The Washington times., 1912-11-10
INSIDE STORY Of
. DYNAMITE PLOT IS
SL0WLYUNC0VEREO
Years Work by Government
Agents Made Public in
indianapolis Trial.
Continued from First Page)

The year 1910 saw the conspirators
fairy reveling in their work of destruc-
ton. The Government has introduced
a letter sent out by Mcnamara from
trusted sub-leaders informing them OF
the policy laid down recently by the
executive board and urging on them the
value of secrecy. In one OF Ryan's let
tiers he instructed Mcnamara to have
Henry w. Leglciter look after the Nc
Ciinuc-Marshall Jobs and to have But
Ter attend to the jobs in Buffalo and
Rochester"
Butler is one OF the vice presidents of
the organization who Is now on trial.
Ryan in the same letter urged that Her
bert 3. Hockin, now secretary-trcasurer
of the organization, should be assigned
to look after the Jobs at Chicago. Gin
natl and Detroit. =. J. Morris was de-
tailed for the job at Mt. Vernon.
The Government has letters from sew
eral of the defendants regarding the
Jobs" to which Ryan referred In his
letter and In nearly every instance there
was destruction or attempted destruc-
ton with dynamite or nitro-glycerin.
An extended correspondence between
ironworkers at Salt Lake CITY and
Mcnamara regarding Jobs at Salt
Lake City and In the district has been
presented 1t was at the home of Nun
for week following his flight from Los
Angeles after dynamiting the Times
Building
Cash Furnished Mcnamara.
The Government is weaving a strong
chain around members OF the executive
board of the iron workers, VINO have
insisted that j. ]. Mcnamara alone was
responsible for the dynamite outrages.
Soon after the arrest of Mcnamara
here last year by William J. Burns It
was learned that the executive board
had been making an appropriation OF
1900 month for MCNamaras use.
1t was charged that this money was
given to Mcnamara to use at his dis
Cretlon and that out of it he paid the
expenses of the dynamite squad. in
Guiding his brother, 81. Il. Mcnamara.
who Is serving a life sentence at San
Quentin prison. California, for destroy
Ing the Times building, and Ortie Me
Man!gal. whose confession forms an
important feature of the case.
The iron workers have insisted that
the appropriation OF N,OOo IA month was
for organization purposes. The Govern
mCnt has introduced as witnesses a
number Of former office employees OF
the iron workers. who have shown that
Mcnamara did rot have to account to
the executive board for the $1,000 a
month and that he deposited II in a
hank here and drew against 1t as a
private account
Among the witnesses who have testi-
fed was Paul J. Stuparch. of Sausa-
Ito, Cal. He has cafe there. and he
, testified about the visit from j. T. Nc
Namara. David Chaplain, and NJ. A.
Schmidt on September 20, 1910 They
landed at his place in the launch rns.
time. which, II developed in the investi.
CATION of the Times disaster was used
by McNamnra In handling the dynamite
for that job.
That J. J. Mcnamara while In Jail al
Los Angeles awaiting trial must have
feared exposure through the discovery
or evidence at the headquarters has
been shown by the testimony Of Lee
Rappaport. his attorney here. Kappa.
port admitted that on McNamara's in.
struCtions he destroyed the check book
that would have given the Government
great assistance In proving how the so.
cicty's emergency fund was spent
Hockin Called Traitor.
United States District Attorney Miller
in presenting the case to the jury, said
that HOckln, who succeeded MCNamars
as seCretary-treasurer. was Il traitor tC
the organization. and that he had sup
piled the Government with important
papers. HoCkin. 1t appeared. not only
supplied papers. but entered into ar
agreement with r, j. Foster. q detective
employed by the National EreCtors As
sociatiOn. by which he was purposeIS
absent while the Government backed
moving vans up to the Headquarters anC
carried away the wonderful series OF
letters that are now being read.
1t was testified by Walter Drew ol
the Erectors' Assocat on, and by Eos
ter that through an understanding witt
Hockin they were able to install "A die
tograph in President Ryan's desk, b,
which all Of tn" conversations in thu
private office of the iron workers foi
two months prior To the returning of tn,
indictments were recorded.
The Government IL now paving tn,
way for the testimony Of Ortic MCMan
lSal. whose confess on was one of tn,
reasons for tn" collapse Of the trial o
the McNamaras n Los Angeles. Mc
Manigal has been confined to a cell II
the Federal building since early in Sep
TENDER. The Federal authorities sal
his confession rivals fiction and tina
II Will b" III" most remarkable story
ever related to jury.