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Show DYNAMITE SCOFFEB AT McN a m a r as Thought Explosive Too Weak to Be Effectve. Indianapolis, Oct. 24. How J. J. McNamara aud Ortie McManigal carried car-ried awaj nltro-glycerin by the wag-onloud wag-onloud was described by Charles C. Klser at the trial of the accused "dynamite "dy-namite plotters" yesterday. Klser, who now lives at Tulsa, Okla , was manager of a plant for the manufacture man-ufacture of explosives at Albany, lnd , whon in 1908, he said, the dynamiters began buying nitro-glyceriu from him and hauling It away In wagons to Muncie, lnd. The government, in charging the forty-five men on trial with complicity, says that the Mc-Namaras Mc-Namaras resorted to nitro-glycenn In blowing up jobs after they found dynamite dy-namite was not strong onough and that they lented n houte Li Munclo to hido the explosive. "One day, in response to a telephone tele-phone call from Indianapolis." KIsor said, "T met J. B McNamara at Muncie. Mun-cie. He represented himself as bem George .T. Clark, a contractor of Peoria, Peo-ria, 111., and said he wanted nitroglycerin nitro-glycerin to blow up some ditches near Indianapolis. Pie said he bad tried dynamite and it was not strong enough I agreed to sell him twenty quarts and I delivered it at a farm three miles from Albany on the roau to Muncie. - "A month later he bought thirty quarts. I didn't hear anything from him until a year later when ho and McManigal bought 120 quarts. When I took It to the farm they had two rigs waitiug and had prepared twelve boxes in which to pack the cans. Afterwards Af-terwards 1 wrote to Clark at the address ad-dress at Peoria, but the letter was returned," Boxes Are Found. The boxes referred to by Klser later were found in the house in Muncie, which the government charges charg-es was rented by Herbert S. Ilookin, now secretary of the International Association As-sociation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. Children of the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, thinking the house vacant, en tored It to play and. according to the government's charges, skated over the floors near where explosives were stored. John W. Ghllon, foreman of a construction con-struction company, described three explosions on the same job at Cincinnati" Cin-cinnati" in 1909. He said after 'two of lho explosions Edward Clark, who had pleaded guilty, visited the job and said: "If you don't put union men on there we'll fix jou:" Ghllon described two explosions on ijobs In Cleveland. In Ip05. At one of them in September, on a railway viaduct, via-duct, ho said, a satchel containing 12 sticks of dynamite fuse and a clock that evidently had been thrown out of ii passing train was found. ' William H. Medley, Fail River. 1 Mass , a police officer, told of tho I blowing up of a bridge across lho Taunton river, in April. 130S, when I pieces of fnso were found. The testimony so far hag been regarded re-garded as preliminary to that to bo given by McManigal rind later wit-1 nesses. |