Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-08
McManiqaI Admits Doing It, Receiving $4O0 From
 McNamara For That and Milwaukee Job
McMANIeAL BEFORE THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY
James McNamara Alleged to Have Boasted That He Had Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars and the American Federation of Labor Behind Him-Detective McLaren Tells of the Trailing of McManigl Prior to His Arrest

hundreds of thousands of dollars anC
 the American Federation of Labor
 back of me. It took only $30.000 tc
 clear Vincent Altman of Chicago, anc
 if they could not convict him, they
 can't convict me.
 Caused McManigaI to Confess.
 This boast, attributed today by De- tective Malcolm McLaren to James B AIcNamara as the latter was being taken on a train from Detroit to Chi cago, on the night of April 12 last. caused Ortie E. McManigal, then also under arrest, to become angry with NcNamara for his independent state Inent, and was the first circumstance that led A1cManigal to break from his companion and eventually to confess his connection with various dynamit- ing explosions throughout the country. It also appears from McLaren that It was McManigal who damaged the Springfield Mass, municipal tower with dynamite last spring, and that he received S40o for this job and an other similar one.
 McManigaI Before Federal Grand Jury.
 SIcManigars real confession had been saved for the trials of James B. and John T. McNamara, now under sentence, after their pleas. of life inn priSOnnaent and fifteen years, respect lively, but this evidence as we'll as that which was gathered by the state was turned over today to the United States government The federal grand jury heard McAanigais story all day and will hear more of 1t tomorrow, laying the foundation for the inquiry into the alleged dynamiting conspiracies which has extended from cost to coast in the last three years.
 Other Men Implicated.
 The McNanars were not brought be- fore the federal grand jury, and it may be that McManigaPs story will be re- garded as sufficient and the other two will hn taEan n San O1fa1ffr7 Interrogation here. Details of what McManigal knows of the alleged con spiracy were given to the grand jury today That his story duplicates other men in the International Association ok Bridge and Structural Iron Workers became known from various sources
 Paid for Twenty Jops
 McAIanigal alleges that persons otfl- CT than John J. McNamara, the secre- tary and treasurer, paid him for the twenty jobs of dynaIniting which he says he carried out after 1907. A ques- ton has been raised as to the compe- tency of testimony by convicted fel- ons- and 1t was considered unlikely any, would beeof consequence, because such testimony could not be used in court against those indicted
 McManigal Great Help to Government.
 The testimony of MciAfanigal. how ever, who has. not yet been brought to
  ernment's investigators, and the stats will not try him on the indictments against him until the federal authorl- ties are through. Even then 1t was Attorney Fredericks will recommend his discharge on account of signal ser vice rendered.
 McManigaI Never Killed Anybody.
 AIcManigaI never killed anybody; in fact, he took good cara never to en- Fsar1 t1Trrr1 sf-r 4 Attorney Ford said tonight Malcolm MeLaren, the detective v-ho arrested J. B. McNamara and McMaufgal. and has been in close co-oce-atjon with oscar LaWlers the specially appointed 1 Of the government investi- sations stayed outside the grand jury chamber today, waiting for McMan- fgaL While thus waiting McLaren ] gave version, new in irnFol tant de- 1 tails. of the evidence and circu1n- l stances which led to the arrest of nTkn l Man1ga and McNamara fin Detroit and how the thoughtlessness of flames l b- Namara on the journey from De | trolr 10 Chicago save the detectives ground for persuading McManigaa to | confess. ~
 Several Heard McNama.
 The statements of McNamara were made according to McLa-ea in tba presence of Detectives Guy Biddhnger and William Reed of Chicago. Rev nond Burns, son of William T. Burns, and DfcLaren himself. McJaren save the dates. hours and places of his shadowing of McManigaI for a long period When he confronted LI,.aTan7 lgal with the lznowledee he had tf1ns ! gained. the dynamite- de dded toiabreak From his companions and tell all he kncw.
 Springfield Job in April.
 About the 7th or sth of April last said, T picked up AIcManjgal n bis home in Chicago He had inst rived from Springfield, Mass, where e said he had blown up the rnunicinaI over He had stopped in Indianapolis md, he said obtained s49o from J. T. .fcNannara for the Springfield lob and he one at Milwaukee.
 Shadowed in Chicago.
 We shadowed him tue next day as e went downtown with his wife to He Haoerntan bank Our office hap ,ened to be right acros;s the street and told Mir Burns thatN if he wanted to ret good look at Afc'ManigaI then was lis chance So Burns went out and got goo4 lo9k eP aL him McManigaI then orkers' union and finally home. Saw mcmanieai Buy Pair of Shoes.
 We trailed McNfan1gal and his wife he next day again. they walked ith their children. looking into shop eighborhood for, several days and was frvtid his children. who had seen me lfghr recognize me and call their ia ne~s attention 10 me. I saw AcMani- al bay q pair or shoes which he is ow wearing snd I remember he was inzzed after I arrested him when 1 old him the 5fze Of the shoes he had 1 $ n. how much he paid for them and ( -ho was wfti, him when he bought Hern- i
 Met Mokamars at Toledo
 -fMc1danigal left home carrying a suit 7 SC and l took a train with him to oiedo, keeEHng well away from his s ght When we arrived in Toledo zr2e- E AcN.nsra was waiting for