Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-01
JouRNA1-MNER WEDNESDAY MORNING JANUARY

B. explained about the alarm clock
 arrangement by which we in the
 future were to regulate the time for
 exploding bombs. A few days later
 Hockin wired me to come to Indian
 apolis, where he and I and ]. J. Me
 Namara fully went over the clock
 scheme. With it I went to Mt.
 Vernon, H., and pulled off a job on
 a power house, for which Hockin
 paid me SIPS"
 It was in the summer of 1910 when
 explosions were frequent that Me
 Manigal said his relations with
 Hockin were broken off because he
 discovered Hockin had been keep
 ing part of his pay. About that same
 time witnesses said Hockin began to
 give information about the dyna- miters.
 Edward Smythe, of Peoria, III, also was accused by McManigal as
 having personally pointed out jobs be blown up. A hotel keeper re- lated that after the explosion Smythe examined the hotel register, and lat CT the page on which McManigal had registered was found to be torn out McManigal said Smythe arranged to go to theatre the night of the ex- plosion and prove an alibi by keep ing the seat checks.
 President Ryan, Of the iron work CTS union, and all the other defend ants were charged with being prin- cipals to the conspiracy through the writing of letters. Ryan's defense was that the McNamaras and those who confessed alone knew that a "dynamiting campaign" was being carried on, and that the executive board members did not know what Secretary McNamara did with the SlOcO monthly appropriated for his use without his being required to give an accounting.
 Beyond doubt the testimony which attracted keenest interest was that which related to the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times" building That man could deliberately buy 800 pounds of high explosive with the purpose only of destroying prop erty gave unusual zest to that part of the story
 Unrestricted by the court, the gov ernment went into every available detail of James B. McNamara's ac- tivity on the Pacific coast which was considered essential to the charges here. The dynamiter's arrival in San Francisco, after he left his brothers office in Indianapolis in July, 1910, | his accompanying McManigal as far as Chicago, his sending back to Me Manigal a postcard giving him greetings from the far west. and saying, "The best of friends must part" the dynamiter's wanderings about San Francisco, his meeting with Clancy in Seattle, his taking | lessons" from an electrical expert in l Seattle in how to set off a bomb by 1 spark instead of by a fuse, his causing an explosion in Seattle. and his return to San Francisco prepara- | tory to going to Los Angeles, were all traced.
 A woman in San Francisco who l rented room to McNamara. a wo- ! man who rented room to Schmidt. | and another woman friend of Cap Ian, telephone operators who con nected McNamara with the powder l company which sold him the nitro gelatine, the men from whom he, Schmidt and Caplan rented the | launch used to carry the explosive; a clerk who sold the aluminium let ters by which the name of the launch | was disguised; a man who rented the house in which the 500 pounds | ot nitrogelatine was stored in San Francisco; a clerk in a hotel in Los to whom McNamara bid good night" at about 7 o'clock at night, after the bomb had been set in Ink alley" in the Times" build ing, and policemen who ran to the wreck after the building was de- stroyed and McNamara had fled, all testified
 In connection with the explosion the story of William J. Burns was given. His son, Raymond J. Burns, also related how detectives had Me Namara and McManigal pointed out to them on Nov 6, 1910, five months and six days before the arrests were made. In the meantime these dyna- miters were followed on a hunting triD tO northern WiccOpein L,,@ ,ba,,