The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-24
Gives Names Of Men Whose
Bombs Took the Lives
of 112 Workmen.
SIX HOURS TELLING STORY
More Than $3,5o0,o0o. Worth Of
Property Destroyed by the
Union Wreckers.

CHICAGO. April 23.-The existence OF a
document setting forth in Its ninety
closely typewritten pages the story of
how the lives OF ii2 men were snuffed out,
how property worth more than $500. 600
was destroyed. how plotters sat in secret
council and condemned to death innocent
wor kingmen. became public to-day.
| I, is the story told by Ottie McManigal
the structural iron worker arrested with
James W. Mcnamara in Detroit The
story was told by McManigal as he sat
! in a bedroom in the home OF City Detec-
tive william II. Reed. eOst Commercial
sv enue. South Chicago. on the night OF
! April l3.
He began talking at midnight and il
was breakfast time when he had finished.
Seated in the bedroom were William
j. Burns. head Of the detective age ncy re-
sponsible for the alleged dynamters'
capture; Detective Reed several opera
tives from the Burns agency and an
official stenographer Of the Police De-
partment.
In an adjoining room Jim Mcnamara
was sleeping. not knowing that his ac-
knowledged confederate was telling OF
their deeds.
The little group in the bedroom sat
spellbound by the horror Of McManigars
tale. He spoke carelessly Of their crimes
and told OF how the explosive was
planted how he had visited union
officials and had been paid for his work.
and Of the explosions in which the three
other members of the band had figured.
When he had finished he lifted his right
hand and swore that he had told the
truth.
This document was in wallet carried
on the person of Assistant District Attor-
ney Ford of Los Angeles. when Captain
of Detectives Stephen Wood turned over
McNianigal and Mcnamara to the Cali
fornia officials at $50 Saturday afternoon
When jim Mcnamara and McManigal
were turned over to the. Los Angeles
officers Saturday afternoon the two
were bundled into big touring car at the
Reed home in South Chicago and under
a guard of Chicago and Los Angeles
detectives they sped southwark toward
the city limits.
Ii was their purpose to board the fier
on the Santa Fe Railroad at Joliet at 8
o'clock Saturday night. but to-day il
was admitted that their plan had been
tipped OF. and fearing trouble from labor
|sympathizers they abandoned the idea
Reports tonight were that the party
WA hidden in little town near Joliet
and expected TO begin the trip early to-
morrow morning. Detective Reed Of the
Chicago department was a member OF
J the party.
After the arrests were made il wal
decided that McManigal was the logica
man TO sweat. The detectives told hin
they were Government agents and tha
he was wanted for robbing safe in {
, postal station at Thirty-frst street anC
Cottage Grove avenue.
McNIanigal was taken into a room ant
auizzed, At first he denied any knowl
edge of the crimes. For twelve hour
he was piled with questions with bu
little rest But shortly after midnigh
he began to break down. Al first hi
story was incoherent. but as he pro
ceeded he told with vividness Of the crime
in which he acknowledged being i'm
plicated.
r He said that Jim Mcnamara. NJ. A
Schmidt and Dave kaplan had taken par
!, in the crimes. He began by telling Of tn
/, first outrages committed by the band
leading up to what he called the first bi
J., lob, the dynamiting Of a railroad bridg
. and ironw orks at Peoria. III. on Septem
Der 4. 1910. Previous to that time. h
: said. he had figured in half dozen smal
, Jobs In all of them save one numbe
, OF men lost their lives.
McMsnigal said that he had beel
selected as one of the men to do the Time
building job. but they had given hin
other work in the central West and h
could not get there in time. He sal
jim Mcnamara, NJ A. Schmidt and Dav
4 Caplan did the job.
7 McManigal went into detail regardin
: all of the jobs. He told how activitie
I had been shifted to Texas and then T.
y South Chicago and later to Milwaukee
: In IA Paso twenty men were killed in a
= explosion.
= When asked to fix the number OF me
$ killed in all the murderous expedition.
McManigal said: Il guess there were
hundred or So" He told of visits I
, indianapolis where he said he saw Joh
! Mcnamara. secretary OF the Information
, Association OF Bridge and Strictur;
= Iron Workers. He says that McNamar
furnished them with funds and with III
! explosive which they used. He ~