Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-10-03
new SUSPECTS ARE
UNDER ARREST
Apprehension of George E.
Davis and Harry Jones
is the Latest.
IN DYNAMITING PLOT
L. S. Marshal Says Davis Confessed
to Being in Scheme With
Mcnamara Brothers.

New York, Oct. Geo. E. Davis
alias George O'Donnell, was arrested
by a United States marshal here tc
day on a charge of blowing up with
dynamite New Haven Railroad
bridge at Mt. Vernon, n Y, Septem-
Der 3, 1911.
Davis is also charged with having
conspired with the Mcnamara broth.
ers, Frank NJ. Ryan and other officers
OF the International Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. Union te
wreck the Mt Vernon and 'other
bridges.
The marshal asserts that Davis has
confessed.
Davis was arranged before a Unit
ed States commissioner. waived eX.
animation and consented to go to
Indianapolis, where he is under in
dictment for transporting explosives
In his confession, it is said, Davis
has implicated union officials in the
Mt. Vernon and other explosions
jones In Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, Oct. 2.-Harry Jones
secretary-treasurer of the Inter
national Association of Bridge and
Iron Workers, was arrested here to-
day by deputy United States mar
shall Oh a charge of conspiracy.
Jones, it is said, is implicated in
the confession of Geo. E. Davis, who
was arrested in New York today
| Jones was arranged in Federal
court and his bond fixed at 100000
He had not been able to furnish il
early this afternoon.
Jones New Figure in Case.
Jones is new figure in the case.
He formerly was financial secretary
of the New York local No. 40 of the
iron workers, and was elected inter-
national secretary-treasurer last
January. The affidavit against him
charges conspiracy to transport eA-
plosives unlawfully, the same charge
on which thirty-eight of his fellow
unionists were convicted last Decor
Der.
At headquarters of the union bere
stenographer said Jones was the
only official in the office today The
stenographer said the other officials
including President Frank Moran,
who was released some time ago
from the Federal penitentiary on
bond pending his appeal from convic-
ton, were travelling in the union in.
terest.
Davis was arrested upon complaint
of Robert j. Foster, private detec-
tive of Louisville. Foster charged
that a conspiracy of Ryan, the Nc.
Namara brothers and fifty other iron
workers to transport dynamite 10 be
used in wrecking property of the
American Bridge Company still was
in existence.
The formal charge against Davis
who is an iron worker, is that he VIC.
lated the Federal law against the
|, transportation of high explosives or
| passenger trains engaged in inter
state commerce.
On September /, 1911, it is alleged
Davis carried thirty pounds of the
explosive from New York to Mt
Vernon, a suburb, and there blew uI
part of the railroad bridge.
Foster said that Davis gave him &
written confession.
Bail for Davis was fixed at $4,000
The United States district attor
neys office gave out what purported
| to be synopsis OF Davis's comics
sion. 1t said that he had a dynamit'
inc Job at Trenton, N. j.; had blown
I'D an Erie Railroad bridge at Har
rison, N. j.; had plotted to blow w
/ the Blackwell's Island bridge in thi:
city: had wrecked bridge at Pelham
N. Y; Baltimore and Ohio bridge al
Bradshaw, Ind; the Chelsea Pier l.
the North River here; had destroyed
many rails in the yards OF the Pen
nsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia
and done similar jobs in Pertham, N
j., and Providence, r. l.
A. Stewart leaves this morning