Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-12-12
family. His real name proved to be
McManigal-Ortie McManigal.

family. His real name proved to be
McManigal-Ortie McManigal.
"One day he took train to place
called Kenosha, in Wisconsin, and
our men followed him and saw him
meet a man who answered the de-
scription of j. B. Bryce Of the Los
Angeles trail. Bryce turned out to
be Jim Mcnamara, a brother of the
secretary-treasurer.
"McManigal disappeared from Chi
cago for ten or twelve days at one
time, and we find that he went to
Los Angeles to blow up the auxiliary
plant of the Times-not satisfied with
/ the original outrage! But this auxili-
ary plant was too we'll guarded, so ne
dynamited the Llewellyn iron works
as an evidence of good faith, and
came back home again. He carried
the dynamite and Illuminating caps
from Chicago, on the train, in hand
satchel. Imagine what would have
happened to the passengers on that
train if a little accident had exploded
the satchel!
1--WE determined to arrest the dy-
namiters the next time they went on
Job and we planned to take NC
Manigal and the two McNamaras to-
gether, or simultaneously, so that no
one would be able to warn the others,
or remain free to destroy the evidence
that we thought we'd find If we could
get to it first.
ION April II our operatives, follow
ing McManigal and Jim Mcnamara
from Chicago and Cincinnati, met In
Toledo and wired us: Number one
met number two That was our Sig
nal to begin. Our party registered
at a hotel opposite the one In which
Mcnamara and McManigal were stop
ping and watched them all day. 1t
became apparent that they were not
going to do any dynamiting in To-
ledo. Next morning they went to the
railroad station and bought tickets for
Detroit.
"They sat in a day coach full of
women and children and they had suit
cases that presumably contained dy-
namite-besides being fully armed, OF
course-and our detectives decided
not to tackle them where blunder
might cause a great loss of life.
when the train stopped, they got on
and scrutinized everyone who came out
of the cars, and then they wandered
around the streets rather aimlessly un-
til they came to the Oxford hotel. Our
men watched them register and argue
with the clerk-who wasn't able to
give them a room right away-and
then they checked their suit cases
That was the cue for the arrest. The
lobby was crowded with a theatrical
troupe. and Mcnamara elbowed his
way through towards the door, with
lMcManigal following. McManigal was
in handouts before Mcnamara missed
him. We grabbed Mcnamara at the
door. AS 1t happened, they had left
their revolvers in the satchels-along
with a rifle that was fitted with a
Maxim 'silencer' for picking off night
watchmen, six clock-batteries OF the
Los Angeles and Peoria pattern slight
ly improved, caps, wires, tools, and
even a battery tester. We'll, what the
helrs the matter?' Mcnamara kept
demanding, What's this for" 'McNa-
mara said You don't want me for a
Chicago Job. You want me for a Los
Angeles job Our men didn't enlight-
en- him, but he guessed it. He tried TO
buy them off. After some talk to the
effect that they were not fools and
knew good money when they saw 1t, he
offered them $4,000 to let him get
away. My son Raymond objected that
this was not enough-that 1t would
have to go too many ways Then he
offered $4,000. Raymond asked where
he would get so much money. He an
swered: From the higher-ups.' When
he found that he was merely being
played, he gave up that attempt
"McManigal, when I saw him, was
rolling cigarettes and smoking nerv-
ously. 1 warned him as to his rights,
as l had warned Mcnamara; and then
I went over the case with him, telling
him where he had been and what he
had been doing for months past, and
proving to him that we had a perfect
and complete case against him, and
left him, saying that if he concluded
he wanted to see me he could send for
me. A few hours later he sent for me,
and gave me the truth about the whole
conspiracy. There was no third de-
gree used. 1 have never used it in my
life"