Arizona republican., 1913-10-03
Outrages Outrivalling EX- ploits of San Quentin Convicts Are Confessed to By George F. Davis Un- der Arrest in New York
HARRY JONES IS
 ALSO IN TOLLS
In Careful Detail Davis De scribcs Blowing Up or Trying to Blow Up Build ings and Bridges All Over the Country
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH ! NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Dynamite out rages that outrivalled the exploits Of 1 the McNamara Brothers and Ortie Me : Manigal were confessed today by Geo. i E. Davis, the union iron worker | The Davis, who was arrested here ] today. was the George O'Donnel, who figured in the trial in Indianapolis that resulted in the conviction of Frank M- i Ryan. president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural 1 Iron Workers and his 37 associates His 1 arrest and its consequences round up ! the work the federal government start ! ed more than two years ago. when dy- namiting bridges and steel frame buildings all over the country became d national scandal.
 1 All the explosions Davis says he ] caused, he touched on and testified to at the trial in Indianapolis but the fact Davis caused them remained unre- 1 vealed until he told it today.
 Davis confession resulted in the ar rest in Indianapolis of Harry Jones, secretary treasurer Of the Iron Workers | Union The confession supplements 1 evidence presented at the Indianapolis trial and makes fresh charges against some of the men convicted and now in prison. Some of his revelations con i cern President Ryan. now out on bail pending an appeal from the prison sen tenCe of seven years.
 Davis says he was the man chosen to kill Walter Drew, attorney for the Ma ! tional Errector's association in De cember Of 1911. after Drew had been i charged with Kidnapping John J. Me i Namara. It was suggested also he try to get" William J. Burns the detective employed by Drew and his associates 1 to unearth the dynamite conspiracy. : The price of Drew's head at that time 1 Davis said. was 5000
 i T told them" the confession contin- ues "I didn't want to mix up in such business"
 1 Davis consented to return to Indian apOlis without eXtradition. His bail was fixed at $1O.00O. The conspiracy l drought to have been broken up by l the conviction of Ryan and others still exists, according to Davis confession. l With the exception of Harry Jones, the men he mentions in connection with the various dynamite jobs are already arrested, although the confession indf- cated the government had not obtained all the discriminating evidence against |
 in Indianapolis
 Robert Poster, the Louisville detec-
 tive, shadowed the iron workers through several eastern cities. Finally several weeks ago. when Davis was i displeased of his treatment by the un- ion, Foster persuaded him to make a 1 full confession on September 16
 For a week Davis had been working at Pittsburg. The local delegate to the Iron Workers Union told him he must pay a twenty-six dollar initiation fee
 to the local union or quit work Davis 1 quit and feeling the union had deserted him. accompanied Foster to New York l Here in the presence of representatives l of the federal district attorney and the l National ErectOr's association he die tated and swore to the long and de-
 tailed confession which was given out | today by the district attorneys office. l Davis said he had been an iron work 1 CT since 1900 Tn the early days of the troubles between the union and bridge builders, he was member of the en- tertainment committee. whose duty it was to assault union workers Tn careful detail the confession de-
 scribes how Davis blew up or tried to blow up buildings in various cities in
 
 i tiOn of plans to destroy a new building in Fall River on April 26 1908, that Davis first came into cOmmunicati ton with Harry Jones. He says he got Jones at Indianapolis on the telephone and asked him for money. Jones. he adds, sent fifty dollars. Davis asserts
 Jones was familiar With the work he was doing
 Under the name of O'Donneu. Davis
 was arrested for the Fall River job, and served two years in prison Dur ing his prison term, he says. friends
 made a couple of noises" in other
 parts of New England to convince the lauthOrities Davis or O'Donnen was not
 the only person doing dynamite work
 After he left prison, the officers of the union gave him money and he went
 to his home in CoffeyvilIe. Kansas.
 John McNamara wanted him to take
 up his old trade in Oklahoma and was
 refused because it was too near home.
 The arrest of the McNamaras fol-
 lowed soon and on the advice of Pres ident Ryan, Davis says, he returned l (COntinued on Page Two