Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-11-15
MMANIGAL TELLS OF MNA"'
ARA COMPOSING TO DhNA'
MITING THE TIMES.
SORRY men were killed
nidn't Intend 10 XIII so Many, but
He Wanted to "Get' ccnerai
Otis

sons were killed in the blowing up OF
the Los Angeles Times building on
October /, 1910, j. Il. Mcnamara
detailed confession to having caused
the explosion, with his motives TOT
doing il and his comments on the fact
that 50 many people were killed, was
related on the witness stand in the
dynamite conspiracy trial today.
Ortie f. McManigal testified the
cohesion was given to him whiie
he was hiding Mcnamara In tho
woods five miles from ConoVer. WIS,
both Of them having gone to the WIS
consin woods on the preteXt or beihs
hunters.
Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene L'
Clancy, San Francisco leaders, NC
Manigal testified, were named py NC
Namara as having made arrange
ments for the Los Angeles explosion
and as having furnished the two men,
f.. A. Schmidt and David Caplan, TO
assist in buying the high power nitro-
geatine. because Schmidt and Cap
Ian had been regularly employed on
the coast by the building trades coun-
ell of California" Tveitmoe ana
Clancy are dHioHB tic i"
now on trial
Caplan and Schmidt. named by
Mechanical, we're indicted In Los An
gees county with James b. McNam
are on charges of murder, but they
never have been captured. Govern
ment agents have been Inc rmed that
Caplan was killed.
Wanted to Get Otis.
When he asked Mcnamara why he
twisted off gas Jet In the basement
of the Times building before the ex-
plosion, McManigal testified. Nc Ma
mara said. Because when the explo-
sion occurred, l wanted the whoie
building to go to hell
But / am sorry so many were
killed" Mcnamara added. i hoped
to get General otis"
McManigal said that on November
S, 1910, he was at his home In chi
cago ana expected to leave the next
day for Kenosha, Wis, whence he
was to start with a hunting party In
charge of Marion Sharp. That every
day. he said, John ]. Mcnamara,
brother of the Los Angeles Times dy-
namiter, asked him to take James b.
on the hunting trip.
He went to Kenosha and James h.
Joined him there.
They procured hunting licenses and
went with the party TO Conover ana
then TO a camp five miles in the coun-
try.
ION November g." SAID McManigal,
II missed James b. and started out
alone to fook for some deer stand
ing on a tree stump, i suddenly
heard the crack Of a pistol. Present
ly I saw James b. Suspician flashed
into my mind l accused him right
out
II think you were taking a shot
at me. 1 said. If you do. you had
better be quick about 1t. This Is
fine place up here to get rid OF
man-iust shoot him and the coyotes
will eat up his body.
He replied he just did 1t to scare
me. Then, we being alone for the
first time, he sat down and told me
about the Los Angeles job. He said
when he went to the coast in July he
got in touch with Tveitmoe and
Clancy. occ0rding to instructions
from his brother at the headquarters
of the iron workers union In lndian-
apolis. Tveitmoe and Clancy, he said,
nut Caplan and Schmidt at his dis
posal. Schmidt was too much OF n
talker. he said, and when he blew up
n lob In Oakland, August 20. he made
Schmidt stay in San Francisco.
Tveitmoe Was Mayor,
"Ieading I'M to the Los Angeles
explosion, ] Il. said he found you
could get all the money you wanted on
the coast. He said Tveitmoe was the
big paymaster and there never was
ANYTHING to fear, Tveitmoe was a
friend of Mayor Mccarthy. and. In
fact. Tvetmoe was the mayor of San
Francisco.
He said Schmidt had a scheme to
set off bombs by chemicals which ne
had learned from a friend OF Tveit-
moe, but he (McNamara) showed
them the alarm clock scheme, they all
decided 1t was best.
II asked him why he went after
the Times. He answered Tevtimoe
had put him onto 1t.
Then he told me how different II
was out there to buy explosives; now
they decided at last to get launch
and buy nitro gelatine Of Sc per cent
strenth from powder company on
the representation that 1t was to be
used for blowing up stumps on
ranch how he sent his man TO ar
range for buying the explosive.
He said when his stuff was ready
to take to Los Angeles he had a talk
with Tveitmoe, telling him either he
or schmitt would have to do the job
alone. not both Of them; for Schmitt
was too much of talker and had a
woman friend in Los Angeles that he
tMcNamaral did not want to get
mixea rp in the Job.