The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-12-21
NJ FINANCIAL AFRAID
TO STICK TO CROWD
First Dynamiter to Admit His
Guilt Thought He Would
Beat Others to It."

Los Angeles, Cal.-Ortie E. Me-
Manigal was as glib n clipper as
though his one-time friends We're not
ut all near death or long Imprisonment
md as though he himself were free to
do as he pleased.
For more than an hour McManigal
chatted with callers. He said he had
not expected the McNamaras would
admit their guilt so soon. He also de-
clared that Job B.. Hartman, formerly
a defense attorney and leader of the
socialist ticket in the recent election.
knew the McNamaras We're guilty.
This confession was something 1
didn't expect, at least not at this time"
said McManigal. Il always knew that
J. J. would come through sooner or
later. 1 figured that when he found
out how cut and dried the case against
his brother Jim was, he would plead
guilty TO save Jim's life, but I thought
that would come after he had heard
the evidence. or enough Of 1t. Why,
If j. j. had ever seen what Burns
showed me in a little back room In
South Chicago, just after they pinched
stood. Well, his confession makes the
first sensation, but there's another and
q bigger coming. j. ]. isn't the top
Of the ladder. There are other men
higher up"
You mean that some Of the promi-
nent labor leaders will be indicted?"
We'll" continued McManigal. be
fore this federal Investigation is over
they are going to get some others. Jim
was my Immediate boss, Of course, but
j. j. was the works. Jim and 1 Travelled
around together, and Jim used to stop
at my house. He made the first test
OF his clockwork device on the front
door bell of our house, and after that
ne used to sit in our parlor and mako
bombs evenings"
Says His Wife kn.w.
Then your wife knew all the time
What you and Jim We're detng?"
OF course. She knew Jim as +. B
brlce ana as Frank Sullivan, n she
knew what we were doing long ago.
Ihats all stuff about her saying she
turned against me as soon as she knew
L was guilty. Some one has won he,
over or else she was afraid of what
people would think of her If she stuck
by me: h used to get the money
TOO. $500 a job, and put it In the bank.
DO you think that looks as If she
knew what I was doing, and Jim sit
tlng right there IN our house making
bombs? And right here.I want to say
that Job Hartman knew the McNa-
nara nfothers We're guilty, as well as
clarence barrow did, and I suspect
that Clarence Darrow's employer, Sam
Gompers knew it too, though 1 can't
prove that. But I know Hartman
Knew 1T. When the Mcnamara defense
brought my wife and children and my
uncle George out here TO try and win
me over, they and a Mrs. Mcguire. a
friend of my wife, all stayed at JOB
Harriman's house.
He Was Badly Shaken.
My wife knew l was guilty long be-
tore l confessed to Burns. She tried
10 win me over from turning states
evidence by telling me Job Hartman
nad the bag my gun and the clock and
the wire and the other things were In.
| thought they would double-cross me
ana 1 was badly shaken. I have been
oouole-crossed before. You see when
they got me and Jim we had bags with
Us and a lot Of stuff in them bags was
pretty strong evidence, SO l figured that
If this Job Hartman McManigaI NO
inc it Jobb) had my bag. maybe
the state did not have such q strong
case on me as they tried to make ont
we'll found the bag and all was in the
vault at the district attorneys Office
to me. '"s
MY wife gave me just Is minutes 70
tell her I'd see Clarence barrow or to
make UP my mind I'd never see han
n the children again. And I thought
the world and all of those Children
Hartman didn't have the bag, but 7
know my wife had told him what he
knew m she knew all I'd been doing.
.McManigal. what is the real reason
you confessed and turned up the crowd
you nave been running with so lonean
mean, why did I confess to the
5urns people? Well. there was the evil
oence they had against me. Thew had
the real goods on me. But there was .
better reason than that. I had hg1,red
for a long time that I knew too mT,ch
ABOUT j. j. Mcnamara and the bridge
workers, for I had got several hinfs
a9out II. ! was like a man walking
Win the point Of a knife at his bacle
A chap in that fix amt stopping m1ch
lie a got to keep moving ahead. So
l Kept moving along, and all the tfme
l was getting surer and surer that
When they wanted to get rid of me thew
would find a way"
$50 you thought you wo,,,d ha.+
them to it?" oeas
Sure"
You never saw any Indications s,p-
gestlng a slab in the morgue for YOU.
Tic you, Mac7" e'
Mechanical is very fond Of being
called Mac. That is his favorite nams
about the district attorneys ofice.
The "Trick" at Detroit,
Well. / amt SO sure that I ajn.t he
answered slowly. You know they
pinched me just before I was poin1 T.
Iurn hat trick at Detroit. There pas
TOUR explosion in that job, four real
ones and one fake one, Just to throw
a scare Into n of the big men in tha
'erectors. association. All the real ones
we're gong to be shop jobs. There was
20 pe one IN the shops Of the Detroit
Bridge and Iron Works company one
~ the Russell Wheel Foundry. one IN
the American Bridge company and one
IN the Whitehead and Kale shops.
3; said to me before we set ont.
"a aII Grn TINS work is over we will go up
g while hunting. I'll leave you IN there
n come back and pay the MONEY 70
your wife, / said, guess I ain'i ~
strong FOR going into those woods IN
there at I mfghtn't come OH
back, too, - ~
Il would be a damn good place to