The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-10-03
Further Tale of Outrages Re-
vealed by Arrest of Me-
Namara Pal
GEORGE E. DAVIS
TAKEN IN NEW YORK
Tells of Plot to Get William ].
Burns and Walter Drew. Counsel for
Bridge Erectors-Evidence at Indian
apolis Trial Supplemented

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-Dynamite out
RACES that rivaled the exploits of the
Mcnamara brothers and of Ortie Me
Manigal were confessed yesterday by
George +. Davis, a union ironworker.
Davis, who was arrested in this city
yesterday, was the George o Donnell
who figured in the trial at Indianapo
lis that resulted in the conviction of
Frank NJ. Ryan, president of the in
ternational association of bridge and
structural ironworkers, and 81 Of his
associates. His arrest and its conse-
quence round up the work the federal
government started more than two
years ago. when the dynamiting of
bridges and steel frame buildings ali
over the country became national
scandal.
All the explosions that Davis says
he caused were touched on and testi-
fed to at the dynamiters trial in
Indianapolis. but the fact that Davis
caused them remained unrevealed until
he himself told Of it yesterday. Da
Wis s confession resulted yesterday in
the arrest In indianapolis of Harry
Jones, secretarv-treasurer of the iron
workers union. His confession supple
ments the evidence presented at the
indianapolis trial and makes fresh
charges against some Of the men there
convicted and now in prison. Some
OF his revelations concern President
Ryan, who is now out on bail pending
appeal from prison sentence OF seven
wears.
Davis saws he was the man chosen
to kill Walter Drew. attorney for the
national erectors association, in De
cember, 1911, after Drew was charged
with Kidnapping John J. Mcnamara.
1t was suggested also that he try to
get = William J. Burns, the detective
employed by Drew and his associates
TO unearth the dynamite conspiracy
The price on Drew 5 head at that time
Davis said was $5000 II told them,
his confession continues, that
, didn t want to mix up in such bus
mess. Davis consented to return +
: indianapolis without extradition. Hi;
= bail was fixed at $4,000.
= The conspiracy, thought to have
been broken up by the conviction O
RYAN and others. stin exists. according
to Davis : confession. With the eXcep
: ton OF Harry Jones. the men he men
lions in connection with the various
, dynamite jobs already had been ar
/, rested, although his confession indi
! Gated that the government had no
obtained all the discriminating evidence
against these defendants when the.
were tried in indianapolis Davis i
:, the O 'Donnell who was considered Al
important adjunct to the dynamit
conspiracy trials. but who could no
i be found at the time. Jones is a neN
, figure in the case. lie formerly wa
1 financial secretary of New York loca
l. No. 40 of the ironworkers and wa
n elected international secretary-treasul
+ err at the convention held at lndianaI
/. oils last January. The affidavit agalns
t him, charging conspiracy to transpoi
explosives unlawfullv, the same charg
Y upon which IS of his fellow unionist
+ were convicted in the federal court
; Indianapolis last December, was mad
k by Assistant United States District Al
tornev Charles W. Nichols.