Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-11-22
DYNAMITE Was
STOLEN IN
LOADS
M'MkNIGAL GIVES REMARKABLE
ACCOUNT OF HOW He AND
M'NAMARAS PLANNED EVEN
MORE EXTENSIVE OUTRAGES THAN
Los ANGELES TIMES

Joseph Schwartz, Chicago, was ar
rested this afternoon on a federal
warrant charging him with attempt
ing to obstruct justice by intin1idat-
ing Cornelius Crowley, Monica, Pa,
government witness in the dyna-
mite cases. Crowley said Schwartz
in the presence of a detective told
him not to testify to the truth.
Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 22.-Stealing
200 pounds of dynamite, hiding it in
a shed at Tiffin, Ohio and then trans
porting it in suit cases cases on pas
senger trains to indianapolis, was an
experience related by Ortie E. McMan-
igal at the dynamite conspiracy
trial today. 1t was the explosive used
by McManigal and the McNamaras
after the Los Angeles Times eXplos-
ion and by which ten non-unon jobs
we're blown up in spita Of the fact. the
witness said, that detectives for two
months had been on the trail of the
dynamiters. Confident that the agita
ton over the Los Angeles explosion
would blow over and that James b.
Mcnamara would be free to do more
jobs" McManigal added, plans were
begun in January, 1911, to carry Oh
the dynamite campaign with zcst.
When | reported to J. J. McNana-
re how easy it had been to steal the
dynamite from stone quarrey at
Bloomville, Ohio, and store it in my
fathers shed at Tiffin, he was pleas
ed" said McManigal
Il brought him several suit cases
OF dynamite as a sample and he lock-
ed it up in vault at the office of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers. J. J.
help me carry it. We brought it in
such quantities that j. J. said he
could not store it all at the Iron Work
ers office. We had about 200 pounds.
1T was decided to rent barn We
rented barn in West Washington st.
in indianapolis, owned by Daniel
Jcnea Jones helped Us TO get piano
box, barrels and sawdust in which we
packed the explosive. We told him
we We're storing some old letters, but
! took care to ask whether any child
ren played about the barn
y. J. ordered us to cut off all the
trademarks on the dynamite, because
he said ii had been a mistake to leave
the trademarks on the dynamite pur.
chased at San Francisco for the Los
Angeles job
Having the new supply of explosive,
McManigal said J. J. arranged to send
the dynamiters outnon jobs. F!
The job of causing an explosion in .
a $10o0,0O0 iron and steel plant in
construction at South Chicago, ILL.,, !
on February "a, 1911, McManigal said |
was knocked down to the lowest bid |
der"
"On February 49, J. B. came to my
home in Chicago, and said we had
job to do" McManigal testified. He
said Herbert S. Hockin had seen and
talked to the executive board of local
No 1, in Chicago and local No. l
wanted to have Job done and was
willing to pay a big fee for it. He
said a man named Ed Francis had
told the executive board he had two
Cleveland men who would do the
South Chicago job for $500, but the
executive board had asked Hockin
it could be done cheaper,
perhaps for 5000 or $500.
81. B. and | looked over the South
plant and decided to do ii.
We went to Indianapolis and got our
packages each containing 20 pounds
Of dynamite. John J. Mcnamara in