Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
DYNAMITER TELLS
OF JERSEY Jobs
Contained from First Page,


: Job about ten days previous to that
and asked me il / didn't want to
make some Christmas money, and I
SAID. Yes, how can / do it?'
He said: There is 5000 left here in
my care that is sent from the inter
national to blow up this bridge at
Harrison, N j. asked him where I
could get the dynamite and he said:
We will go down and see Mike Cum
name at Philadelphia
80 we went down about December
10 and met Mike Cunnane at the hall
and asked him what would be the
chances of getting some Juice, and
Cunnane says: I can get 1T for you,
but 1t will take about three days and
Webb says. All right Then Webb
asked Cunnane how much he wanted
for 1t and Cunnane says $780, and
Webb gave him the $50 in my pres
ence, In a little barroom near the
hall, and I was to come back in three
days and get the dynamite.
Had Dynamite in Suitcase.
so came back on the morning of
Decmeber %, 1907, from New York:
met Cunnane at the hall. Cunnane
already had the dynamite, caps and
luse In suit case. He went to the
car with me, him carrying the suit
case, and then he gave 1t to me.
1 went to the Broad street station
IN Philadelphia and took the first train
to New York, getting there along in
the afternoon on the regular passen-
ger train of the Pennsylvania rail-
road. rode In the smoker from Phil
adelphia to New York. ] went across
The ferry and went up to Sixth ave-
nue. and Fifty-eecond street and left
my grip In a saloon there and at about
o'clock that evening 1 was up in
nd %,
and | went into a dentists at 125th
street and Park avenue and had the
tooth pulled
Il then went down to Fifty-second
street and Sixth avenue and took my
grip with the dynamite and went
across the Pennsylvania ferry to Cort-
landt street to New Jersey and took
Plank road car that runs in a direct
line to the Harrison viaduct job, and
got off the car about half-miIe this
side, on the New York side of the job
That was about 1890.
Il got up to the bridge and saw two
watchmen there, and I walked around
about 200 yards and got up on top of
the bridge and placed the dynamite
under girder that was laying on ton
of the bridge, and also by glrder
that was already set, where I though
Il would do the most damage, and lit
two fuses, about fifteen feet long.
also had the rest of the coil of fuse
with me; that was one hundred feet to
start with in the coil and some extra
caps.
"I went down the tracks about 200
yards and waited until l thought it
was time for the explosion to occur,
and 1t didn't go off, and / waited then
about half an hour. then fixed two
more caps with fuse and cut them
about the same length and then went
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dynamite. Then I went back and sat
down about 200 yards off, and 1t ex-
ploded. That was on the night of the
23d this happened.
ION the morning of December "a I
went to Webb's house, at 1881 street,
near Third avenue, went up to his
apartment and we talked little while
and he says: 7 got the morning pa
per and see you done the trick He
says: Let's go down to the corner
and we went down to the saloon at the
corner of 125th street and Third ave-
nue., and he gave me the balance of
what was left HE had given Cunnane
$50 for the dynamite at Philadelphia
and paid the expenses Of our trip to
Philadelphia, and that left about $3.50
of the 5000 and he paid me the bal
ance at this time and l gave him $50
for himself as Christmas present.
"At this time Webb said to me: DO
you want to so ahead with this kind
of work?' l said, Yes He said All
right. | believe we are doing good
work to get some more OF those
Jobs. But he says: I can't do any
thing more until I see how / am go
ing to come out on the executive
board There was to be a meeting OF
the executive board at Philadelphia or
Washington, at which he was going to
attend, SO he said, and little later
fa1A
effect that I got what / was after,
and I understood this telegram to
mean that he was reelected, or was
TO continue to serve as MEMBER OF
the executive board.
I'VE talked to Cunnane about get
ting more dynamite, and he said ne
could get us all we wanted-a carload,
7 believe he mentioned-'but the next
hatch will cose you $780, After we
left C,unnane / said to Webb: 1 will
moi nav Cunnane no $500 for dynamite,
as 1 am only getting $500 for blowing
up the jobs a.,
Z In regard to the Perth Amboy job,
Davis says.
plans Perth Amboy Job.
Webb told me to go ahead on the
Perth Amboy job, as that job was
nearing completion. ! called Milan
M at Easton on the phone and told
him what | wanted, and in place of
him having it for me when L got there
TO Easton he took me down that eve
ming and bought it for me at WOOD
and coal yard, about forty pounds,
and the man said he didn't have 1t in
at present, so we had to wait two
hours.
IT left that evening and came in a
direct route from Easton to Perth
Amboy and ! got in there about 10
o'clock, and 1t was about half a mile
out to the bridge, and | went out to
the bridge with the dynamite.
walked over the Orders to the span
and out about half way, with the in
tention of putting 1t on the pier and
running the shoes, or rollers, but there
were two Watchmen up in the tower
lust above, about twenty feet, that
started to talk, and l see them and
went back to the end of this span and
nut it in--put the dynamite In the
batter post of the bridge.
81 had fixed my caps and fuse In the
dynamite before leaving Easton, so I
lust had to take 1t out of my grip
and put it in the post. The post was
large enough for me to get into and
to prevent the light from being seen
bv the watchmen while was lighting
my fuse. | placed my overcoat over
the mouth of the hole that | was in.
The fuses were about twenty feet
long each L lit one, and could not
get the other to go, so l would cut
off the one that was burning and the
same amount off of the other, to get
them both the same length, and then
try 1t again.
is.T KENT cutting off the fuse until 1T