Bisbee daily review., 1912-12-29
THIRTY EIGHT ARE CONVICTED
lcontlnucd rom rage D

slugging, slugging to dynamite and dynamite to nitro-glycerine."
 McNamara, at the headquarters 0f the union in indianapolis, although later named by witnesses as the sc- tive perpetrator of the explosions, was then unsupported by the contgae- tors. But the advent of McManigal and James B. McNamara, brother of the union secretary. as regularly hired dynamiters, working under John Us direction, and, as McManigal charges. with Hockin's leadership the explosions became so bold as to arouse suspicion that they were the work Of an organized band.
 Detectives already had been work ing on the case when the killing of Zl people in Los Angeles by a bomb set off at 1 o'clock in the morning, showed that the desperation of the dynamiters had reached the murder stage.
 Much of the evidence that was pre- cluded at Los Angeles by the pleas of guilt by the McNamara brothers came out here Federal Judge Albert E. Anderson ruled that while the spe- Cific charges were Illegal transpor tation all other evidence relative to explosions might be offered as show ing a motive. The testimony was that the destruction Of the Times building was not strictly a part of the campaign against non-union iron and steel work. but was done in an effort to unioniZe various trades in los Angeles James D. McNamara, who set the bomb, was a printer. Wit nesses stated that McNamara after wards expressed little regret that 21 people were killed, and, in fact, eX- pressed disappointment that he had not killed Gen Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor of the Times" that the dvnamited was sent to the coast at the solicitation of Tyeitmoe. a recoS- nized union labor leader and that Tveitmoe furnished David Caplan and NJ. A. Schmidt. who were also in- dicted for murder, but who never were captured.
 All the 100 explosions came in for scrutiny by the jury here, and the field of operations extended rom Boston to Los Angeles.
 Who caused those explosions? was the question before the jury.
  McNamara began them and thought them an effective means of fighting "open shop contractors. Make the damage as heavy as possible" Me Manigai said always were his instruc- tons. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property was said in have been destroyed Finding the maintenance of a hired "dynamiting
 TENT NTar . q leged to have appealed to the union for funds, and in this way, the gov ernment charged. others became i'm plicated. For instance. the govern ment set out that the union eXecu. tive board decided at last to allow NcNamara S1 ,OOO a month. for which he would be required to give no aa- counting. Letters also were written which. the government asserted, also showed certain business agents, rec ognizing the "dynamiting crew as s regular institution, sent word as 10 what jobs should be blown up. All the indicted officials were de- clared by their letters tO be linked together in guilt"
 That was the case the government, at the opening Of the trial asserted II had 10 plaGE DtlOit AAAt ltAA AA was stated that the trial, in the mum Der of defendants, in the fact that the defendants were allied with labor unions. in the nationwide extent Of 1, the conspiracy, and in its Tamitlca- tions. was unprecedented. McMani- gals confession. detailing 21 expIo- sions which he said he personally caused. was scrutinized to determine in what minute particulars coTro bOrative witnesses were needed.
 The witnesses came from almost every city. Dozens of them were brought from the Pacific coast to re main on the stand only few min utes. A curIy-headed, dimple-cheeked girl. garbed in a pink dress, was call ed from North Randall, O., to point out in the court room Peter j. Smlth and George (NipperJ Anderson, Of Cleveland, as men she saw going ug a lonely road with a box shortly be- fore an explosion al North Randall. A mechanic came from Hawaii 10 tell of oyerhearing certain Of the de fendants discuss proposed explosions