Evening star., 1912-11-16
WANTED GIRL SLAIN SHED LIGHT ON VOTE
Witness Tells of Talk With J. Republicans Tell Taft Why
B. Mcnamara They Voted for Wilson,
SAID SHE KNEW TOO MUCH DESIRED COL ONEL'S DEFEAT
Frank Eckhof Testfes Deeply Interested in Let
Bomb. ters White House.
MANY ALARM CLOCKS BOUGHT BULL MOOsERS REPENTING
Angel
After Explosion
Ambit
Witness Tells of Talk With J.
B. Mcnamara.
SAID SHE KNEW TOO MUCH
Frank Eckhoff Testifes He Was
Asked to Use Bomb.
MANY ALARM CLOCKS BOUGHT
Story of Flight From Los Angeles
After Explosion Told at Dyna-
mite Trial.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, November 49,
James B. McNamara's flight from Los
Angeles after he blew up the Times build
Ing there October 1. 1910, his expressed
hope that the explosion would be at
tributed to escaped gas in the basement
and his reported purpose to murder a
woman stenographer employed by the
Iron Workers Union, because she
knew too much," were related at the
dynamite conspiracy" trial today by
Frank Eckhoff
Mcnamara family in Cincinnati, testified
that two weeks after the Los Angeles
explosion he was sent by j. j. Mcnamara
to the home of Mrs. Alice Nabb, Nc
Namara's sister, at Ballagh, Neb.
Il met James B. there" said Eckhoff,
He had disguised himself as much as
possible. He appeared desperate and
talked Of killing himself Then he asked
me if noticed in the newspapers wheth-
er people thought the explosion was
caused by escaping gas in the basement.
Wanted Bomb Used.
"One thing he said he wanted done was
to kill Miss Mary c. Dye. stenographer,
at union headquarters in Indianapolis. He
said she knew too much about dynamit-
ing, and he proposed We talk to J. j.
about having her gotten out Of the way.
"He said he thought 1t would be good
idea If / followed her on a train and put
small bomb under her, timed so
that 1T would explode after / got off the
train.
AT the Nabb home was ]. BIS mother
and Howard Nabb, his brother-in-law.
The mother wanted to know what her
son was worrying about.
He told her it was only little trouble
about union affairs. The net day /
started with J. B. for Indianapolis by
way of Omaha and Chicago. We re-
mained about four hours in Chicago"
Eckhoff said he refused to enter into
the plan to put bomb Under Miss Dye.
Miss Dye, who now lives in Pitts
burgh, recently identified hundreds of
letters introduced by the government as
duplicating the forty-five. defendants in
a conspiracy.
Bought Many Alarm Clocks.
Jewelry store employees testified that
alarm clocks used by the Mcnamara
brothers and Ortie E. McManigal in the
manufacture Of bombs were purchased
in such quantities as to arouse suspicion.
McManigal had confessed that when he
bought clocks he pretended he gave them
to farmers.
How the dynamiter bought twelve small
clocks at Pittsburgh in July. 1910, after
he had blown up job at McKees Rocks,
was described by Miss Margaret Burns.
She said when she sold the CLOCKS TO
McManigal she asked him what he was
going to do with SO many, and he re-
piled they were for friends In the coun-
try Miss Anna Elliott testified McMani-
gal bought at an Indianapolis jewelry
store all the alarm clocks In stock
Kept Stock Of Clocks.
According to McManigal, J. j. Nc
Namara, secretary Of the Iron Workers
Union. used to keep stock OF clocks
locked in a vault In his Office. The clocks
were fitted to bombs so that when the
alarms went off at a prearranged time
the handles Of the winders connected up
q battery and caused the explosions. me
similarity of clock which McMan'gal
lost at Peoria, ILL.,, and another clock
found at Los Angeles, Cal, was one of
the clues that put detectives on the dy-
namiters' trail
Half dozen residents of Muncie. Ind.
testified concerning vacant mouse a.
McNamaras and Herbert s. Hockin in
1909 stored nitroglycerin. The witnesses
asserted that boxes mysteriously were
taken in and out of the house at night,
that the windows were covered with paper
and that the nocturnal visits OF wagon
to the house deepened the mystery so
that children began to regard the place
as haunted.
Emanuel Maddox, a box manufacturer,
identified Hockin as having ordered nitro
glycerin packing boxes which were de-
livered to the Muncie house. Other wit
nesses testified Hockin was seen about
the house.
Hockin Is Identified.
Hockin. now secretary OF the Iron
Workers Union, was again pointed out
by John Longabaugh, agent of nitro