The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-05-04
McManigal Confesses,
Laying Bare 50 Diff
ferent Plots.
CLOCK BOMB USED
Mcnamara was four Hours
Away When Explosion
Killed FL People.

Los Angeles, Oalif.-District AT.
torney Fredeficks today gave out, in
an Official statement, q brief sum.
mary Of the confession made by Or.
Il McManigal, setting at rest all dis.
putes as to whether he had or had
not admitted his completely In the
dynamiting outrages charged to him
and the two AfcNamaras.
In brief, McManigal admits that he
carried out s%ixty-nine dynamiting
Jobs, involving the destruction OF
property worth $4,000, 900, since the
year 1909.
McManigal denied that he had any
part in the destruction of the Los
Angeles Times building. That job,
he asserts. was pulled off by j. j. Nc
Namara alone, who used Schmidt
and Captain as aids in securing the
dynamite.
McManigal declares further that
Mcnamara was -four hours from Los
Angeles on a train, when the explos-
ion took place that destroyed the
Times building and wiped out the
lives Of twenty-one employees of the
Times.
This was accomplished by Nc
Namara by mean Of a clock attach
ment to the bomb, which caused it
to explode at the time for which the
clock was set.
Mcnamara declares that John j.
Mcnamara was always the paymas-
ter for those who executed the dy-
namiting plots in various parts of
the country. 1t was McNamara's
custom always to give 5000 before
the job was done, and that he paid
an additional sum, running up to as
much as $1,000, after the work was
carried out. The amount of the sec
ond payment depended upon the i'm
portance of the property destroyed
and the success with which the work
was done.
District Attorney Fredericks as
serts that McManigal went ahead
placing dynamite bombs for McNama-
ra after he had agreed to supply De-
tective Burns with all the details of
the plats he vas carrying out.
Burns Denies Statement.
Chicago. - Detective William ].
Burns, in an interview here today
says that the statement by Freder-
icks that he paid McManigal for in
formation and allowed him to go
ahead placing dynamite bombs, was
untrue. Burns says he never saw
McManigal till three days before. the
arrest, and never spoke to him until
he was arrested.
barrow Says It's Kidnapping.
indianapolis, Ind.-Stattng that
the law has been clearly violated and
that the Mcnamara case here was
an exact parallel of the famous Moy-
er-Pettibone case with which he was
connected, Clarence S. barrow, the
noted Chicago attorney has prepored
the following statement for the
United Press:
BY Clarence s. barrow.
The law is we'll settled every
where that a fugitive from justice
means one who is present in the
state at the time and place Of the
commission of the crime, and then
fled to another state. If John j. Nc
Namara was not in California at the
time of the commission of the crime
of which he is charged then there
was no legal way of getting him to
California except by his consent.
1t is not claimed that McNamara
was in California at the time of the
commission Of this crime or for
long time previous. The governor Of
California made a recquisition or
the governor Of Indiana for McNam'
ara. Without knowing the facts, OF
considering that there was anything
unusual in the case, the governor
of Indiana issued this requisition
Under the statute it was then the
duty of the officer having charge o
Mcnamara to take him before of cir
cult, superior of criminal court or {
Judge thereof to inquire into twt
things:
First: Whether he was the maj
mentioned in the requisition and sec
ond whether he was in California ant
not in Indiana at the time of tn
commission Of the crime. McNam
ara was taken before a police judg'
who had no authority to hear tn
case. He asked for counsel and wa
refused. The Judge asked I'm sim
ply whether he was Mcnamara
Without any opportunity for defens'
he was taken to an automobile an,
rushed out Of the state. He neve
had a chance to invoke the aid o
tie law or consult counsel. He wa