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NEWSPAPER DYNAMITED,
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. [Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright! [United Press Association.] , New York, October 2. Dynamiters wrecked the newspaper offices at Condersport, Pennsylvania, following the local campaign conducted by the “Potter enterprise.” The employees left a short while previously. No lives were lost. The building is partly in ruins, George Davis has been arrested, charged with dynamiting the Newhaven railway bridge during the labo ! dynamiting campaign throughout tin United States in 1911. Davis is alleged to have conspired with the Macnamaras to wreck other railway structures in pursuance of a campaign oi terrorism planned by the Bridge am Structural Ironworkers’ Union.
New York, October 3,
Davis’s confession- of dynamiting caused the arrest of Harry Jones, a Indianopolis, secretary of the Iron Workers’ Union. It is understood that his confession also discloses tin names of men told off' to kil\ Detective Burns and others engaged i; tracking the dynamiters. Davis de dares that a dynamite conspiracy stil exists though it is inoperative through measures being taken to im prison the ringleaders. A gigantic scheme was planned while the McNamaras were imprison ed, to destroy buildings in New York Saint Louis, San Francisco and Okla homa, in order to create the impres sion that the McNamaras were no responsible for the dynamiting? wherewith they were charged.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 29, 4 October 1913, Page 5
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216BLOWN UP! Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 29, 4 October 1913, Page 5
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