El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-08
who was with him when he bought
Swallowed to Toledo.

them.
Swallowed to Toledo.
/ MECHANICAL left home carrying
suitcase and took q Lake Shore
! train with him TO Toledo. keeping
well away from his sight all the time
When we arrived in Toledo James B.
/ McNamara was waiting for McMani-
gal at the station exit. They shook
hands and sat down in the station for
a taxi McManigal pulled out a map
Wnlch saw was Of Detroit and I
passed by them. They traced over it
with lead pencil, but finally vent 10
the MeyerhOff hotel. ! B. registered
as f. Caldwell and Mechanical as @
Foster.
We stopped at a hotel on the oppo-
site side of the street but as the no
lice in Toledo were not in sympathy
with us, we were afraid to risk an
arrest and determined to follow them
10 the next place.
The next morning at 1880 o'clock
1ncAanlgal left the hotel with J. 3
mcnamara, who had a suitcase. and a Z
the station while he bought the tick
cts, j. B. got a small grip from the
cneck stand They bought tickets for
Detroit. The police officers there were
our friends and we felt happy as we
boarded train at Il o'clock that
morning for Detroit. Mechanical and
Mcnamara sat five seats ahead of us
In the same day coach
we reached Detroit at noon and
they went to the Oxford hotel. We
decided to make the arrests there We
ala so at that hotel and took them 10
the depot, buying tickets for Chicago |
Raised Kidnapped Cry.
j. B. Kept hOuering about being /
kidnapped and finally attracted the at I
tenJlon OF some police officers so we {
all had TO go back to the police sta
uon- The rest Of the afternoon we
worked hard trying to get them awav. I
ana IlnaIly McManigal who had his I
money IN Chicago, persuaded McNa- /
mara they would be better off in his
nome town, and J. 3. signed a waiver Z
TO proceedings in Detroit.
We left on the night of April y in
drawing room Ban Johnson, I
Charlie Comiskey and other baseball
magnates were on the same train !
coming from the opening Of the Amer
lcah league season at Detroit OF
course they knew the detective ser
geants and wanted to know who we
mad We said they were q couple Of
yeggs' we had gotten for safe crack
Ing.
Later on James B. resented that
which he overheard and said
to US in the drawing room that he had
never blown up safe or robbed one
n ms me and that every dollar hadj
oeen paid to him by the man upstairs I
He got bit talkative then and
said I'm another Vincent Altman /
am It took $4,000 to clear him. and I
We got hundreds Of thousands Of dol
airs and the American Federation Of
labor back Of me. Clarence Darrow
viii be my attorney. They did not Il
convict Altman and they never can
convict me. You fellows don't want
ne for no safe blowing. You want me {
or that job in Los Angeles
Stopped by 8IcNanigaI.
Here it was that AIcManigaI reached
tut from the top berth and grabbed y
Mcnamara by the hair, saying: Say :
elbow, do you know what you are
talking abOutP I know what I'm
alking about, you pinhead,' answered /
+. b, and McManigaI dropped back in
o his berth with the remark: All
light, if you do go ahead
"McManigal had nothing more TO
ay. Along towards morning J. B.
Ook a different tack. All you fell
oWs,' he said, have your price now (
What is itT Biddinger told J. B. it Y
would take a great deal, as there were c
lot Of US.
Offers $4,000 for Release.
j. B. finally offered $4,000. if we C
-ould let him off before reaching Chi
ago and giving him SO hours to reach
he man upstairs of whom he had \
pOken. Remember, I've got a lot of
acking,' he added and if YOU fellows
ont come across, Wen get yOu-and fl
Ou-and you He pointed TO each of s
s threateningly. +
After we reached Chicago Burns c
alked to McManigal and J. B. sepa- t
ately. I tipped my chief that Nc S
ianigal was the more likely Of the T
Wo to give up, as he had a family n
-hereas J. 3. didn't. Burns talked to F
all afternoon, giving him
etails of what we had on him, how 2
re had trailed his movements and -
new everything he had done for
ONE time. Then Burns told AIcMani- .
al to send for him when he got ready /
o give his answer, and left .
q had a long talk with Mechanical y
90. and told him that 7 had seen him y
ay goodbye to his wife and children. n
described how he had kissed them. =
nd informed him that there was a
God chance that he never would see
lem again as a free man and that IT ,
as his duty to save them =
That night at o'clock Mechanical -
ent for Mr.. Burns and in the presence =
f a secretary gave my chief a long n
-atement until 4 a. m. That was how r.
he confession was made and of course / a
he real details of it never have been +,
lade public. We had prepared to have ID