Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08
CONTEST IS CLOSING QU|zZED ABOUT CASH
Final Week of The Stars "Dynamite PLOT Witnesses
Competition Almost On. Testify Regarding Money
IT WILL END NEXT SUNDAY DENY ITS IMPROPER USE
Eastern High School Association Questioned About Clippings of Ac
District cidents" Building Projects
rs FIGHTING FOR $500 PRIZE NO KNOWLEDGE OF BLASTS
Al
Bag OF hat Rep They Knew Nothing
Award
"Dynamite Plot" Witnesses
Testify Regarding Money.
DENY ITS IMPROPER USE
Questioned About Clippings of 'Ac-
cidents" to Building Projects.
NO KNOWLEDGE OF BLASTS
P. F. Farrell and A. j. Gallagher De-
clare They Knew Nothing of
Purchase of Explosives.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. December l.
Funds contributed by the International
Association of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers to sustain it's strike against
open shop iron and steel contractors,
which was begun in 1905 and which still
continues, were Investigated in the cross
examination of witnesses by the govern
ment at the dynamite conspiracy trial
today. The government charges that
money was contributed to promote vio-
lence out of which grew the Mcnamara
dynamite plots.
Patrick F. Farrell. New York. former
member of the union executive board,
testified that $4,000 was contributed to
the New York district council Of iron
workers on account of the strike there
but he denied it was used for improper
purposes.
Asked about letter to John j. McNa-
mara in which, referring to organizers,
he said 1T takes good, hard cash to
push them along" Farrell replied he
meant only that the men required pay for
the work.
Inclosed Clipping of Mishaps.
February 3, 1908, drawbridge in
construction for the city of New York at
of the supporting guys had been removed.
The next day Farrell wrote to Mcnamara,
Il inclose a newspaper clipping about
what the high winds did last night" The
witness said he understood the wind had
blown down the structure. Two depre-
cations and one explosion occurred on
structural work in and around New York
In the following April, but Farrell as
serted he knew nothing as to the cause.
'As an official of the international
union did you ever appropriate money
for buying nitroglycerin or dynamite
or did you know Mcnamara was engaged
In dynamiting?" asked Senator John W.
Kern, for the defense, on direct exam
ination.
Il never heard of it until Mcnamara
was arrested
Andrew J. Gallagher member of the
BOARD or supervisors of San Francisco
who was secretary of a committee ap-
pointed in connection with the California
building trades council to unionize trades
In Los Angeles. testified that he received
S1,OOO from the ironwOrkers through
Olaf A. Tveitmoe. defendant. and alto
gether from other sources he received
$4,000 through Tveitmoe.
East Solicited for Funds.
After the Los Angeles Times building
was blown up. Gallagher said. he sent
Eugene A. Clancy. another defendant, to
eastern cities to solicit for the fund
WAS any part of that strike fund used
to defend the McNamaras at Los An
geles?" asked District Attorney Miller.
about $1,000 was loaned to the defense
FUND, but later it was returned" said
Gallagher.
Other witnesses had testified that when
Clancy came east after the Los Angeles
explosion he met James 3. Mcnamara
in Chicago. when the latter was in hid
ing and fugitive on charges of murder
and that Tveitmoe met John J. McNa-
mara at labor convention in st. Louis
and asked that other explosions be
caused in Los Angeles, as result of
which Ortie E. Mechanical caused an ex-
plosion in an iron works at Los Angeles
In December, 1910.