The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-02
ON DYNAMITING CHARGE.
Alleged Member of the Mcnamara
Gang Is Arrested.

New York, Oct. 2.-Georse f. Davis,
alias George O'Donnell. was arrested
by a United States marshal here today
on a charge of blowing up with dyna-
mite a New Haven railroad bridge at
Mount Vernon, n. Y, September 8,
1911.
Davis is also charged with having
conspired with the Mcnamara broth
ers, Frank NJ. Ryan and other officers
of the International Bridge and Struc-
tura1 Iron Workers union to wreck
the Mount Vernon and other bridges.
The marshal asserts that Davis has
confessed.
Davis was arrested before a United
States commissioner, waived examina-
ton and consented to go to Indianapo-
lis where he is under indictment for
transportating explosives.
In his confession, it is alleged Davis
has implicated union officials in the
Mount Vernon explosion and other
explosions.
Davis was arrested upon the COM
plaint of Robert j. Foster, a private
detective of Louisville Foster charged
a conspiracy of Ryan, the Mcnamara
brothers and fifty other iron workers
to transport dynamite to be used in
wrecking property of the American
bridge company was still in existence.
The formal charge against Davis, who
is an iron worker is that he violated
tation of high explosives on passenger
trains engaged in interstate commerce.
The complaint asserts Davis and his
fellow conspirators on Jan. % 1911
transported As pounds of dynamite
from Bellefontaine, O., to INDIANAPOLIS
over the Cleveland division of the Big
-Four railway. On Sept. 8, 1911, it is al
legged Davis carried 80 pounds of the
explosive from New York City to Mount
vernon, a suburb, and there blew up
part of the railroad bridge. Foster said
that Davis gave him written confess
sion before his arrest today Bail for
Davis was fixed at $4,000 The United
states district attorney this afternoon
gave out what purports to be a synop-
sis OF Davis confession. It said that
he had done dynamiting job at Tren-
ton, N J., had blown up an Erie rail-
road orluge at Garrison, had plotted
to blow up the BlackwelPs island
bridge in this city, had wrecked a
bridge at Pelham, N. Y, a Baltimore
and Ohio bridge at Brawshaw, Md. the
Chelsea pier in the North river here.
mad destroyed material in the yards of
the Pennsylvania railway at Phfladel-
phia, wrecked a draw bridge over the
Bronx river, and done similar iobs in
Perth Amboy, N. J.; Somerset, Mass.
and Providence.
Foster, the detective who brought
about the arrest has been EMPLOYED bv
the National Erectors' association and
was round guilty in Indianapolis on
March Is 1912, of assault and battery
on the person of President Ryan of the
international Association of Bridge
and structural Iron Workers
Another in Indianapolis.
Indianapolis Oct 2.-Harry Jones. |
secretary-treasury of the International
br1oge and structural Iron Workers. |
was arrested here today by a deputy !
United States marshal on a charge Of |
conspiracy.
Jones. it is said is implicated in the |
concession or George E. Davis, whe
was arrested in New York today
Jones was arraigned in federal court
and his bond fixed at $4,000. He
had not been able to furnish it early
this afternoon.
Davis, it was learned here is the
'oDonnell,' who was considered an
important adjunct to the dvnauite
trial here, but who could
not be found at the time 1t is re-
ported Davis made his confession two
weeks ago in the New York office of
Walter Drew, counsel for the National
Erectors' association. This followed
Jaws discharge from a job in Pitts
burg when, 1t is said he became "sore''
On the union.
Jones is new figure In the case He
was financial secretary of
New York local No. 80 of the iron
workers and was elected Internal ational
last January. The
tffidavit against him charging con-
'piracy to transport explosives illegal
y was made by Clarence w Nichols
assistant United States district attor-
ley. Charles w. Miller, United States
district attorney, who was in charge
# the dynamite prosecution here is in
New York. At the headquarters of the
International union here stenographer
aid Jones was the only official in the
'fhce today.
The stenographer said the other Off
ials, including President Frank M
Ryan, who was released some time
go from the federal prison at Leav-
nworth. Kan, on bond pending his
ppeal from conviction, were travelling
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