The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24

the explosion and attended the confer enee with Mayor Alexander. the chief of police and the Merchants and Manufac- turers' association. For while he worked under the supervision of the Los Angeles authorities, and then, following a mis- understanding, took up the work on his own responsibility. He examined evil dence previously gained of an attempt to dynamite a bridge in Peoria, Ill, in Sep- tember, 1910. where an internal machine planted near the bridge, had failed to ex- piode. The conditions at Peoria coincided so closely with the evidence following the Times explosion that the detective be- lieyed both had been the work of the same men. The detective suspected the Peoria work had been done by Ortie E. McManigal of Chicago. and when he re- turned to Peoria he surrounded McMani- gals home here with watchers
 Shadowed By Watchers
 McManigal, in the meantime, not know ing he was being watched, returned to Los Angeles with a plan, the detective claims, of destroying the auxiliary plant in which the Times was being issued It is said he made several inspections of the plant, but apparently changed his plans. Just to show his good faith Burns declares. McManigal placed an in-
 
 Llellwyn Iron Works in Los Angeles.
 Detectives watching this were unable to make use of their knowledge to pre- vent an explosion being fearful of warn- ing the dynamiters Of their presence and by putting them on their guard and pre- vent and arrest.
 The detectives, closing in on the Chi cago man, followed him to his first meet ing with James McNamara. whom at that time they knew only as J. B. Bryce Of Bryson, under which name the explosive, said to have been used in blowing up the Times plant, was purchased
 McManigal and Nc. .amara then came east, the same train bearing the watch CTS. The pair went to Kansas City. to Peoria, again to South Chicago to Mill waukee and a dozen other cities always carrying a mysterious suitcase, which 1t was later learnAd, Burns says, contained the clock worlE basis from which the in fernal machiIes were formed. Finally the pair went to Indianapolis, where ln- terviews were held with Secretary John McNamara, the first time he is alleged to have appeared to have any connection with the dyramiting.
 First the two visited Secretary Me- Namaras officc at night and held a long consultation. The next day Secretary Mc- Namara kept an appointment with the two in a street near his office and the three went into another consultation in a saloon.
 Plans Frustrated
 Then McManigal and James McNam- ara went again to Kansas City, and fol- lowing them, Burns asserts, watchers found plant" arranged under a new bridge and by throwing a quantity of nitro glycerine found there into the t~I plosion. Burns says from this time fre- quent visits were made by the two men to the office of Secretary McNamara in Indianapolis, where the detectives gained new evidence and prepared for a round up."
 They followed McManigal to Toledo, where he was joined by James McNam- ara. The two men left for Detroit, both carrying heavy suitcases. Watch CTS in Detroit had informed Burns, the detective asserted, that an attempt would be made to wreck the new S2,000,000 terminal in Detroit and 1t was de- termined to prevent this loss, Chicago detectives were asked to aid in the ar rests and Detectives Biddinger and Reed were sent from here.
 McNamara and McManigal were arr rested by the Chicago men and told they were wanted here for safe blowing. Confident they could prove an alibi on this charge the men made little resist = ance. Fear that premature disclosure of the facts behind the arrests would complicate proceedings in the arrest of Secretary McNamara, who already had neen indicted secretly by a Los Angeles grand jury, prevented the authorities making the prisoners acquainted with the real nature of the charges against them.
 On their way here the men, however, | T. .tatx Namara startled the police with the question. Say. is it for the Los Angeles job you fellows want us?"
 The detectives, however. resisted all attempts to force confession from them.
 Offer Big Bribe
 Raymond Burns, son of William J. Burns, declared, 1t is said that Me Namara had offered him $?0,000, and later s30,0O0 for the liberation of him. nelf and McManigal. The story of the alleged bribe was heard by the Chi cago officers and they investigated.
 Mrs McManigal tonight declared her belief in her husbands innocence. With her two children, girl of and a boy of years, she was found at the home of a friend tonight.
 Wife Defends Him
 "Ortie isn't the bad man they picture him." she said. And I don't believe he did It. He has had a hard life, but don't believe he would commit such crimes"
 She had left her own flat because sh e had been aware that it was being watched constantly
 "Ortie was out of the city great part of the time during the last two years" she added, but it was because he was sent out by his employers"
 While she was refusing to tell wheth- CT McManigal was in Los Angeles wh en the explosion took place, Walter, the D. year old son, cried:
 Papa was out of town because he could make more money" The mother siIenced the boy and ordered both chil- dren from the room.
 Neighbors of the McManigals say the head of the family has been at home but infrequently during the last two years, although Mrs. McManigal was said always to have been well supplied vas arrested last January on a charge of stealing several wagon loads of brass After spending several days in jail he was released.
 After we arrested the men in De- troit," said Raymond J. Burns, i've went through their suitcases and found 12 clock work internal machines, simi- lar to the one found in Peoria and those placed at the Otis residence in Los An geles the night of the Times explosion.
 We also found an automatic pis- tol, a heavy revolver and rifle equipped with silencer intended to deaden the report of the shot," he said.