The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1911-04-26
CONFESSION A FAKE,
Officer Burns Denies That AIIeg'
ed Dynamiter Preached"

Opens It Up and Finds Some Brown
Wrapping Paper and Two Balls Of
Coarse Twine Similar, the Detective
Claims, to Paper and Twine Found
on Other Dynamite-AlIeges That
Dynamiters Intended to Blow Up
Five Places In Detroit and One In
Toledo.
Toledo, O., April %. = Detective
William !. Burns, the San Francisco
sleuth on the trail of men who are
supposed 10 have wrecked the Los An
eles Times and committed numerous
other bomb outrages; has followed the
trail of the dynamiters to Toledo. Yes
terday Burns slipped into this city
from Tiffin and was driven to police
headquarters, where he was In con-
sultation for some time with Chief Of
Police Knapp.
Then he returned to the Union de-
pot and secured a grip which is sup
posed to have been left there on April
10 by Ortie McManigel and ]. B. Nc
Namara, the two men who were ar
rested later in Detroit.
At that time the pair had four grips
checked at the depot. it is said, and
when they left hurriedly for Detroit,
they took three of them away. Burns
says he knew of the existence of this
fourth grip in Toledo and his visit to
this city was to find il in an effort to
weave his chain Of evidence.
Grip Contained Paper and Twine.
AS soon as Burns secured the grip
he opened it. The grip was found to
contain brown wrapping paper and
two balls of coarse twine, similar, De-
tective Burns says, to the paper and
twine found upon other dynamite.
Burns says he is satisfied that from
the information in his possession the
alleged dynnmiters intended to blow
up five places in Detroit and one in
Toledo.
The Detroit concerns are factories
and the place marked for destruction
in Toledo is owned bv big concern.
The detective thinks the alleged dy-
namiters were on their way from De-
troit to T'iffin to secure a supply of
dynamite, but changed their plans and
burr,iad hack IN netroit
Denied McManigeI Confessed.
On his way from the Union station
to Chief Knapp's office, Burns denied
the published statement alleged to-
have been made to Burns and Captain
Stephen B. Wood, of the detective de-
partment Of the Chicago police, to the
effect that Ortie McManigel, the al
legged dynamite gang leader, had
made a foil confession.
w. J. Burns made the following
statement here today:
EN- route to Chicago Mcnamara
said to the detectives: You have
nothing or me in the safe blowing job.
You don't want me for anything of
that kind at all. I'll bet you got me
mixed up with the Los Angeles job
Men Answered Descriptions.
Previous to the arrest Of McNa-
mara and McManlgel, our operatives
learned that two men answering their
description had visited Tiffin previous
tc the theft Of The dynamite had hired
a rig at Truax's livery in that city and
had driven to Bloomville. Leaving
there we drove back TO Tiffln, where
we located the shed at the rear OF
niehl's wagon works. In this shed
we found in blind room a crude box
which had heavy lock on it. After
removing this more than 400 sticks of
dynamite were disclosed to view"
Burns went OH 81 instructed our
boys when they left Chicago to make
the arrests and to tell Mcnamara and
McManigei not to commit themselves
to anything that might incriminate
them or which might be used against
them as evidence"