The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-16
CARRIED DYNAMITE
IN MARKET BASKET
Edward f. Clark Testifies
About Cincinnati Jobs
LEFT AN UMBRELLA
Ryan Indicated Good Place to Put a
Shot-knew He Was Committing
Crime When He Took Up
Dynamiting

Indianapolis, November 15-Carrying
the way Edward f. Clark, an iron work.
er. testifying at the dynamite conspira-
cyf' trial today. said he arranged to blow
up non-union jobs
Clark, an official of a local union in
Cincinnati pleaded guilty at the begin
ming of the trial of the 45 accused men
In the illegal transportation of explosives
indictments.
In detailing his confession on the stand
he told of personally blowing up work on
a railroad bridge across the Miami river
at Dayton on May 3. 1908. and of leaving
behind an umbrella which bore his initials.
Clark asserted officials of the Interna-
tional Association of Bridge and struc-
tural Iron Workers induced him to do dy-
namiting.
Once he said while inspecting work in
Cincinnati President Frank M. Ryan
pointed to a railroad bridge across the
Ohio river and said
There would be a good place to put a
shot
Hockin Supplied Dynamite
Before that. the witness said, Herbert
S. Hocl<in. now secretary of the union,
arranged to supply him with dynamite.
Having kept the dynamite in my house
over night" said he, II took it the next
night to Dayton. where l placed it on a
bridge over the Miami river. II was rain
ing hard. so / left my umbrella over the
bomb to protect 1t, III the fuse and de-
parted.
''The next day in Cincinnati HocSin did
not appear anxious TO pay me the 500.
He had newspaper account of the explo-
sion. Finally he gave me s97 on the
street.
when the question of blowing up the
Harrison avenue viaduct in Cincinnati
came up. Hockin said he was not going
to let me do II. as Mcnamara and Ryan
were not pleased with the way | had done
the Dayton job. / had left behind an
umbrella with my initials on IT, he said,
and they were likely to catch me.
Il went into dynamiting,' Clark con-
tinued. "secause, in listening 10 others l
was infamed with a foolish idea that
that was d good way to carry or a cam
palgn against non-union work. / certain
ly knew was committing crime"
On cross examination by attorneys for
the defense Clark admitted he had been
convicted on numerous charges, but de-
MED he ever had been indicted for high
way robbery or had withheld the unions
funds.
Purchasing Dynamite Described
James b. McNamara's purchase of 500
pounds of nltroglycerin, with part of
which he blew UP the Los Angeles Times
building, was described by George II.
Phillips. He is assistant superintendent
of powder company. On September %,
1910 Phillips testified seven days before
the Los Angeles explosion he delivered
to three men at the powder company's
wharf at Oakland 10 cases OF the ex-
plosive, each case Weighing so pounds,
One of the men, the witness said, was
MCNAMARA, another was a man with
bad left eye and the third he said looked
like a Mexican
ortle E. MeManigal in his testimony
was interrupted. This was done TO give
the government a chance to question other
witnesses. In his testimony so far Me-
Manigal has named II of the As men now
on trial for alleged illegal shipment Of
explosives as having helped him in his
blasting operations or as having been rep
resented to him as knowing about them.
William Behm testified that in June,
1907, while living in Ohio, his nephew pur-
chased dynamite caps and fuses. Me-
ManigaI heretofore testified he was sent
to Bloomvile. o., for explosives. Benin
said:
"Ortie told me once he was on his way
to blow up union job. I told him not
10. that he would 5et hurt At another
time | shipped him to Chicago 80 feet
of wire marked vegetables After the Los
Angeles explosion the Mcnamara brothers
to carry on n campaign of ter
ror. Emboldened by the fact that James
r. Mcnamara had not been captured,
months had elapsed, began early
in the year 1911 to steal quantities OF dyn-
amite from a Bloomville quarry"