Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — PROBE VAST DYNAMITE PLOT [ARTICLE]

PROBE VAST DYNAMITE PLOT

Grand Jury Delves Into McNamara Plan for Simultaneous Explosions, Indianapolis, Jan. 19. Ortle McManlgal's assertion that J. J. McNamara, just before the dynamiting Of the Ix>s Angeles Times building, planned to have “six or eight men stationed about the country to blow up places on a wholesale basis," was investigated by the federal grand jury. Several men, who are alleged to have received proposals from McNamara during 1910,' when 'twenty-five explosions occurred, were examined. Their appearance followed the dismissal as a witness of Frark Eckhoff of Cincinnati, an acquaintance of McNamara.