The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-08
His Confession Turned Over to Government With
 Other Evidence
M'MANIGAL BEFORE
 THE GRAND JURY
]. B. McNamara Said to Hove Boasted That He Had the Federation of Labor Back of Him.
 Tried Bribery


 Los Angeles, December five got American Federation of Labor back of me. Tt took only s300O0 to clear Vincent Altman, of Chicago, and if they could not convict him, they can't convict me"
 This boast, attributed today by Detec- tive Malcolm McLaren to James B. Me- Namara, as the latter was being taken on train from Detroit to Chicago on the night of April 12 last, caused Ortie E. McManigal, then also under arrest, to become angered with McNamara for his independent statement and was the first circumstance that led McManigal to break from his companion, and eventually to confess to his connection with various dynamiting explosions throughout the country.
 McManigal'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 turned over today to the government.
 The federal grand jury heard McMani-
 
 gals story all day and will hear more of 1t tomorrow, laying the foundations for the probe into the alleged dynamting conspiraces that extended from coast to coast in the last three years. The Me Namaras were not brought before the federal grand jury and it may be that MeManigals story will be regarded as suffcent and the other two will be taken to San Quentin without interrogation here.
 Details of what McManigal knows of the alleged conspiracy were given to the grand jury today. That his story impli- cates other men in the International hs- sociation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers became known through various sources.
 McManigafs Story
 McManigal alleges that persons other than John J. McNamara, the secretary and treasurer paid him for the 20 jobs" of dynamiting which he says he accom- plished since 1907.
 The story of McManiga, 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 author ities are through Eye1 then, it was stated tonight on good authority, District Attorney Fredericks will recommend his discharge.
 Malcolm Mcfaren, the detective who ar rested J. B. McNamara and McManigal and who has been in close cooperation with Oscar Lawer prosecutor of the government investigation, stayed outside the grand jury chamber today waiting for McManigal. While thus waiting, Me l.aren gave a. version, new in important details of the evidence and circumstances which led up to the arrest of McManigal with McNamara in Detroit and how the thoughtlessness of James B. McNamara on the journey from Detroit to Chicago gave the detectives ground for persuad- ing McManigal to confess.
 The statements of McNamara were made, according to McLaren, in the presence of Detectives Guy Biddinger and William Reed of Chicago, Raymond Burns, son of w. J. Burns, and Me- Laren.
 McLaren gave the dates, hours and places of his shadowing of McManigal for a long period When he confronted McManigal with the Knowledge he had thus gained, the dynamiter decided to break from his companion and tell all he knew.
 j. About the seventh or eighth of April last" McLaren said, T picked up McManigal in his home in Chicago. He had just arrived from Springfield, Mass. where he later said he had blown tou Ia hpd str In Indianapolis, and, he said later ob- < tained $40O from J. J. McNamara for the Springfield job and one at Mill waukee.
 We shadowed him the next day as he went down town with his wife to the Hiberian bank. McManigal then Aent to the headquarters of the Iron Workers union and finally home. W McManigal Trailed b"We trailed McManigal and his wife tine next day again as they walked with Gheir children. looking into shop win flows I saw McManigal buy pair of tshoes which he is now wearing, and I sremember he was amazed after l ar rkested him when I told him the size of the shoes he had on, how much he tpaid for them and who was with him when he bought them
 R "McManigal left home carrying a suit tase and I took train with him to IN loledo. When we arrived in Toledo, ' ames B. McNamara was waiting for N NMcNanigal at the station, and they sat down in the station and talked. Mc- Mangal pulled ort a map which l saw | was of Detroit as l passed them. They Awent to the Meyerhoff hotel. J. B. regis Atered as r. Caldwell and McManigal as U. Foster.
 T had received instructions to arr rest J. B. as soon as l had located him, but as the police in Toledo were not In sympathy with us, we were afraid | 10 risk an arrest there and determined K to follow them to the next place. "The next morning McMangal left the hotel with J. B. McNamara. Mc- Manigal had suit case and at the sta- ton J. B. got a small grip from the icheck stand They bought tickets for |i Detroit. McManigal and McNamara sat | Tive seats ahead of us in the same day coach.
 We reached Detroit at noon and made the arrests there. We took them 1, t-r- x