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Show M'MAMADA ! STORY TOO! I Motive For Times Ex-! plosion and Details j Made Public Indianapolis. Nov IS For the first tlmo slnco the 'Jl persons were killed in the blowing up of the Los Angelas Times building on October 1, 1010, James B. .McNamara's detailed confession con-fession that he caused tho explosion, with his motives for doing It and hla comments on the fnct that so many persons were killed, was related on the witness stand In the "dynamits conspiracy" trial vesterday. Ortle E. McManlgal testified that the confession was given him while ho was hiding McNamara in the woods five miles from Conover, Wis.. both of them having gone to the Wisconsin Wis-consin woods on the pretext of being hunters. Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco labor leadeis, Mc.Manlgal testified were named b McKamnrn arc having made arrangements arrange-ments for the Los Angeles explosions and as haIng furnished the two mon - F A. Schmidt and David Caplan to assist In buying the high power nltro-gelatln because Schmidt and Caplan had been regularly employeJ on the coast by the building trades council of California Tveitmoe and Clancy are among the 15 defendants. Dynamiters at Large. Caplan and Schmidt, named by ilc-Manigal, ilc-Manigal, were indicted In Los" Angeles An-geles county with James B. McNamara McNam-ara on charges of murder, but thej have never been captured Government Govern-ment agents have becn informed that Caplan was killed When he asked McNamara why ho cwisted off a gas jet In the basement of tho Times building before the explosion ex-plosion McManigal testified that this conversation ensued: McManigal Why did you break off the gas jet? McNamara Because when tho explosion ex-plosion occurred I wanted the whole building to go to hell .McManigal And you knew there were so many people in there, too? McNamara What's the difference'' I was to make a good cleaning out and I did it. But I am sorry so many were killed. I hoped to get General Otis Went Hunting. McManigal said that on Noembrr 5. 1010, he was at his home in Chicago and expected to leave the next dav for Kenosha, Wis , where he was to start with a hunting partj in charge of Marion Sharpo. That cry day he said John J. McNamain. brother of the Los Angeles Time3 dynamiter, asked him to take James B. on the hunting trip. McManigal raid ho had learned that James B had been in hiding on the way back from the Pacific coast and was two weeks with J. E. Munscv in Sail Lake City. Mc said he went to, Kenosha and! James B. Joined him there Thv procured hunting licenses and went with the party to Conover nnd then to a camp five miles in the country j "On November 0,' said McManigal. j "I missed James B. and started ou? alone to look for some deer standing on a tree stump I suddenly heard thrj crack of a pistol, but looking around I saw no one. Everyone was supposed sup-posed to wear a red cap to distinguish people from deer. I saw no red capo but presently i saw James B. Suspicion Sus-picion flashed into my mind, I accused ac-cused him right out- " '1 think you were taking a shot at me.' I said 'If vou do, vou had better be quick about it. This is a fine place up here to get rid of a manj Just shoot him and the coyotes will -eat up his body " i I "He replied that he did it to scare me. Then, we being alone for the j first tlmo he sat down anj told me about the Los Angeles Job. lie said 'when he went to the coast in Julv he got into touch with Tvcitinco aud Clancy, according to instructions from his brother at the headquarters of the iron workers' uniou in Indianapolis In-dianapolis Teitmoe and Clancy, he said, put Caplan and Schmidt at his disposal, because the had becn working for the California building trades council Schmidt was too much of a talker, ho said, and when he blew up a job in Oakland, August 20 he made Schmidt stay in San Francisco "When he returned to San Francisco Fran-cisco Schmidt was wailing for him iand on the strength of the fact that the bombs had been set in Oakland went to see Tveitmoo and got 5500 from him that night. J. I B said he also did tho Seattle job August 31. Times Explodon. "Leading up to tho Los Angeles explosion. T B said he found vou could gel all the money jou wanted Ion the coast. Hc said Tveitmoe was tho big paymaster and there ncer was anything to fear for Tveitmoe waa a friend of Major McCartv and m fact Teltmoe was mayor o'f San Francisco. "Ho said Schmidt had a chance to set off bombs by chemicals which he had learned from a friend of Tvelt-moo's, Tvelt-moo's, but when he (McNamara) showed them the alarm clock scheme they all decided it was be3L Schmidt snd J. B. went to Los Angeles and looked over the Llewellyn and Baker Iro i works plants and the Times building. James B sent back to his brother a postcard on which was partly written and partly printed. it now read: "The Times for the news. It will soon read the news for the times.' "I asked him whj he went after the Times. lie answered that Tieltmoe had put him on to it. Then he told mc about how difficull It was out thero to buy explosives: how they decided at last to get a launch and buy nltrogh Serine nr S5 per cent str'ongth fiom a powder company, on the representation that It was 10 bo used iqr blowing up stumps on a ranch; how he ssut hi" men to arrange ar-range for buying the explosive Attracted Attention. "Ho said the clerk at the powder compan reported they did not make an explosive that strong He told me how a.t last ho got 500 pounds or the explosive on the launch, after changing chang-ing the hame of the launch, and how when they got in the bay they attracted at-tracted the attention of the other essel3 because the bunch would not make any headway and got In the way of others "He said whsp' his stuff was readv to take to Los Angeles he had a talk with Tcltmoo. telling hlni either he or Schmidt would have to do the job alone, not both of them, for Schmidt was too much of a tnlker and had a woman filend in Los Angeles that he) (McNamara) did not want to get mixed up in the job i "Then he told me he had set the bomb in what is known as ink alley' in the Times building in ?ome Ink barrels and old paper. Going in he sild hc was stopped by the night watchman, who asked him what he wanted in there He replied that ho was going to tho composing room. The watchman lot him pass He was again stopped by a bov, but he also told Ihe bov he was going to the composing room Why Gas Exploded. "Tho boy directed him to a door or a stairway 1 think he said. He reached tho basement and while passing along it tore off a gas jet. I asked 'Wl.y did Ou break off the gas jet?' He replied "Because I wanted want-ed the whole building to go to hell.' I said I was surprised he would" do It, knowing there wcic so manv people In the building He anaweicd 'What' tho difference'' I was to make a good cleaning out and I did it.' Then he thought for a -rhile and added- 'But I am sorry there wore so many people peo-ple killed I wanted to get General Otis." "He told me hc put the Infernal machine at the residences of Gen oral Harrison Gr.iv Otis, proprietor of the Times, and of Felix J. Zeo-handlaar, Zeo-handlaar, secretary of the Merchants nnd Manufacturers' association, all to go off nt 1 o'clock in tho morning. He said on the way back east he was frightened by tho pcoule talking of the eplosion. He said ho could not hear to look anybody in the face and hc thought everyone on the train was looking a him" At Salt Lake City, he said, he could not stand it anv longer so he stopped off thp train and got In touch with J. E. Munsey, who hid him in his house for two weeks " |