New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-01
PLOT AGAINST BURNS
CHARGED BY WITNESS
John J. Mcnamara, 1t Is A.
legged, Also Planned While in
Prison to "Get" Drew.
CONFESSION BY HOCKIN?
E. j. Brennan Testifies at
Dynamite Trial-Package
Containing Explosives
Produced.

INDIANAPOLIS, oct. 31.-That John J. Nc
Namara, the dynamiter, since his impris-
onment in the state penitentiary, At San
Quentin, Cal, has plotted TO get" Will
lam j. Burns, detective, and also 10
get" Walter Drew. who worked up evil
dence against him, was the substance Of
testimony at the dynamite conspiracy
trial to-day. .r'.. .'f
The story as related on the witness
stand was that Herbert S. Hockin went
TO San Quentin last spring and that Nc
Namara while in conversation with him
through the bars Of his cell said, I'D
like to see them get Burns and Drew"
II was further related that Hockin con-
fessed to the incident and charged he
heard labor leaders in San Francisco re-
peat McNamara's wishes.
As tending to sustain the story
package was produced in court and iden-
titled as having been taken from the
checkroom of the Union Station at
Indianapolis May s last. When opened
before the jury the package was found
to contain forty feet of fuse. parcel OF
dynamite caps and an alarm clock. The
package was wrapped in a San Francisco
newspaper of April 10. 1872
Edward j. Brennan. an agent Of the
Department of Justice, testified the plot
ting was related to him by Hockin.
Brennan said that May q last he was
called into the District Attorneys office
in Indianapolis, and there Hockin had
confessed to him.
Walter Drew, who lives IN New York,
recently was a witness and testified that
Hockin repeatedly had warned him that
"the fellows on the Pacific Coast were
after him"
Drew, as counsel for the National Erec-
tors Association, was on the trail OF the
dynamiters before the Mcnamara broth
ers and Ortie r. MECHANICAL were ar
rested and Burns was present in Indian
apolis when Samuel Gerber, a local de-
tective, personally took John J. McNa-
mara I'm custody. Burns accompanied Nc
Namara when James HOsick, an agent
OF California. took the prisoner to Los
Angeles.
J. A. G. Badorf. who testified that
Hockln confessed 10 having tipped off,
the Identity OF THE Los Angeles Times"
lNnafnlltIS, was tIbhS thdlllltu NllS al
ternoon BY Senator J. w. Kern, counsel
for the defence.
When Hockin told you he had gotten
in touch with Burns two weeks after the
Los Angeles explosion. did he tell you
how he did IT," Badorf was asked.
NO. he didn't tell me how. I told him
he was a fool for allowing Burns 10
get reputation as a detective on In
formation he was furnishing"
did Hockin say he was guilty Of dyna-
miting?"
He said he thought he might plead
guilty and gave me 10 understand he
was in for It. He said he thought all
they could give him was eighteen months
or two years"
Badorf was then asked whether Frank
NJ Ryan, president Of the international
Association OF Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers. was not in the habit OF sign
lng blank checks. The defence is that
Ryan signed many checks in blank and
did not know 20 what use Mcnamara put
them. Badorf said ne did not remember
telling Ryan that that was loose way
OF doing business.
Hockln is secretary OF the union and
occupies the desk formerly used by Nc
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