The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-01
D|CTAPHO|VE USED
TO GET TESTIMONY
Device Placed in Los Angeles
County Jail by Prosecution
in Mcnamara Case.
SURPRISE OF DEFENSE
Uncle and Wife of Ortle Nc
Manigal Said 10 Have
Been Trapped.

.,os ANGELES. Nov. 3o.-A bit OF

Los ANGELES, Nov. J0.-A bit OF
twisted wire dangling slantwise from
an upper window today led TO sD lu-
vsstigatop BY counsel defending James
r. McNamura which convinced them
that the walls of the Los Angeles coun'
tv iail have ears, OF auy way one ear,
which has heard many conhdcntlal
speeches.
The wire runs from q window IN an
rnoccuped cell room on the third floor
of the iail down to another unoccupled
room on The second floor. visitors Gu
tcrtained by Ortie F.. McManigal, who
is perhaps the state s mainstay IN the
attempt to show that Nc Namara caused
The death of Charles j. Haggertv by
blowing up the Los Angeles Times
building. saw him in the upper room.
4 detective and perhaps Stcnographcr
was In the lower one, but, for all prac-
ical purposes the wire transported them
into the very presence OF persons VINO
talked 10 McMnnigal while the grand
iur, was in session, This is the dec
laraiion Of the defense, which, TO be
sure has cot much documentary evI-
dencc except picture of tho dangling
wire. but II also is tually conceded
nv the state.
Il shoudp t wonder u bit if YOU re
right. said District Attorney John B.
1'redericks when asked If dictaphone
had been used IN this manner.
Gathered Much Evidence.
''There q be nothing unusual about
that. Ever see ope2 There s just "a
round disc attached to the window shade
or against The pane or snywhere-Do
one would notice it-and the wire
leading to some other place, It's In
teresting.'
What this device has meant to the
state became manifest upon inspection
OF the list of names of those who Wis
tied McManigal. 1t includes Mrs, Nc
Mauigal, who. according 10 her hus-
band coerccd him by threats of sep
nration INTO signing q note asking Clar-
ence :. Darrow. chief OF counsel for
the defense, 80 come TO see him. 1T is
the theory Of the defense that this iu-
tervlcw WAS transcribed on the floor
below almost before Mrs. cManIgal
was out Of the Jail McManigal short
time later rcpudated the request.
1t was when McManigal 5 uncle, a
railroad engineer. visited him. however.
that the defense had its first inklIug of
what WAS arranged by the state, The
uncle was taken before the grand Jury
and emerged the most astonlshed man
I in town.
Il lU'N ASK ne 2Houf lNln2S / Sdlu
TO OrtIc that never spoke III my life. -
ibo declared TO his friends. 81 said,
Fem in that room and nowhere else
4 How much more evidence the state
deaihercd IN this manner its counsel
NIL not say.
Halted by Holiday.
Il Progressing at the rate of one sworn
6uror for every seventy yeDiremen
sldrawn from the jury wheel. tho McNa-
hhnara trial was stopped for legal hoIj-
Hday today, with eight sworn Jurors and
Two talesnen passed for cause N tho
Jury box.
! The other two seats III the box were
officially vacant, the ouiJ" man remain
ing from the eleventh vcnirc having
kesruped bein" called into the box by
lthe considerate act of Judge Bordwcll
Ewho adjourned couTt twenty minutes
ERhead OF time with Instructions that
the ycnlreman should return Friday
lmornlng. He almost scampered from
thc room.
\ About fifty mcu comprised in the
lwelfth vcnire were notified today by
4 Idepnty sherItfs TO appear at tho same
{ rlme. and lad this prospect TO melitate