The Detroit times., 1911-04-25
|RRE!T m DETROIT
|Of DYNAMlTERs
IRREGULAR
Men Would Have Been Hustled Out
Of City Without Legal Formal
ties Had Not q Local Of
Acer Interfered.
Detroit Sleuths Are Coed and Sore
On Chicago Officials For Hid
ing the Real Facts.

n That complications OF serious as
Ipect are liable to follow in the wake
iof accusations made against the pair
iarrested here under the names OF
iortie McManigal and Frank ]. Sulli-
Ivan, Is the belief or Detroit police OH
Gals, who UP until Sunday were lead
Ito believe that the men arrested here
were wanted as safe blowers, instead
iof being accused OF being the head OF
Ian organized wrechng gang OF dis
igruntled unionists.
Now that the real story OF the ar
rest of the two men has come through
Chicago channels, some interesting
facts are revealed In Detroit anent
the arrest OF the two men. The most
lstartling phase of the Detroit story Is
that Detectives Reed and Biddinger, or
the Chicago police department, made
desperate attempt to smuggle their
,captives onto Michigan Central train
bound for Chicago, without the usual
formality OF taking their men TO the
central police station here and allow
ing them their constitutional privilege
OF fighting extradition.
The second phase OF the matter that
is likely to lead to complications IL
the fact that the men were taken back
TO Chicago as safe-blowers and not as
xreckers. which is the charge against
them now.
Detroit officers, naturally a little
piqued at not being taken into the
confidence OF the Chicago sleuths, are
questioning the methods employed by
the Chicago police.
Had 1t not been for the alertness or
Patrolman Frank Cary, stationed at
the Michigan Central depot, McMani-
gal and Sullivan would have been hus-
tied through the gate at the Michigan
Central depot and would have been
placed aboard q Chicago train, without
Detroit officers being any the wiser
for Il.
As It happened. the two were gath.
cred In by Reed and Biddinger after
a sensational episode at the Oxford
hotel, where both officers pulled re-
volvers on their captives. From the
Oxford. they were marched hurriedly
TO the Michigan Central depot.
At the depot, Mechanical and Sullt
van protested against such treatment.
They declared the police had no right
to drag them away from Detroit IN
that manner. There we're some hot
words between the two and the atten-
ton OF Patrolman Frank Cary was
attracted. The prisoners appealed TO
him and Cary remarked that he did
rot think the Chicago detectives had
right to drag the prisoners away
without first escorting them to police
Headquarters. y-t-y
The whole battle ended In Cary
taking charge of the prisoners and
bringing them to the central station.
It now develops. that Detectives FOX
and Downey, who were credited with
the arrest of the two men, had
nothing whatever to do with it. Their
escort the two prisoners from the de-
tectiye bureau In the central police
station to the cell block In the base
ment OF the building. 49, 80
4 As the story Is told here now, a
detective from the Burns agency was
with Mechanical and Sullivan when
the arrest was made. This detective
was disguised as q hobo and was
known to the detectives Of the Chit
cago bureau because his right wrist
was tied up in a bandage as II that
member had been injured.
Reed and Biddinger Swallowed Nc
Manigal, Sullivan and the Burns de-
tective to the Oxford hotel. after the
trio had come In here from Toledo.
II was here that Reed and Biddinger
pulled guns on the two men.
The detectives here question the
right OF the Chicago police to take
their prisoners back 10 Chicago on
q charge which they say was trumped
up.