The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-02
M'MANIGAL WHO EARLY CONFESSED
Sketch of Man Who Implicated McNa-
maras in His Confession.

Los Angeles Cal, Dee 2.-Ortie f,
AcManigal, who, in confession. de.
clared that he was the confederate .oi
John and james Mcnamara in con
spiracy which involved murder and de.
struction all over the country, lived an
uneventful life, as he himself described
it, up 20 the time he was arrested in
Detroit with James b. Mcnamara last
April, and brought to this city to be the
principal witness against the brothers.
He was born at Bloomyille, Ohio. April
!, 1874 His mother died when he was
four years old, and her parents, who
lived at the same place, took him and his
sister and cared for them until he was
six or seven years of age Then his ia
Their remarked and took the children
back to his home, where they remained
until Ortie was about II years old. y
separation then occurred between father
and stepmother and the children were
sent to live with the fathers parents in
Hutchinson, Kan, where they lived for
a year or two.
When McManigal was about Is years
old his father yentured for third time
into matrimony, and took his children
with him to a farm near Forest, Ohio.
Shortly afterward they removed TO Tiff
fin, Ohio, where McManigal, senior, is
still living.
But Mrs. McManigal, the third, OBJ
iected to her husbands children, 0rtie
said and so once again he and his sis
ter were sent to the home of their moth
er's parents in Bloomville. There Nc
Manigal stayed until he was 10, when
he returned to Tiilin to work with his
father in the ice business and in stone
quarrics.
When war was declared against Spain
in 1898, MeManigal enlisted. but did
not get out OF the training camps. He
was made orderly to an officer, posi-
tion he said he liked very much. Upon
being mustered out of the military serv-
ice he went to Milwaukee. where his UNI
Gle, George Benin, who figured recently
in contempt proceedings here for refus
ing to answer questions propounded him
in the grand jury room, wanted him TO
become a railroad worker.
He started to enter railroad employ.
ment, but later went into quarry in
Milwaukee and afterward worked at a
foundry there. Then he removed TO
Melrose Park, a suburb of Chicago, and
worked for a copper concern.
MeManigal fell in love with his wife
while she was visiting his relatives in
Milwaukee, and married her May 8,
1901. After his marriage he became an
iron worker, and joined local union No.
S, in Milwaukee, in 1908,
He worked at his trade in Louisville,
Milwaukee, Chicago and other cities,
then left the ranks of the iron workers
to join his father and half.brother in
the saloon business in Tiflin. But he
had trouble there with his half-brother
and sold out his liquor interest.
That was in 1906, and he remained in
Tiflin, working in the iron trade, until
his self-alleged connection with the Nc
Namaras.
OF reckless nature. McManigai earned
The sobriqnet dare devil" by feats Of
agility on the towering skeletons of sky
scrapers. In Chicago, while working on
the taIlest buildings, he would leap of
the top story to catch a beam being
swung bv the derrick.
When he was a small boy, McManigal
fell off wagon. and, wheel passing
over him, severely injured his head, he
said.