Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1911-07-27
LOS ANGELES
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The Savages Continue Torture
Child Injured By The
Detectives

was taking the woman TO herhomc.
On sunday night a Burns automobile
which had been following the McMan-
lgal party ran down little Evelyn Nc
Manigal and seriously injured her.
The detectives machine was running
without lights and it was a wonder
the child was not killed.
George Behme, uncle Of ortie Nc
Manigal is in Los Angeles and he has
paid two visits to his nephew. Behme
is a locomotive engineer from Portage
Wis. He says the story tod by ortie
is fantastic and that he can dIsprove
part of It; that ortie was with him
at the time some of the dynamiting
was alleged to have been done by him.
Behme declares ortie acts strangely
as IL his mind were affected or that
he is strangely influenced in some
manner. He is convinced the detec-
tives are welding a mysterious power
over the young man and that he Is
weak enough to yeild to the Burns
men.
Mrs. McManigal says she will visit
her husband no more as IL seems to be
a futile task to try to persuade him to
tell the truth abou the whole affair
She had hoped hat he would abandon
the Burns outfit and tel the whole
truth about the influence the "oper.
atives' are exerting over her husband.
She believes he could shed a great
light on the methods OF the Burns
outfit
Ortie McManigal has lost IS pounds
in weight since his confinement in
Los Angeles county Jail He is thin
gaunt and has a hunted look. No
one but the Burns man McLarin
spends a couple of hours daily with
the self-alleged dynamiter. 1t is the
common expression among newspaper
men and officials at the jail that ortie
is getting his daily lesson" when Nc
Larin calls. Operative Mills, head of
he was working for the Pinkertons
during the Meyer Haywood -Pettibone
case. He knew Harry Orchard well.
In comparing the two ''confessers"
he says ortie McManigal is a much
better subject than the notorious and
discredited Boise stool-pigeon. Mills
says ortie will stand pat and stick to
the story agreed on and that there is
little danger of their man weakening.
Mills has spent much Of his time
following Mrs. McManigal and. ac-
cording to the attorneys for the de-
fense. devising new ways Of torment
ing the women and her little children
One feature Of the case, devised
with devilish ingenuity. developed
when ortie Mechanical was put in q
cell on the side OF the jail overlooking
the Tempe street entrance to the
court house. II was hoped he could
shout at his wife as she passed on
her way TO answer TO a charge OF
contempt of court. She went into the
building by another entrance and the
prisoner clung to the bars peering in
vain onto the paved street below.
After her ordeal in the courtroom
the woman was assisted to the door.
Emo slng from the Temple street en-
trance the woman tainted and fell on
the steps. ortie saw her fall and he
shrieked like a madman. The pris-
oner rushed to his cell door and shook
it fiercely shouting for the jailor to
see what was the matter with his wife
The woman was picked up and car
ried inside the court house and out
the other entrance and taken away
in a physicians automobile. IL took
hours to convince McManigal that the
woman had not died under the tor
ment of the detective and the prose.
cutors.
McManigals health is breaking
badly and IL is known the detectives
are afraid he will give way mentally
before the trial opens.
Burns operatives here are almost at
a point OF rebellion. They say their
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