The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-07-27
JOHN j. MCNAMARA SENDS
GREETING TO THE WORKERS
AND URGES SOLIDARITY
Mrs. McNanigal Still founded and Prosecuted
By Detectives
Ortie McManigel Under the Subtle Influence of
Burns Man McLarian

from Portage, Wis. He says the
story told by Ortie is fantastic and
That he can disprove a part of it;
that Ortie was with, him at the time
some Of the dynamiting was alleged
to have been done by him.
Behme declares Or'tie acts
strangely as if his mind were affect
ed or that he is strangely influenced
| IN some manner. He is convinced
! the detectives are welding a mys-
terious power over the young man
and that he is weak enough to yield
to the Burns men.
Mrs. McManigal says she will
visit her husband no more as it
seems to be a futile task to try to
| persuade him to tell the truth about
| the whole affair She had hoped
that he would abandon the Burns
outfit and tell the whole truth about
the influence the Operatives" are
eXertinS over her husband She be-
| lleves he could shed a great ight on
the methods of the Burns outfit.
Ortle McAlaniSal has lost is
pounds in weight since his confine-
nent in Los Angeles county Jail. He
is thin, saunt and has hunted
| ook. No one but the Burns detec-
tlVes are allowed to speak to him or
to see him. Burns man McLarin
spends couple of hours daily with
the self-alleged dynamiter. 1t is the
common expression among the news
paper men and officials at the Jail
that Ortie is getting his daily les
SON when McLarin calls. Operative
Mills, head of the local Burns head
1,> 80,
the Pinkertons during the Moyer-
Haywood -Pettibone case He knew
! Harry Orchard we'll In comparing
the two 'confessors" he says Ortie
McManiGal is much better subject
than the notorious and discredited
Boise stool-pigeon- Mills says Ortie
viii stand pat and stick to the story
agreed on and that there is little
danger of their man Weakening
Mills has spent much Of his time
| following Mrs McManigal and, ac-
cortling to the attorneys for the de-
| Tense devising new ways of torment
ing the women and her little chill
drcn.
One feature of the case, devised
when Ortie McManigaI was put in a
cell on the side of the Jail overlook
| ing the Temple street entrance to
| the court house. 1t was hoped that
he could shout to his wife as she
| passed on her way to answer to a
| charge of contempt of court She
went into the building by another
entrance and the prisoner c1ung to
| the bars peering in vain onto the
paved street below.
After her ordeal in the courtroom
the woman was assisted to the door.
! Emerging from the Temple Street
entrance the woman tainted and fell
| on the steps. Ortie sa her fall and
! he shrieked like a madman. The
prisoner rushed to his cell door and
| shook it tiercely shouting for the
| jailer to see what was the matter
with his wife. The woman was pick
ed up and carried inside the court
| house and out the other entrance
and taken away in physicians
| automobile. 1t took hours to con-
| vince McManigal that the woman
| had not died under the torment of
| the detectives and the prosecutors
: McManigal's health is brea kine g
badly and it is known the detectives
are afraid he will give way mentally
| before the trial opens.
Burns operatives here are almost
at point of rebellion. They say
| their chief is getting plenty of mon
ey from the Steel Trust but that he
| is not sending it here and that the
have not been paid for severa
| weeks.
The action of the Socialists ir
! threatening the mayor and city
council with Injunction proceeding gs
If any more money was paid tc
Burns has put severe crinp in the
Burns payroll here. Nine Thousand
dollars were returned to the city
treasury and are likely to remai1
there. 4 working class ticket i!
likely to be elected this fall and witt
Job Hartman as mayor it is no
likely any lahor-hating organizatio ior
will succeed in getting any of the
peoples money to pay to detective
agencies
| Through A mistake on the part O
Il news service the impression ha
gone abroad that Corners. Mapl,
and Bender. the striking meta
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