Omaha daily bee., 1913-10-03
ADMITS DESTROYING BRIDGES
Alleged Confession Involving Sew
eral Others Given Out.
HARRY JONES ALSO ARRESTED
New Secretary of International
Union Involved in Charge.
NEW FIGURE IN THE CASE
Jones, who Was Formerly Secretary
of New York Union No. 40, is
Charged with Conspiracy TO
Transport Explosives.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-George e. Davis,
alias George O'Donnell. was arrested by
n United States marshal here today on
a charge of blowing up with dynamite a
New Haven railroad bridge at Mount
Vernon, N. Y. September 81 1911. Davis
Is also charged with having conspired
with the Mcnamara. brotherA Frank NJ
Ryan and other offers of the Interna-
ilonal Bridge and Structural Workers
union to wreck the Mount Vernon and
other bridges. The marshal asserts that
Davis has confessed.
Davis was arrested on the complaint
II Robert ]. Foster, a private detective
OF Louisville, Ky. Foster charged that a
conspiracy of Ryan, the McNamara
brothers and fifty other iron workers
20 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
the federal law against the transportation
Of high explosives on passenger trains
Engaged in Interstate commerce.
The complaint asserts that Davis and
,is fellow conspirators on January %,
1871, transported forty-five pounds OF
dianapolis, over the Cleveland division
Of the Big -Four railroad. On September
B. 1911, II is alleged, Davis carried thirty
pounds OF the explosives from New York
city to Mount Vernon, suburb, and
there blew uo part of the railroad bridge.
Foster said that Davis gave him a writ
len confession before his arrest today.
Bail for Davis was fixed at $4,000
Confession of Davis.
The United States attorneys office
gave out this afternoon what purpotted
% be q synopsis Of Davis confession. 1t
said thar ie hAe dche q dynamiting job
1t Trenton, N. T.; had blown up an Erie
railroad bridge at Garrison, N. J.j had
plotted to blow UP the Blackwell's Island
bridge in this city; had wrecked bridge
It Pelham, N T.; Baltimore G. Ohio
bridge at Bradshaw; the Chesla pier In
the North river; had destroyed materials
IN the yards of the Pennsylvania rail-
toad at Philadelphia; wrecked a draw
bridge over the Bronx river, and similar
Jobs in Perth Amboy, N. j.; Somerset,
Mass, and Providence, r. ].
Foster, the detective who brought
about the arrest. has been employed by
The National Erector's association and
was found guilty in indianapolis on
March is, 1912, of assault and battery on
the person of President Ryan OF the In
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers.
Secretary Jones Arrested.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 2.-Harry Jones,
secretary and treasurer of the Inter
national Iron Workers, was arrested here
today by deputy United States marshal
IN charge OF conspiracy.
Jones. it is said, is implicated in the
confession of George E. Davis, who was
arrested In New York today. Jones was
Nrraigned in federal court and his bond
fixed at $4,000. He had not been able
to furnish It early this afternoon, Davis,
II was learned here, is the o'Donnell who
was considered an important adjunct to
the dynamite conspiracy trial here, but
who could not be found at the time.
II is reported that Davis made his con-
session two weeks ago in the New York