The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-04-28
ANOTHER
N MANIGAL.
CONFESSION
Under Sheriff Declares pIIs-
Oner Talked Freely OF
Dynamite OutrageS

ltNN 40 W OAht 4hN MdNlSAl GeNies
sion Of the dynamiting of the Liewe
llyn iron works OF this city was a
Eleast partially solved today whei
Robert Brain, undersheriif OF thi
Iconnty who had charge OF McMani
lga, IN the transcontnental trip JUS
Tended, said that the prisoner ha,
ivoluntarily confessed TO him Will,
lon the train
/ AccordiIg to Brain, McManlga
Itrought uh the subject last Monda,
lnornng, tue second day ont frou
IChicago, by asking what punishment
Lwould be given him II he we're tc
ltTn states evidence.
Il am not in position to tell
lgou, was Brains reply Are you 20
ing to do it?T
Yes" answered McManigal. "lm
going to tell"
What are you going to tell?" ask
el Brain
"All about Il, said McManigal
You know what you are charged
with?' continued Brain.
Yes am charged with dyna.
hitting the plant OF The Llewellyn
iron works
Did you do i;?'
Sure. | did it,"
What did you get for it?"
Got $500 For 1t
Two hundred dollars responded
McManigal. THAT is the price for
an such Jobs
Do you know Bryce was Brains
next question
Yes, | know him
How long have you known him.?
About year and half"
Then McManigal said he would
stop talking
"All right, Mac" said Brain q am
not trying to coerce you DO as you
like about it, Thats your right.
When get out there, III tell all
about it, concluded McManigal
The subject was dropped and not
taken UP again,
Mrs. Ingersoll Sees Mcnamara
Mrs. d. Fl Ingersoll OF San Fran
cisco in whose lodging house the man
she knew as J, b. Bryce, who is
charged with the actual dynamiting
Of the Times building here, was TAX
en- into the Jail to see If she could
identify James j. Mcnamara as
Bryce
Mrs. lngersol and John b. Fred
ericks, district attorney went TO tbel
Office OF the Jail and waited there
while UnderSheHn Brain brought
from his cell
TO give Mrs, Ingersoll full Oppor-
tunity 10 decide upon McNamara's
identity Fredericks contriyed a seem
ingly official conversation with theI
prisoner lasting several minutes Hel
Informed Mcnamara OF the latter's
legal rights, going into details upon
the formalities
While Mcnamara was talking with
l1rederiCks Mrs. Ingersoll stood at
one time in the room, apparently I'M
observed by Mcnamara, and gazed
steadlastly at the accused man
Brain said that NOT semblaace OIL
recognition passed between them, and
It is declared that Mcnamara did notl
know Why he was taken before the
district attorney
Mrs, lngersoll left the jail With
l'redercks No one was permitted
by the district attorney to see Mrs
lngersoll, but he said that Mrs. In
gefsoll had positively identified
james Mcnamara MS y g. Bryce
in the county jail office
8 ays Gas Caused Explosion
Job Hartman Of Los Angeles aud
o N Hilton Of Denver. the attorneys
engaged to defend the accused men.
we're admitted to the Jail, Harri-I
man leaving the jail to reach a tele
phone, made a short statement 20 thel
press to the effect chat Il was gas.
and gas only that caused the eXplo-
SION In the Times building, and that
Ike and his assistants were prepared
10 prove IT, regardless Of public opiu
ion.
Arthur Ncitch, deputy district at
tornoy, announced definitely Ia orderl
Ia spt aside conflicting reports, thatl
the charge against McManigal is that
nf dynamitiug and that the accusation
against Mcnamara brothers Is MUIR
der. Even IL j. ! Mcnamara was not
III California at the time the Times
plant was blown up, the charge will
le pressed against him aud accord
ing to the penal code, II It is found
as alleged, that he directed the crime
newill be punished as D principal