Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-09
HISTORY: OF DyNAM|7ING
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investigation of the dynamite out
RACES in the east for a month before
the Times building was blown up
And here again trivial thing proved
of the greatest Importance. hand
full of saW1lst, of peculiar color and
cut. found in a box near another un'
exploded bomb which was picked up
after an explosion in the railroad
yards at East Peoria. Ill.,, led to the
discovery that a man named J. w.
McGraw had purchased large guam
tity Of nitroglycerin ostensibly for
a man whom he said was G. w. Clark
of Indianapolis. McGraw was shad-
owed. In December he disappeared
from mis- haunts, and on Christmas
Gay Los Angeles received another
shock. the Llewellyn Iron Works,
one of a number of concerns involved
in controversy vita its striking un-
ion employees, was partially wrecked
by an explosion. Telling of his work
afterwards Burns said his men fol-
lowed McGraw to his home in Chi
cago. and there learned that his real
name was McManigal. McManigal
confessed later that it was he who
had blown up the Llewllyn plant.
One day McManigal went to Ke-
nosha, Wis, and the detectives con.
stantly following him saw him meet
a man who resembled the descrip
ton of J. b. Brice, accused of the
Times outrage. This man proved to
he James B. Mcnamara, brother of
the secretary-treasurer of the Inter-
national Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. McManigal
and Mcnamara met again in Toledo
on April II, and on April IL they
were arrested in Detroit.
The two prisoners were hurried
from the Michigan city to hiding
place in Chicago, and upon telegraph
ic advices from Burns, the grand jury
in Los Angeles returned secret in
dictments against McManigal and
the Mcnamara brothers. Requisition
and extradition papers were obtained
with the utmost secrecy from Govern.
or Hiram Johnson Sacramento and
Assistant District Attorney w. Jo-
seph Ford of Los Angeles. with De.
tective James Hosick, hurried to In
dlanapolis. Meeting Burns and his
men there on April %, they went
straight to the Offices the Bridge
straight to offices of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers association
and arrested John j. Mcnamara.
In an hour or two the formalities
of arraigning him before justice
and filing the extradition papers
were gone through, and Mcnamara
was on his way to Los Angeles
The news of his arrest was flashed
to the waiting Burns lieutenants in
Chicago, and with equally feverish
haste John B. Mcnamara and McMan-
igal were started on their transcon-
tinental journey to prison, the two
parties met in Dodge, Kan, and ar
rived here together April 26.
Ford remained in indianapolis and
was arrested on the charge of having
kidnapped John J. Mcnamara. Burns
and Hosick were afterward indicted
on the same charge and both were
held in $4,000 bonds for trial.
Efirts were then made by Burns
and his men to identify their prison
ers, the, two McNamaras- and Nc
Manigal, with the three men, Bryson,
Morris and Leonard, who purchased
the 1000 pounds of dynamite in San
Francisco.
McManigal was taken before the
grand jury on May and made a
sworn statement. What he told the
grand Jury came out on July IS, when
the attorneys for the defense to save
Mrs. McMaDigal from being adjudged
in contempt fir having refused to an
sWer questions in the grand Jury
room. used a certified copy of his al
legged confession.
In this confession McManigal de-
clared he had come to California to
destroy the auxiliary plant of the
Times, but finding it guarded, blew
of the Llewllyn works instead. He
asserted he first met James B. McNa-
mara in indianapolis in the summer
OF 1910 The following November
the two were hunting in the woods
near Conover, Wis, and he swore
James then told him that he had
blown up the Times, and that when
in California he had been known as
]. B. Brice.
About the time this confession"
was given to the grand jury, John
}. Mcnamara issued from the Jail
statement declaring his innocence
and expressing confidence that trial
would result in the vindication of
himself and brother He refused to
comment on the Mechanical "confes-
sion"
1t is by this confession" however
that the district attorney hopes to
show the connection of John J. Nc.
Namara with the alleged conspiracy.
But the attorneys for the defense de.
Clare that they are unworried and
untroubled by any fears as to testi-
mony on matters of fact.
McManigals confession, as given
to the grand jury, they maintain,
was mere hearsay. and sending his
wife. Mrs Emma McManigal. into the
legal lists against him they declare
they will tear into shreds his charac-
ter and his reputation. With McMan.
igars reputation for probity and
veracity destroyed the defense counts
on rendering valueless not only his
testimony concerning the Times ex-
plosion but also all of his confessions