Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-01
HISTORY OF THE
 DYNAMITE CASE
(Continued from Page Four.)

Gray Otis, proprietor of the
 Times" that the dynamiter was
 sent to the coast at the solicitation
 of Tveitmoe, a recognized union la
 bor leader, and that Tveitmoe fur nished David Caplan and M. A.
 Schmidt, who were also indicted for
 murder, but who never were cap tured.
 All the 100 explosions came in for scrutiny by the jury here, and the
 field of operations extended from
 Boston to Los Angeles.
 "Who caused those explosions ?''
 was the question before the jury
 Broadly the charges were that J. J. McNamara began them and
 thought them an effective means of fighting "open shop" contractors. Make the damage as heavy as pos sible," McManigal said always were his instructions. Hundreds of thou sands of dollars worth of property
 wes said to have been destroyed.
 Finding the maintenance of a hired "dynamiting crew" cost money, Mo Namara is alleged to have appealed to the union for funds, and in this way, the government charged, others became implicated. For instance the government set out that the union executive board decided at last to allow McNamara Sl000 a month, for which he would be re- quired to give no accounting Let ters also were written which, the government asserted, showed cer- tain business agents, recognizing the "dynamiting crew" as a regular in stitution, sent word as to what jobs should be blown up. All the in dicted officials were declared by their letters to be linked together in guilt"
 That was the case the government at the opening of the trial, asserted it had to place before the jury. It was stated that the trial, in the mum Der of defendants, in the fact that the defendants were allied with la Dor unions, in the nationwide ex- tent Of the conspiracy, and in its ramihcations, was unprecedented McManigars confession, detailing twenty-one explosions which he said he personally caused, was scrutinized to determine in what minute partic- ulars corroborative witnesses were needed
 The witnesses came from almost every city Dozens of them were brought from the Pacific coast to re- main on the stand only a few min utes. A curly-headed, dimple-cheek- ed girl, garbed in pink dress, was called from North Randall, O., to point out in the court room Peter ]. Smith and George (Nipper) Ander- son, of Cleveland, as men she saw going up lonely road with box shortly before an explosion at North Randall. A mechanic came from Hawaii to tell of overhearing cer- tain Of the defendants discuss pro posed explosions in Detroit An en- gineer came from Panama to recount his experiences with Hockin. Men who drove livery wagons, check boys in railway stations, who cared for suit-cases, filled with internal machines, hotel clerks who booked" the McNamaras and McManigal for rooms, detectives, stenographers, con- tractors who suffered from explo- sions, and telephone operators, all related peicemeal their knowledge of the defendants conversations or movements, which the government undertook to weave into a complet- ed story to show at once the indi- vidual guilt of each, and the col lective guilt ot all the defendants.
 One by one the defendants heard the charges repeated against them.
 Tveitmoe heard his name men toned often. He was accused as having furnished Caplan and Schmidt to help blow up the Times" build ing. He was named as having sent word to McNamara the month after | the explosion that things were all right on the coast" and as having requested the dynamiters again be sent to Los Angeles, later acknowl- | edging another explosion there on Dec. g, 1910, as "a Christmas pres ent." McManigal said he called at Tveitmoe's office in San Francisco but met only Eugene A. Clancy there. Anton Johannsen was men tione by witnesses as having helped |