East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-02
History of Crime Given
by McManigaI

Los Angeles, Dec. 2-Ortie Nc
Manigal who confessed to series of
dynamite explosions, which involved
the McNamaras. gave a history of the
case
He said he first began dynamiting
June 25, 1908, in Detroit, Mich,
where the Russell Wheel Foundry
company's building, then in course of
construction, was destroyed.
He skipped from that time until
a year ago when he was in the Con-
over woods, in Wisconsin with James
h. Mcnamara, and the latter, he said,
told him then of having just previous
ly dynamited the Times building.
I'VE left the Conover woods about
a year ago" said McManigal "and 1
went back to my home in Chicago
and lay around there for a few days.
1t was December last year, that l
received telegram from Indianapo.-
Is signed Frank and asking me to
go to that city. Frank meant
James B. Mcnamara, as he at that
time used the name of Frank Sulli-
van. ] went to indianapolis, and in
John j McNamara's office / was
given Instructions by John j. himself
regarding tine Llewellyn job. He said
it had been promised that a Christ
mas present was to be sent to Los An
geles and that / was to bring it.
James B. and I went to John J's
vaults on the fifth floor of the Amer
lean Central building in Indianapolis,
where his offices were and took out
a case specially made to carry nitro
glycerine. The district attorney has
that case in his possession here now
well, that was December 8. We
hired rig and drove out to Beach
Grove, an Indianapolis suburb, where
we had the explosives cached. There
were II quarts there and we took it
all, ea.ng two empty cases.
1--WE went back to j. Us office and
l got instructions from ]. ]. himself
to come to Los Angeles. He told me
to put shots under the Llewellyn Iron
Works and the Baker Iron Works and
to be sure to put one under the Times
auxiliary plant, to add a few more to
the list
Il left Chicago on December IL for
Los Angeles. l had 10 quarts of the
dope in the special carrying case and
two quarts in my suit case. 1 gave
the case with the 10 quarts in it to
the porter to take care of. / gave
him a dollar for his trouble. Just
before arriving at the depot on De-
cember Is. in Los Angeles, the train
ran along by the Los Angeles river
and l took special notice of it, as
good place to each The dope. When
| got here I went to the Hotel Ross
lyn. and got a room under the name
of T. F. Mckee. Then l went back
to the river, hid the stuff and marked
the spot SO I couldn't possibly fail to
find it when l wanted it.
Il had been told by ]. b. how to
get to the Llewellyn Iron Works He
said to go to the part of the city
where the streets bore names instead
of just numbers, so l located it all
right. 1t took me a few days, thouglwl
to find the Baker Iron Works.
Then I looked about for the Times
auxiliary plant. ]. b. had told me
to buy a copy of the Times and look
on the editorial page and find the
address l did so, but l found only
the business and editorial offices on
Spring where the paper had moved
after its building at First and Broad
way had been blown up.
81 finally found the auxiliary plant. !
They were setting up new press
there at the time. l had a long talk
With the watchman. looked the
place over and decided it was too well
guarded to do anything there. About
1880 the night of December "a. II
placed the whole IL quarts of dope
at the Llewe,lyn Iron Works, timing
it to explode at o'clock
About o'clock that night I took
the southern Pacific train north to |
San Francisco. where 1 rema ned a |
few days and arrived back in Chicago |
New Years d ""
The confessed dynamiter was ask !
ed about his confession in which he !
told of having been instructed to see
the big chief" and a man named |
Clany in San Francisco before coming
to Los Angeles on the "Llewellyn lob -
but the detectives instructed him to !
mention no person by name. That
statement. however was made n part
of the court proceedings when his
wife. Mrs. Emma McManigal. was a
witness before The grand jury here
last summer