The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-08
N 'MANIGAL
TELLS STORY
CONSUMES ENTIRE DAY RELAT-
ING DYNAMITE PLOTS TO THE
FEDERAL GRAND JURY.
Chief investigator For Government
Says Next Arrest Will be Soon
and a Man Well Known in
in Labor World.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. tive
got hundreds of thousands of dollars
and the American Federation OF La
Dor back of me. 1t took only $50, 900
to clear Vincent Altman of Chicago.
and ig they couldn't convict him,
they can't convict me-
This boast, attributed To-Day by De
tectiye Malcolm McLaren to James
b. Mcnamara as the latter was be
ing taken ON train from Detroit
to Chicago, on the night of April
~ last. caused Ortie K MeManigaL
then also under arrest to become an
gered with Mcnamara for his inde
pendent statement and was the first
circumstance that led McManigal to
break from his comp;nion and even.
tually to confess to his connection
with various dynamiting explosions
throughout the country.
McManiga's real confession had
been saved for the trials of James
b. and John j. Mcnamara. but this
evidence, as well as that which had
been gathered by the state was purn
ed today over to the government.
The federal grand jury heard Nc
Manigal's story all day and will hear
more OF Is tomorrow. laying tne
foundations FOR the probe into the
ALLEGED dynamitlng conspiracies that
extended from coast 10 coast in the
last three years The McNamaras
were moi brought before the federal
grand jury and it may be that Nc
Manigal's story will be regarded as
sufficient or that the two Will be TAX
en- to ssn Quentin without interro-
cation here
Details of what McManigal knows
of the alleged conspiracy were given
to the grand jury today. That his
story duplicates other men in the
international Association OF Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers became
known through various sources.
McManigal alleges persons other
than John Mcnamara. the secretary
and treasurer paid him for the twen-
ty "jobs of dynamiting which he
says he accomplished since 1907.
The story Of McManigal who has
not yet been brought to trial, will be
of great value to the government
and the state will not try him until
the federal authorities are through.
Then It was stated on good authority,
District Attorney Fredericks will re-
commend his discharge
Malcolm McLaron, the detective,
who arrested J. B. Mcnamara ana
Mechanical, and who has been in
close cooperation with Oscar Lawler,
prsecutor of the government inyesti
CATION, stayed outside the grand jury
chamber today waiting for McMani-
gal. While thus waiting, McLaren
gave a version, nov in important
details of the evidence and circum
stances. which led up to the arrest
of McManigal with Mcnamara in De-
troit and how the thoughtlessaess OF
J. B. Mcnamara on the journey from
Detroit to Chicago, gave the detec-
tives ground for persuading McMani-
gal 10 confess.
The statements of Mcnamara were
made, according to McLaren in the
presence of Detectives Guy Biddinger
ead William Reed of Chicago, Ray
mond Burns, son of William J. Burns
and McLaren.
McLaren gave the dates hours ano
places of his shadowing of McMani
gal for long period. When he con
frcnted McManigal with the kyow.
ledge he had thus gained, the dyn-
amiter decided to break from his
companion and tell all he knew.
About the seventh or eighth O.
April last" McLaren said, Il picked
up McManigal in his home in Chica
go. He had just arrived from Spring
field, Mass, where he later said HI
had blown up the Municipal Tower
He had stopped in indianapolis an
he said later, obtained s4OO from ] J
Mcnamara for the Springfield jol
and che at Milwaukee.
I'VE shadowed him the next ia,
as he went Gown town with his wifi
to the Hibernian Bank. McManiss
then went 10 the headquarters of tn