The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-04-27
DYNAMITE PLOTTERS
SECRETS LAID BARE
ONE OF PAIR NABBED IN DE
TROiT TELLS OF WRECkiNG
PROPERTY IN LABOR
WARS.
DETECTIVES TRAILED THE PLOT
TIERS ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY.
Prisoners Tells How Agents of Struc'
tural Workers Caused Deaths of
112 Persons and Property
Loss of $3,5oo,ooo.


The existence of remarkable
document setting forth in its ninety
closely typewriter pages the story
Of how 112 men were killed, property
worth more than S3,500,000 destroyed
and how arch-plotters, Outrivaling the
Borgias in their thirst for blood, sat
in secret council and condemned to
death innocent workingmen, became
public in the story told by Ortie Nc
Manigal, the structural iron worker
arrested with John j. Mcnamara, OF
of indianapolis, secretary of the In
ternational Association Of Bridge,
Structural and Iron Workers, and his
brother, James w. Mcnamara. The
story was told by McManigal as he
sat in bedroom in the home of
City Detective William II. Reed, 1904
Commercial avenue, South Chicago,
on the night of April -. He started
talking at midnight and it was break
fast time when he finished.
Seated in the bedroom were Viii
liam j. Burns, head of the detective
agency, responsible for the dyna-
miters' capture; Detective Reed sew
eral operatives from the Burns agency
and an official stenographer OF the po-
lice department. In an adjoining
room Jim" Mcnamara was sleeping,
but not knowing that his acknow
lodged confederate in crime was tell
ing of their fiendish deeds The little
group in the bedroom was awe
stricken, held spellbound b. the
hnr 81 InA t1ie 10
He spoke carelessly of their crimes,
telling of how the explosive was
planted how he had visited union
officials, and was paid for his work,
and of the explosions in which the
three other members of the wreck
ing band" had figured.
When he finished he lifted his right
hand and swore he had told the
truth.
While labor leaders throughout the
country were vocing their indigna-
ton at the framed up" charges and
the deliberate Kidnapping" of the ac-
cused, the three men-the two Nc
Namaras and McManigal, were being
rushed to Los Angeles, where % in
dictments charging murder and like
crimes are hanging over them Jim"
Mcnamara and McManigal were Of
ficially turned over to the Los An
geleS officers. The two men were
bundled into big touring car at
the Reed home in South Chicago and
under a guard of Chicago and Los
Angeles detectives, they sped south
ward toward the city limits.
Gives Details of Shocking Crimes.
l1n re 10
was decided that McManigal was the
logical man to sweat" His can
tors told him they were government
detectives and that he was wanted
for rObbing safe in a sub-postal sta
ton at Thirty-first street and Cottage
Grove avenue.
He was taken into a room and
quizZed. At first he denied any
knowledge of the crimes. For hours
he was piled with questions with but
little rest. But shortly after mid
night he began to break down. It
first the story was incoherent but
as he proceeded he told with vivid
ness of the crimes in which he &C
knowledged being implicated He
said that Jim" Mcnamara, II. A.
Schmidt and Dave Kaplan had been
implicated in the crimes.
He started out by telling of the
first outrage committed by the band,
leading up to what he called the
first big job, the destruction OF a
railroad bridge and iron works at
Peoria, ILL.,, on September A. 1910.
Previous to that time, he said, he
had figured in a half dozen small
jobs" In all of them except one
men lost their lives.
McManigal said that he had been
selected as one of the men TO do
the Times building Job" but they
had given him other work" in the
central west, and he could not get
there in time. He said Jim" Nc
Namara, II. A. Schmidt and Dave
kaplaD did the job"
McManigal went into details regard
ing all of the Jobs" He told how
| activities had been shifted to Texas
and then to South Chicago and later
to Milwaukee. In FL Paso 20 men
were killed in an explosion.
When asked to fix the number Of
| men killed in all the murderous ex-
| petitions, McManigal SAIL:
II guess there were a hundred or
| So