The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-22
SOUGHT SAFETY.
N SECOND CRIME
Mcnamara Ordered More Names
Added to List OF
Dead.
FAILS TO CARRY OUT PLOT
After Destruction of I .os Angeles
FAILS TO CARRY OUT PLOT
After Destruction of Los Angeles
Times, He Planned to Blow
Up Auxiliary Plant.

Indianapolis. Ind. November al
gIycerlne. Ort!e E. McManigal. con-
fsssed dynamiter. In December. 1910.
went 10 Los Angeles. Cal. commits
stoned 20 destroy the Times auxiliary
plant. and by adding a few more 70
the list Of dead" to take suspicion on
James L. Mcnamara, who had killed
twenty -one persons In the wreck OF
the Times building two months before
McManigal so testified to-day at the
trial OF the forty-fve alleged dyna-
mite conspfrators against labor en-
plcyers Of aonunion labor. He named
men other than the McNamaTas a. hav-
Ing inspired the second Los Angeles
dynamite plot. He said he was pre-
vented from carrying IL out By the dis
covery. on reaching Los Angeles. that
tie auxiliary plant wae too well guard
ed and illumina at night Instead.
he set a bomb In An iron works plant
to explode on Christmas day.
. That was the Christmas present"
he said, Olaf A. Tveitmoe. a labor union
onlcial In San Francisco. had asked for.
McMantgai and James b. Mcnamara
had been hiding In the Wisconsin
woods. McManigal said. like pair Of
pirates, each with a red handkerchief
about his head. In conformity with the
game laws, and Q rifle over his should
or, when a number OF detectives ap-
peared 1T their lodging house Elud-
ing the detectives, they came 20 In.
dianapolis.
ElateA Over Escape
So elated was John J. McNamars
over the escape Of his brother that he
proposed that NcManigal start at once
for Los Angeles to do some dynamitmg.
James B. Mcnamara said he would
like to 60 out and do IL. but John J.
objected" said McManigal, y. J. say
Ing they were boxing for . man OF he
description on the coast. and IL would
be q good idea for q stranger to do the
Jobs and get back East as soon N
possible, ana then the authorities
would think their man was st:il IN
Los Angeles"
Then McManigsl quoted directions
he said J. J. Mcnamara gave him
Il left Indianapolis with twNve
quarts Of nitroglycerin December :.
-Four days later I arrived In Los An
geles and had buried the sxp:os ve IN
a gravel pit near the river. I iooked
over the three places I was to GLOW up
and saw that all but the Lieweiiyn
On Christmas Eve. going into the
Ieweliyn grounds. . dynamite cap ex-
ploded ard injured my hand That
put me cut Of humor. So ] placed the
twelve quarts all In one spot and set
II for o'clock the next morning
Then wen. TO San Francisco and
called at the Labor Temple there.
When 7 reached Tndianap ,lis in Jan
uary. John J. Mcnamara, his brother
and I met in . closed room at the
iron workers. headquarters. John J.
Mcnamara was all ruined up because
I had not done more damage. He sad
I had spent too much money to do
o, little damage
Explosive Vet Fssgssseo.
Then he asked ne how conditions
were on the Psciac Coast. and whether
they had forgotten about the Times
explosion. I told him they certainly
haj not. for everybody was looking
Tor tina. big reward. James q. NC
Nsmara thought IL he could keep under
cover for Eve years the Times explo.
sion would be foreotten.
The dynam:f.ng Jobs we're 20 20
right on. only hereafter dynamite was
~ he used instead Of nitroeiycer1n. -
u was more effective. John ,. Nc.
Hamara then told me OF . proposal 90
seod bombs by express 20 nonunion
contractors. Z told him that w0Ul0
not be Responsible. for you could never
ten x\O might open the packaGV0. 80
they might explode en- the trainsl He
ssplseA ne dsd not care abovt ths&
II went 90 Tim, O.. and began %
steal dynamite from q stone quarry 90
BlcomviIIe. O., and store u IN Q she6
% the rear q ny fathers house =
Tim. I stole shree % Seur hu0e1s9