Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-02
One Is Davis, Said to
Be Mysteriouefy.
Missing O'Donnell.
Wanted at Trial.
SLEUTH SAYS HE FOUND
NEW PLOT OF DESTRUCTION
Union Officials implicated by
Confession in Which Prisoner
Declares He Blew Up New
Jersey Structures.

NEW YORK. Oct. George e
Davis. alias George O'Donnell. was
arrested by United States marshal
here today on a charge of blowing up
with dynamite a New Haven railroad
bridge at Mt. Vernon, N Y, Septem-
Der 3. 1911.
Davis is also charged with having
eonspired with the McNarnara broth
ers. Frank NJ. Ryan and other officers
of the international Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers Union to
wreck the Mt. Vernon and other
bridges The marshal asserts that
Davis has confessed.
Davis was arraigned before a
United States commissioner waived
examination and consented TO go tol
Indianapolis, where he is under in-i
dictment for transporting explosives%
In his confession. it is alleged
Davis has implicated union officials,
in the Mt Vernon explosion and
other explosions.
Detective Says Plot Exists.
Davis was arrested upon the com.
plant of Robert J. Foster. private
detective of Louisville. Ky. FosteH
charged that a conspiracy of Ryan,.
the Mcnamara brothers and thirtW
other iron workers to transport dyna-i
mite to be used in wrecking propertX
of the American Bridge Cosspany5
was still in existence
The formal charge against Davisj
| who is an iron worker. is that he yio<
lated the Federal law against tha
transportation of high explosives on
passenger trains engaged In inter&
state commerce.
The complaint asserts that Davis
and his fellow conspirators on JAM
uary 22, 1911, transported forty-fiH's
+ pounds of dynamite from Bellefon
taine, Ohio, to Indianapolis, over tt
/ Cleveland division of the Big Fous
fsrafirUau On September 8, 1911, il i
alleged, Davis carried thirty pound
of the explosive from New York cit
To Mount Vernon. suburb, an
there blew up part of the railroad
bridge.
Gave sIeuth Written Confession
Foster said that Davis gave hing
a written confession before his ard
rest today.
Bail for Davis was fixed at 100000
The United States district attor-4
news Office gave out this afternooN
what purported 10 be a synopsis Oh
Davis's confession
1t said that ne had done dynaS-ss
miting job at Trenton. \. j.; hads
blown up an Erie railroad bridge ata
Harrison. n. j.: had plotted to bloW{
up the Blackwell's Island bridge Ing
this city, had wrecked a bridge az
Pelham. n, Y. a Baltimore ands
Ohio bridge at Bradshaw. Ind; then
Chelsea pier in the North river here's
had destroyed materials in the yardas
of the Pennsylvania railroad at.
Philadelphia; wrecked a draw bridgea
over the Bronx river. and done siIni-f
lar Jobs in Perth Anboy, \. j.; Sons
erset. Mass. and Providence. r. l.
Foster, the detective. who broughc
about the arrest. has been employed
bv the National Erectors' Association.
and was found guilty in Indianapolis
on March 10. 1912, of assault anks
battery on the person of Prestdenr
Ryan, of the International Associa-s
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron
| Workers.
INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 2-HarrN
Jones, cretary-treasurer of the Inc
ternational Association of Bridges
and Structural Iron Workers was arr
rested here today by a deputy United
States marshal on a charge Of cons
spiracy.
Jones. it is said is implicated in
the confession of George e. Davis.
= 10 was arrested in New York today.
Jones was arraigned in the Federal
Court and his bond fixed at $l0.00of
He had not been able 10 furnish 10
early this afternoon.
Davis it was learned here. is this
O'Donnell who was considered an im-a
portant adjunct to the dynamite cons
spiracy trials here. but who could nou
be found at the time
1t is reported that Davis made hiss
confession two weeks ago in the NeW
York office of Walter Drew, counset
for the National Erector's Associa-e
ton. This followed Davis's DISCHARGES
from a Job in Pittsburgh when 1t is
said. he became sore on the union.
Robert Foster. an Investigator tor
the National Erectors' Association&
got in touch with Davis and it is un-
derstood brought about his confess
sion.
Jones New Figure In Case.
Jones is a new figure in the case<
He formerly was financial secretary
of New York Local No. 40 Of tha'
Iron Workers, and was elected inter-l
E ,
convention held here last january
The affidavit against him. charging
conspiracy 10 transport explosives un-s /,
lawfully, the same charge on whiclH
thirty-eight of his fellow unionistS
were convicted in the Federal Couru.
in this city last December. was mada3
by Assistant United States District'
Attorney Clarence W. Nichols.
United States District Attorney
Charles w Miller, who was in Charge
of the dynamite prosecution here. is
in New York and was in active Charge
of the arrest of Davis today.
AT the headquarters of the inter-
national union here a stenographer
said Jones was the only official in tha
office today. The stenographer said
the other officials, including President
Frank NJ Ryan, who was released
some time ago from the Federal peni-
tentiary at Leavenworth. Kan. ON
bond pending his appeal from convic-
ton here. were travelling in the inter-
ests of the union.