Reports from many cities show the
governments intention to arrest all
the men at one time.
Eleven business agents Of the Iron
Workers, four or five officials ana
some members of the executive board
who are charged with knowing what
Mcnamara did with money used to
buy explosives are among those in
dicted-
Spurgeon P Meadows. business
agent of the district council of the
International Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers and Joiners, also was arrested
in Indianapolis. He represents one or
the three labor unions alleged to be
implicated in the conspiracy. The Of
fetal of the other union represented
is c. z. Dowd of the machinists' union,
under arrest at Rochester, N Y.
Accused by MECHANICAL.
Frank c. Webb. a former member
of the iron workers executive board,
who was arrested in New York, figures
prominently in Ortie McManigaps con-
fessIon Webb is charged with meet
ing McManigal and showing him where
to do "jobs'' in Hoboken and Jersey
City, n. J.
Before night it is expected a major
ity of the fifty or more men indicted
will be apprehended and the govern
rnent will reveal the facts, all the
names involved and the extent of d
conspiracy which, it charges, for six
years has been carried on by union
labor officials and others against
''open shop" contractors. Among the
early arrests reported were those of
Richard H. Houlihan of Chicago, who
is charged with furthering the viola
tion of federal law in connection with
explosions at South Chicago and by
assisting Ortie f MECHANICAL, the
confessed dynamiter E. Z. Phillips,
a former official of the Iron Workers
union, was arrested at Syracuse, N
Y, and Edward Clark and Ernest G..
". Basey, also iron workers, were ar
rested at Cincinnati
John T. Butler, Buffalo, N. Y. first
vice president of the International Iron
Workers and Herbert S. Hockin of
Detroit, second vice president and Act
ing Secretary Treasurer and Fred
Sherman. local business agent, We're
arrested here after Ryan was taken.
Hockin succeeded J. J. Mcnamara. now
in San Quentin prison in California as
secretary treasurer. Ortie Mechanical