New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-26
DESTRUCTION OF CITY
PLOTTED BY M'NAMARA
Los Angeles Earthquake" and
Wiping Out of Panama Canal
Locks, J. BIS Scheme.
KILLINGS IN EAST PLANNED
Frick Building, in Pittsburgh,
and Other Structures Marked
for Doom-Would Blow
Up Sleeping Car.

Indianapolis. Nov. 25.-The contentious
of the defence that the McNamaras and
Ortie f. McManigal alone were response
bic for explosions and that the executive
board of the Ironworkers' Union and Pres
ident Frank NJ Ryan knew nothing of any
81 900 expended from the organization
funds for destroying non-union property
were pursued in the cross-examinauon OF
MECHANICAL at the dynamite conspiracy
trial to-day
Before his direct examination ended Nc
Mangal had told how he and the 01cNa-
maras had talked of blowing up the locks
Of the Panama Canal; how James B. Nc
Namara was to return to Los Angeles
and wipe that city off the map By
series Of explosions, and how they were
prevented from carrying out these plots by
their arrest in April, 1911. He also had
related that after the arrest Of James b.
and himself in Detroit, and while they
were on the train to Chicago, James B.
offered Guy Biddinger. detective, $4,000
to allow them to escape, saying to Bid
dnger: 'If you don't get 1t Clarence Oar
row will"
WAS the pay you received from the
McNamaras your motive in causing so
many explosions?" asked Senator John w.
Kern. for the defence.
Cowed by Hoekin, He Says.
No; It was not money. Herbert S.
Hockin when he first started me to the
dynamiting business terrorized me. saying
If didn't do 1t he would prevent me from
getting work. Then 1 was prompted by
a foolish notion that it was for the good
of the Ironworkers' Union. My mind was
infiamed with the idea 1t would build up
the union"
Now. you say Mcnamara, in order to
get more money proposed TO steal $780,
600 by killing the treasurer Of the automo-
bile races at the Speedway in Indianapo-
lis, and yet you stlll kept company with
these men who planned the MURDER"
McAIanigai, before being turned over to
the defence by the government, thus de-
scribed what he and the McNamaras are
alleged to have said about blowing up
work on the Panama Canal:
In April, 1911, shortly before we were
arrested. J. J. and j. b. Mcnamara and
myself had a talk at the ironworkers'
headquarters in Indianapolis as to the
campaign after blowing up four Jobs
planned for Detroit. J. J.. said the Nc
CLDllC-l hdISlldH NOIsll NOlAlpdAIJt
a non-union concern, had two years
work on the Panama Canal and he
wanted me to go there. He said ] should
90 to Panama and promptly enlist as
soldier, as ] already had served in the
Spanish-American War / asked him II
he expected me to take nitroglycerine TO
Panama. He said: mo; the McClintic-
Marshall people have great stores Of
dynamite down there. You can watch
your chance to steal 1t. Put a wagon load
in each lock-"
] didn't take much to the Panama idea.
and told J. ]. so, but he insisted he would
take il up later. j. 3. said at that time
he had more work on the Pacific Coast.
He said he was going back there with
an arrangement to set off bombs by
touching off an electrical current miles
away. He said:
IN go out to Los Angeles and under
mine the aqueduct and the waterworks.
Then I'll put bombs at various places
I'm the city and blow the whole town on
the map. The people will think there has
been another earthquake similar to the
one at San Francesca"
McManigal testified that James B. Me-
Namara admitted he intended to kill him
(McManigaD in the Wisconsin woods.
Plots to blow up the Frick Building in
Pittsburgh, and other buildings in East
ern cities where open shop iron and
steel contractors had their offices. as wei
as 10 blow up whole sleeping car full or
persons in order to kill Miss Mary c. Dye,
q stenographer, who knew too much,
were described by Lindsey L. Jewell
Judge Anderson. who had increased
Hockin's bond, announced that he would
not ask additional bail Of the other de-
PENDANTS.