The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
SAYS He DID IT.
Under Sheriff Says McManigal
Confessed to Him
That He Dynamited the Lew
ellyn Iron Works.
CONFESSION DENIED
By Attorney for the Prisoner
After a Conference.
Mrs. Ingersoll Fails to Identify
Mcnamara as Bryce.

Los Angeles, April 27.-The question
as to Ortie E. McManigaPs confession
of the dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron
works of this city was at least partial
Iy solved today when Robert Brain.
undersherif of this county, who had
charge of McManigal in the transcon-
tinental trip just ended. said that the
prisoner had voluntarily confessed to
him while on the train.
According to Brain, McManigal
brought up the subject last Monday
morning, the second day out from Chi
cago, by asking what punishment
would be given him of he were to turn
states evidence.
st am not in a position to tell you"
was Brains reply "Are you going to
do it?'
YES" answered MECHANICAL. I'm
going to tell"
What are you going to tell?' asked
Brain.
"An about it." said McManigal.
you know what you are charged
with?" continued Brain.
Yes. 1 am charged with dynamiting
the plant Of the Llewellyn Iron works. )"
did you do it?"
"Sure I did it,
what did you get for it?''
1.-TWO hundred dollars" responded
McManigal THAT is the price for all
such jobs"
"Do you know Bryce?" was Brains
next question.
Yes, know him."
''How long have you known him?"
about a year and a half"
Then MECHANICAL said he would stop
talking.
sAIl right. Mae said Brain. 'I am
not trying to coerce you. Do as you
like about it. That's your right
When I get out there I'll tell all
about it," concluded Mechanical.
The subject was dropped and not
taken UP again.
Confession Is Denied.
Shortly after noon Attorney Hilton
emerged from the Jail after confer
ence with the prisoners. He said Nc
Manigal denied in the presence of wit
nesses that he had made any confess
sion whatsoever and said that state
ments to that effect were unqualifiedly
false.
trict attorney where at 1880 he had
been for two hours in the presence OF
shorthand reporter.
Hilton said he would not be sur
prised If McManigal had confessed to
the district attorney, but such confess
sion, he said, would be vitiated by the
statement Mechanical had made to him
and others in the Jail denying such
confessions. @7s7Aza& p
-. Mrs.eD.- H Ingersoll of San Fran
cisco, in whose lodging house the man
she knew as j. b. Bryce, who is
charged with. the actual dynamiting of
the Times building here, was taken
into the jail today to see If she could
identify James D. Mcnamara as Bryce.
Mrs. IngersoIl and John d. Fredericks,
district attorney. went to the Office of
the Jail and waited there while Under
Sheriff Brain brought McNamara from
his cell.
To give Mrs. Ingersoll full opportun-
ity to decide upon McNamara's ident-
ity, Fredericks contrived a seemingly
official conversation with the prisoner
lasting several minutes. He informed
Mcnamara of the iatter's legal rights,
goin0 into details upon the formalities.
While Mcnamara was talking with
Fredericks, Mrs. Ingersoll stood at one
time in the room, apparently unob-
served by Mcnamara, and gazed stead
lastly at the accused man.
No Recognition.
Brain said that there was not SEM
blance of recognition between them and
! it is declared that Mcnamara did not
know why he was taken before the dis
trict attorney.
Mrs. Ingersoll left the Jail with Fred
| ericks, who refused to reveal Mrs
| IngersolPs decision in the matter OF
| identity. No one was permitted by the
district attorney to see Mrs. Ingersoll.
Job Hartman of Los Angeles and o. N.