Evening journal., 1911-04-28
CASE AGAINST
M'NAMARAS
MCManigaI Makes a CORfeS.
sion to Los Angeles Dis
triCt Attorney
SAYS JAMES M'NAMARA
SET eff TIE TIMES BOMB

BY The United Press.
LOS ANGELES. Cal. April 2s.--
With all the alleged details furnished
by Ortie McManigal in his confession
Of yesterday, District Attorney Fred
ericks today began preparing the
States case against John j. and James
Mcnamara on charges Of dynamiting
tho plant of the Los Angeles Times
last October.
The stenographers under Fredericks'
personal direction today made five
copies OF the confession in which Nc
Manigal alleged that So dynamiting
jobs. involving property amounting to
$4.000.000 had been performed since
1903.
McManigal declared that James Nc
Namara alone. dynamited the Los An
geles Times building and that the
other suspects. Caplan and Schmidt.
we're not In Los Angeles at the time.
having only acted as accomplices in
securing the necessary dynamite
from the Giant Powder plant
McManigal declared that James
Mcnamara was actually on a train
! four hours out toward San Francisco,
when the Times explosion occurred.
but that this remoteness from the
scene was made possible by the clock
work apparatus attached TO the bombs
used
The Official Paymasier.
McManigal asserted that John J. Nc
Namara was the guiding spirit Of all
the dynamitings and was also the Of
| fetal paymaster John Mcnamara
know the value Of the time clock
dynamiting plan and urged the use OF
this device on all occasions. accord
ing 10 the confession McManigal de-
clared John always pointed out that
only in this way could the dynamiters
prove an alibi.
McManigal asserted further that he
always got 5000 I'm advance of each OK
plosion and more later, sometimes
bringing the total payments for a
single explosion up 10 81 ,000.
McManigal was cool throughout hi
whole statement. Today he asked tn
authorities not TO permit any iabo
y leaders to see him.
Y Say Confession Is liilated.
y Although Attorney Hilton and n
associate. Job Hartman, today admit
ted that Ortle McManigal one of IN
= three prisoners brought here I'm con
nection with the Los Angeles dynamit
ing had made complete confession
regarding his alleged participation n
the affair." counsel for the defense as
sert that such a confession VIII be use
less I'm a trial
Hilton declares he has already viii
ated II by getting a denial from Nc
Manigal I'm the presence OF competent
witnesses.
According to Fredericks. the most
important dynamiungs McManigai
confessed, were:
.19O6-October 10, engine p. " Com
pany Railroad Clarion, Pa. October
80. Baltimore and Ohio bridge, Youngs-
town. Ohio
19O7-December 81, Cleveland Short
! Line bridge. Lucas county, Ohio.
.l90S-April /, tried to dynamite
Blackwells Island bridge. New York
p August 6, Illinois Central bridge ovel
Calumet river, Chicago; September
is. tried to dynamite hoisting engine
p on the Chicago Junction Railroad
December 8. steel corporations house
, Struthers, Ohio.
! 191O-October 1, Los Angeles Times
! dynamiting; October 8, West End Ho
tel. Kansas City; October 10, Charles
X. Henry, residence. Portland, Oregoni
December 25, Llewellyn Iron Works
! Los Angeles
1911-February "a, Iroquois Iron
Works. South Chicago; March 1. West
ern Fuel Company, Milwaukee; Marcf
25. coal hosting plant, erected by
Heyl g. Patterson Company; April l
municipal building, Springfield, Mass
MIR. WILMOT AT HILLCREST.
The Rev. Arthur A. Wilmot will
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