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The Detroit times., 1912-10-08
CHICAGO PROVISION MARKET

CHICAGO. Oct. T.--Buttcr: Extras
soc. irsts. ?Tc. dairy extras. sSc hrsts
zee Eggs: Prime hrsts. 24c. frsts. 20
young Americas. l004Sc. Live poultry
Fowls. i2c; ducks. i26I4Mc: geese.
i2hc.
The Detroit times., 1912-10-08

BusGuees-IIks prfutisg. no fuss sna
no feathers The plain. neat kind "a
looks right. Times Trtuttng Ce.,
John R.-sL Ph. Main itSs or City stst.
The Detroit times., 1912-10-08
NEW yoRk uoxrv

NEW YORK Oct Time money:
- for six months. Mercantile paper,
80 Bar silver: London. 60 pence: Kew
York sc. Demand sterling. ti.Ss-a5
The Detroit times., 1912-10-08
NEW YORK PRopUCE.

NEW YORK. Oct. Flour: Quiet
and unchanged Pork: Firm: mess,
sis6le.5O. Lard: Strong: middle west
spot. Sll9O@12. Sugar Raw. quiet;
centrifugal. ?6 test, $414: muscovado.
50 test, $3.6i; refined. steady; cut loat.
$40: granulated. s4.95@5. 5. Coffee:
Rio No. on spot, IAN 9l4Bc. Tallow;
Quiet: city. 6kc; country. 5A g6Sc,
s5c; clover. 75c6s1.05. Dressed poul-
try: firm: turkeys. 14d 23c; chickens
l2Ih a 2ic: fowls, 1SQ 1sc: ducks. lsc fe
IsHc. Live poultry: Dull: geese. 1t@
1sc: ducks. 14G15hc; fowls. lc:
chickens. 14al4hc. Cheese: Quiet
and steady: state milk. common to spe-
cisls. 14G17hc: skins, common 70 spe
ciais 7LTl4i. g; full skins. az nei7c c.
Butter: Dull: receipts. 4.724: creamery
extra. 3Ols a sic; state dairy tubs. 2S9
2sc: imitation creamery nrsts z4mzec,
Eggs: steady: receipts, s,203; nearby
white fancy. 42644c: nearby mixeu
fancy. 2sd33c; fresh nrsts, 2Sustc.
The Detroit times., 1912-10-08
u. S. GOVERNMENT BONDS
COL. ROOSEVELT
is DETROIT VISITOR

Continued from Page one,.
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McNamara'S Confession
Recited by MCManiga|

ortie {. McManieaI declsred that
Mcnamara confessed TO HIM that
when he was in the Times building,
before the explosion, he twisted off
. gas Jet and then the following con-
versation ensued:
McManieaI-Why did YOU break
off the gas jet?
MISUNDERSTANDING when the ex-
pIoslon occurred ! wanted the whole
building to 90 to hell. ~.
McMonisaI-And you knew there
were so many people in there, too ?
ENTHUSIASTICALLY the difference
was to make a good cleaning out
and | did IL. But ! am sorry 30
many were killed. ! hoped to gel
Gen. Otis. .,
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 14.-For
the first time since the twenty-one
) persons were killed in. the blowing up
Of the Los Angeles Times building
on October /, 1910, James B. sMc.
Namara's detailed confession of2sthe
explosion was made public and re,
lated on. the witness stand in the
dynamiting conspiracy trial today.
Ortie E. McManigal testified that
the confession was given to him
while he was hiding with Mcnamara
in the woods; five miles from Con
over. Wis, both of them having gone
70 the woods on the pretext of being
hunters.
Furnished the Explosive
Olaf Tveitmoe and Eugene A.
Clancy, San Francisco labor leaders
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it, knowing there were so many peo-
pie in the building. He answered {.
What's the difference. / was to
make a good cleaning out and l did
it. Then he thought for a while and
added: But | am sorry there were
SO many people. ! wanted to get Gen.
Otis. e..
"He told me he put the internal
machines at the residences of Gen
Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor of the
Times, and Felix j. Zeehandelaar. sec.
rotary of the Merchants and Manufac
turers' Association, all to go off at 1
O'Clock in. the morning. He said on
the way back East he was frightened
by the people talking of the explosion.
Afraid to Face People.
"He said he could not bear to look
anybody in the face, and he thought
everyone on The train was looking at
MIN. At Salt Lake City he said he
could not stand it any longer, SO he
stepped off the train and got in touch
with J. E. Munsey,l who hid him in
his house for two weeks"
Telling of other explosions, McMau,
1Sdl lSoJllIcu thCtt 1JAJ
he was sent TO Chicago, where he
talked with William Shupe and James
Coughlin, iron workers union Off
Gals, about a job to be blown up be,
tween Gary and Pine, Ind, but which
he did not blow up because the job
was not properly located.
He said that after news of the Los
Angeles explosion was published, J.
J. Mcnamara, secretary of the iron
workers headquarters in Indianapolis,
sent him to Worchestcr. Mass. to
cause an echo" of the Pacific Coast
explosion in the East.
Wanted An Echo East.
Il want an echo of that Los Ange-
les affair in the East, SO if they catch
J. B., they'll think they have the
wrong man. Mechanical said was the
way J. J. instructed him.
MECHANICAL said he went to Worces-
ter and caused two explosions there
October 9. On the return, he testi.
fled. he called at the home Of Frank
c. Webb, in New York, and left a
message that if any more work was tc
be done in the East, word should be
sent to J. J. Mcnamara in lndianapo-
lis. He said he also looked up the
possibility of blowing up jobs in Phil
adelphia and Pittsburg.
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STORY OF LOS ANGELES TIMES EXPL OSION
REVEALED AT LAST BY FULL CONFESSION

friend of Mayor Mccarthy, and, in
fact, Tveitmoe was the mayor of San
Francisco. -~ r.. - 49,
HE said Schmidt had scheme to
set off bombs by chemicals, which he
had learned from a friend of Tyeit-
moe, but when he (McNamara)
showed them the alarm clock scheme
they all decided it was best. Schmidt
and J. B. went to Los Angeles and
looked over the Llewellyn and Baker
Iron works plants and the Times
building. James B. sent back to his
brother postcard on which was part
B written and partly printed: 1t now
reads: "The Times for the news. "
It will soon read: The news for the
Times E.@5 L. "'
Difficult to Buy Explosives.
81 asked him why he went after the
Times. He answered that Tveitmoe
had put him on to 1t, Then he told
me about how difficult it was out
there to buy explosives; how they de-
cided at last to get launch and buv
nitro-gelatine of So per cent strength
from powder company, on the rep
resentation that it was to be used for
blowing up stumps on a ranch; how
he sent his men to arrange for buying
the explosive.
"He said the clerk at the powder
company reported they did not make
an explosive that strong. He told me
how at last he got 500 pounds of the
explosive on the launch, after chang
ing the name. of the launch, and how,
when they got in the bay they attract
ed the attention of other vessels be-
cause the launch would not make any
Roadway and got in the way OF others.
Too Much of Talker.
He said when his stuff was ready
to take to Los Angeles ne had talk
with Tveitmoe. telling him either he
or Schmidt would have to do the Job
alone, not both of them, for Schmidt
woman friend in Los Angeles that he
(McNamara) did not want to get mix
ed up in the job.
Then he told NE he had set the
! bomb in what is known as ink alley
in the Times building, in some ink
barrels and old paper. Going in he
said he was stopped by the night
Waterman, who asked him what he
wanted in there. He replied he was
going to the composing room. The
Waterman let him. pass He was
again stopped by a boy, but he also
told the boy he was going to the COM
posing room.
Broke Off Gas Jet.
The boy directed him to a door or
stairway, think he said. He reached
the basement, and while passing along
! l. tore off gas let | asked: Why
did YOU break off the gas iet?' He
replied: Because | wanted the whole
building to go to hell
| Il said was surprised he would do
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McManigal testified, were named by
Mcnamara as having made arrange
ments for the Los Angeles explosion
and as having furnished the two
men-F. A. Schmidt and David Cap
lan.-to assist in buying the high
power nitro-gelatine, because Schmidt
and Caplan had been regularly EN-
ployed on the Coast by the building
trades council of California.
Captain and Schmidt named by Nc
Manigal, were indicted in Los An
geles county with James b. McNa
mara on charges of murder, but they
never have been captured. Govern
ment agents have been informed that
Captain was killed.
Mechanical said that on November
Is, 1910, he went to Kenosha on a
hunting trip and James B. joined him
there. They went with the party to a
camp five miles in the country
Tried to Shoot Him.
"On Nov. g. said McManigal, 81
missed James B. and started out
alone to look for some deer. Stand
ing on tree stump, suddenly heard
the crack of pistol, but looking
around saw no one. Every one was
supposed to wear red cap to distin.
yguish people from deer. saw no red
cap, but presently I saw James B
G,uspicion flashed into my mind. &C
cused him outright.
81 think you were taking a shot al
me- said. If you do you had bet
ter be quick about it. This is a fine
place up here to get rid of a man
just shoot him and the coyotes will
eat up his body
Just to Scare Him.
He replied he just did it to scare
me. Then, we being alone for the
first time, he sat down and told me
about the Los Angeles jolt. He said
when he went to the coast in July he
got in touch with Tveitmoe and Clan
CT, according to instructions from his
brother, at the headquarters of the
! lion workers union in indianapolis
Tveitmoe and Clancy, he said, put
Caplan and Schmidt at his disposal
because they had been working fol
the California building trades council
Schmidt was too much of a talker, he
, said, and when he blew up a job in
Oakland, Aug. 20, he made Schmidt
stay in San Francisco.
when he returned to San Fran
cisco, Schmidt was waiting for him
and on the strength OF the fact thai
the bombs had been set in Oakland
went to see Tveitmoe and got $500
from him that night. ]. B. said he
ALSO did the Seattle job. Aug. 81.
Plenty. Money on Coast
Leading up to the Los Angeles ex
plosion. ]. B. said he found he could
get all the money ne wanted on the
coast. He said Tveitmoe was the big
paymaster. and there never was any
thing to fear, for Tveitmoe was a
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How the dynamiter rented fur.
Eished room in Mrs Lena 1ngersolPs
flat in San francisco; how he got in
touch with F. A. Schmidt and David
Captain, his alleged accomplices; how
he called up from the flat to procure
the gasoline launch Pastime and to
buy 500 pounds of 80 per cent nitro
gelatine, high explosive, and how,
after fixing the Los Angeles Times
explosion to occur at l a. m, on DC
tober 1, 1910, he returned to San
Francisco and at IL o'clock that
night begged Mrs. Ingersoll to allow
him to remain there, offering her a
whole months rent, were details re.
lated by people who had personal
dealings with Mcnamara. -... =
Stored in Empty Cottage.
James C. O'Brien told how a cot.
tage owned by him on Nineteenth
avenue south, in remote part of
San Francisco, had been entered be.
fore the Los Angeles explosion, and
how, when, several weeks later, he
went out there to learn why the cot.
tage was not occupied, he found ten
boxes of ro-gelatine locked in the
parlor. O'Brien said, in his fgnor.
ance of what the boxes contained he
looked into one box with q lighted
cigar in his mouth and, thinking the
explosive was candles, knocked a
stick against the box. A Los Angeles
detective related what he saw when
he arrived at the site of the Times
building.
Another development of the day
was an admission by Frank Eckhoff,
OF Cincinnati that he aided in the
escape and concealment of Mcnamara
after the dynamiter was returning
East Eckhoff also admitted having
demanded money from the McNa,
maras Ito keep his mouth shut"
Tells of Renting Room.
Mrs. Ingersoll was the first import
and witness to be called. She said
she now lived at Victoria, B. G.. She
said. on September 1, month before
the Los Angeles explosion, she rented
a room to Mcnamara, who used the
alias J. B. Bryce Later Mcnamara
was visited by Schmidt, who was de-
scribed as having "squinty left eye,
or a glass eye"
: Schmidt, also known as Schmitt or
"Schmidty," lived at the home of a
Mrs. LAWN, a friend Of Mrs. Inger-
soils. 1t was in this way that McNa-
mara was directed where to rent a
room.
On Sept. IA Mcnamara left Mrs. In
gersoll's and went to hotel. From
the hotel, as testified to by telephone
operator, most of the calls were made
to the powder company for the pur-
chase of the explosive and to the own
ers of the launch in Oakland.
Wanted to Rent Flat.
Mrs. Ingersoll said she did not
again see Mcnamara until the night
of October.1.
AT about II O'Clock he came to the
house and wanted me to give him a
ROOM" she testified. Il could not
make arrangements at that hour.
Then he begged me to allow him to
sleep on sofa, saying he would give
me the rent of the flat for a whole
month. | declined, and he left. On
the following night he called on the
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cisco cottage in which the explosive
was stored.
Several weeks later passing the
house, thought 1t was queer that the
people had not moved in" said
O'Brien, the owner.
Il had a key and entered. I noticed
that all the rooms were empty, but
the front room was locked. Opening
that, ], saw ten boxes partly covered
with a tarpaulin. One Of the boxes
was open, but the others were filled
with boxes weighing about fifty
pounds each ] pulled out one stick in
the open box, thinking II was can
die. l was smoking and knocked the
stick against the box to see what 1t
was. Presently noticed the sticks
were marked nitro-gelatin, 80 per cent.
That was enough for me. said good
night and ran to tell the police
Condition Of Building.
Frank D. Carroll, police detective Of
Los Angeles, told about the condition
of the wrecked Times building. when
he arrived there at 2 q. m. He also
described the contents Of a bomb
foud on the premises Of Felix Zee
handelaar. II contained sixteen and
one-half sticks of the explosive, a
dynamite cap, fuse, battery and a.
clock
Eckhoff, a friend and neighbor Of
the Mcnamara family In Cincinnati,
told how he met James B. Mcnamara
in a Nebraska town and assisted In
the dynamiter's return East by way
of Chicago and Omaha.
On cross-examination he admitted
that knowing the dynamited had kill
ed persons In Los Angeles, he re-
allied the precautions necessary to
conceal his identity. That he demand
ed $500 from the McNamaras ito keep
his mouth shut" threatened IL they
did not pay he would inform the
authorities
That after the McNamaras were ar
rested he repeated his demand for
$500, but received no response.
you mean TO say that IL McNa-
mara had paid you the money, you
would not be here now to testify
against these defendants?" asked At.
,orney William NJ Harding, for the
defense. ..... W.. .---
Probably not" said Eckhoff.
Eckhoff said that long before the
loss of life at Los Angeles he knew
James B. Mcnamara was dynamiting
jobs. He said he himself was sent
to blow up a job in Cincinnati, for
which be had been promised $50, but
he met the Waterman and did not
do it. He said Mcnamara had a
hiding place for nftroglycerine in the
woods on a hill about quarter Of a
mile from the Mcnamara home and
about five miles north Of Fountain
square.
"one thing Mcnamara said he
wanted DONE" went on Eckhoff, was
to kill Miss Mary c. Dye, a. stem
ographer at union headquarters, in
indianapolis. He said she knew too
much about dynamiting, and he pro-
posed to talk to ]. ]. about having her
got out of the way. He said he
thought it would be good idea II l
followed her on a train and put a
small bomb under her. timed so that
TT would explode after got off the
train =.
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phone and again wanted to come and
II again refused to allow him. That
was the last / saw of him until after
his arrest"
Miss Ethel Gill, a telephone opera
tor in San Francisco. identified rec
lords OF calls by Mcnamara to the pow
der company and to the launch-own-
Lers
For a Fishing Trip.
She was corroborated by John
Stanley, keeper of the boathouse at
Alameda, across the bay from San
Francisco. He testified that late in
September, two men, identified as Nc
Namara and Schmidt, who gave the
name of F. A. Perry, said they wanted
to rent launch for a fishing trip for
a week or ten days. They selected
the gasoline launch Pastime, but Stan
ley referred them to Edward II. Bax-
ter and Allen D.. Burroughs. These
two owners testified that Mcnamara
and Schmidt negotiated for the rent
ing of the launch. finally agreeing to
pay $40 for ten days, and giving $500
cash security, which later was re-
funded. September 20, written
agreement was entered into and Nc
Namara, after being instructed how
to run the launch, took possession OF
it. VI
The next step in the testimony was
the testimony of Harrison NJ. Nutter,
clerk in a hardware store in San Fran
cisco, who sold $I.60 worth of alumni
mum letters to make two sets of the
word Peerless" In that way the
original name "Pastime" on the
launch was disguised by the name
Peerless.
The keeper of the boathouse, after
the Times explosion, noticed that
nails had been driven about the
launch's name and paint had been ap-
piled, although on its return the craft
bore its original name. -. . .
About the middle of September
Bruce Mccall, an employe of pow
der company, testified he received a
phone call from the Bryce Construc-
ton Company" inquiring about the
purchase of 500 pounds of high ex-
plosives, to be used to blow vi
stumps on ranch.
i IOlQ the CARER JudI EV pei SCuI'
vas strong enough for that, said Me
Cali, but he insisted he wanted SO
per cent. nitro-gelatin. / replied we
only made it 80 per cent. but we did
not have it in stock. A man called and
left an order for 500 pounds and paid
the bill. He gave his name and ad-
dress, saying he would call and get
it in a launch"
Two days after the launch was rent
ed. Mccall testified, Bryce, or Bryson.
called on the phone and said he would
81 in a launch to Giant station down
the bay to get the explosive.
Il told him he would have to- come
to the Office and get written order
and l would have to know about the
launch. He sent up man later de-
scribed as David Captain. This man
rrofessed not to know anything about
II launch, and had to so to Oakland
to find out. When he returned gave
him an order for the delivery to him
Ct 500 pounds of 80 per cent"
James c. O'Brien and August Micclo
told of the renting of the San Fran
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DETAILS OF PLOT AS
TOLD BY WITNESSES

INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 16.-Inci
dents of James &. McNamara's prep
arations to blow up the Los Angeles
Times building, in the wreck of which
twenty-one persons were killed. were
blended into a dramatic story by ter
witnesses from California at the "dv-
mantle conspiracy" trial today.
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How McNamaras
Plotted to Destroy
Building And Kill
Gen. Otis--Indian-
apOlis Trial Clears
Up Startling Mys-
terry

Q q O. q e q q 81 y y Y Y w
= 1
. The story of the Los Angeles {
. Times explosion of October i, Z
. 1910, has been told at last. 1t &
q was told on the witness stand
. in indianapolis, where the gov {
3 ernment is weaving net around {
z. the dynamiters who took part in {
. the countrywide conspiracy. {
= From time to time shreds of this {
q story have reached Honolulu. {
q Below the details are published
3 here for the first time.
. o o @ o o o o g g Q 9. q o @ 4
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Toaster-Stoue
Dainty meals cook
ed right on the
table. Boils, broils,
fries and toasts.
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Chatting Dish
Chatting dish. cook
ing by electricity is
neater, quicker,
cleaner than any
other way
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-29
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1912
If we encountered a man of rare
intellect we sh ould ask him what
books he reads.--EMERsoN.
From Bad to Worse.

For some time the long suffering
public along the line of the Southern
railroad between Columbia and Augusta
has been hopeful that when the annual
Nav change in the schedule was made
they would have no further ground for
complaint, butsince the change has gone
into effect instead of bettering almost
intolerable conditions matters have
been made worse.
The new schedule gives one hour less
in Columbia and no more time in Au-
gusta. Furthermore, persons leaving
Edgefeld for Augusta in the morning
have to wait one hour longer at Tren-
ton than formerly, even when the train
is on time. And as to the mails, no
daily papers reach Edgefeld now till
nearly twelve o'clock, the incoming
train that is supposed to arrive at II
bringing both the northern and south
ern mails. Petitions will be sent at
once from the people of Edgefeld to
the proper officials asking for a more
convenient schedule, and if no atten-
ton is paid to the very reasonable re-
quest the matter will be carried be-
fore the railroad commission.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-29
Seeing Political Spooks.

Senator Applet, of Clarendon
County, who was not member to
the late State Democratic Conven-
ton claims that the Convention was
composed principally Of the attor-
neys of the corporations as heads
of such corporations in this State.
The Senator says nearly all of
the delegations were made up of
men who were interested either as
owners, stock holders, or hired law
yers of the mills and the railroads. F"
In making this statement, so far as
Orangeburg County is concerned
the Senator is talking through his
hat. There was not man of the
class he mentions on the delegations
from this county. The delegation
did not ..have a lawyer from the
courthouse on it, but it did have
seven farmers from different parts
of the county. The city of Orange
burg was represented by one far
mer and two editors. Compare
lively speaking there was very few
of the class mentioned by Senator
Applet in the convention. We fear
that our good friend is seeing po-
litical spooks he happened to be out
of harmony with a majority of the
people of his county and was left at
home. e.-Orangeburg Times & Dem
ocrat.
Mr.. Applet also falls far short of
the facts so far as Edgefeld county
is concerned. This county
was represented in the state con-
vention by three farmers, a cotton
mill superintendent, bank presi-
dent and lawyer. Who could
Justly complain of the personnel
of Edgefeld's delegation? 1t looks
like somebody is grabbing at
StraWs.
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l lot of one-pieoe dresses, prices
up to $3.50, to close out at $1.75.
Rubenstein.
Public Pasture: I solicit your
stock for pasturing in my large
pasture on Horns creek. Enclosed
with woven wire. Rates reasonable.
w. E. QUITS.
Edgefeld, S. c.
Children's mems and ladies' OK
fords and slippers in white canvass,
white duck, tans, patent leather and
gun metal in nice assortment to be
found at
Rives Bros.
Have your windows and doors
fitted with wire screens and doors
for the summer. We have all sizes.
Stewart & Kernaghan.