Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-06-28
N 'MAN|GAL PLEADS
WITH WIFE To AID
PROSECUTION
DRAMATIC SCENES IN
DYNAMITE CONSPIRACY
Fight RACES Round Woman,
Whose Testimony Is Sought
For and Against Alleged Muf-
der ConSpiratorS.
lBy Morning Journal Special Leased wireI

Angeles Times dynamiting case ach-
leVed a dramatic touch unexpected
even by themselves today. when after
they had confronted Mrs. Ortie e. Nc
Manlgal vita her husband. one of the
accused conspirators. in an ante-room
OF the grand jury chamber her over
wrought nerves gave way before his
pleading and she Swooned. She was
revived by physician.
hcManigal, ii was said had been
taken from Jail to plead with his wife
F, to be witness for the prosecution in
stead of for the defense after she had
persisted in refusing TO answer ques-
ticns put to her before the grand
jury, even when she had been told Of
the power of the law to punish such
refusal
When she emerged. hysterical from
The second ordeal. Attorney Joseph
Scott an associate of Clarence s.
Darrcw in the defense of the Me-
Namaia brothers. rushed among the
detectives surrounding her and brand
ishing clenched fists. swept them
aside with threats of violence if they
did not cease "houndlng this woman.
For perhaps hall an hour, Mrs. Nc
Manigal remained with the attorneys,
lresting. Then in their company she
started for an elevator to descend to
the ground to take an automobile.
The corridor outside the grand cham
bers was thronged with detectives
fer both sides nearly score alto
gether. Several detectives in the EN-
plCy of w. j. Burns followed Mrs Nc
Manigal and her attorneys to the
elevator Scott recognized one OF
thew and ordered him to leave.
"You have bounded this woman
lone enough Scott roarod angiily.
Now you don't go down in that ele-
vator with her She's under a doctors
care and she shall not be annoyed
any more. why don't you take a
man2"
Il am going dcwn in this elevator, /"
answered the detective quietly.
You try it," returned scott. rolling
up his sleeves and shaking his fists.
AT that the detective turned and
edged his way through the crowd,
which hastily gathered and ran down
four flights of stairs. reaching the
street befofa Scott Mrs. McManigal
and the others of the party
After the detectives retreat. Scott
and the others entered the elevator,
accompanied by two other detectives
for the prosecution, whose faces We're
unknown to them.
When they reached the street and
left in an automobile. another ma
chine occupied by the defeated
Burns man and two of his compan-
ions Followed
The Burns men readily admit
that they are making every attempt
to win Mrs. Mechanical TO the side Of
the prosecution and have taken an
apartment next door to those she oc-
cupies so as to make note Of her
every movement
Attorney Scott tonight declared that
in the interview with her hush md.
they did not ''get n word out of her,
despite the two hours ordeal in which
Detective Malcolm McLaren also had
taken a hand.
Detective McLaren, on the other
hand. announced that the prosecution
did not consider Mrs. McManigal at
|all hopeless" as vet.
Detectives in, the employ of Burns
say that McManigal told his wife she
would be well taken care of If she
became witness for the prosecution
1t was asserted today by the prose-
cutiOn that she was not wanted 20 tes-
tify against her husband. who is al
legged to have admitted the dynamit-
ing If the Llewellyn Iron Works here
last winter. but to tell the grand jury
arvthino she might know of the
truth of the charges against the Nc
Namara brothers as to the deaths of
twenty-one employees of the Los
Angeles Times when the plant of that
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When Mrs. McManigal was taken
before the grand jury today every eff
fort was made to induce her to test-
nv against the accused brothers.
Law was quoted to her and she was
warned of her liability to be imprlson-
ed for contempt and indicted and
tried as an accomulice.
Mrs. McManigals attorneys, Car
ence S. Darrow, Joseph Scott. Le-
compte Davis and Job Hartman, to-
night issued a statement in which
they declared lit is difficult to char
acterize in temperate language their
opinion of the cruel treatment ac-
corded Mrs. McManigal this after
noon"
They declared that the district at
torneys office under the subteriuse
that contempt proceedings against her
were to be instituted because of her
failing to testify" for an hour and a
half tortured her to such an extent
of mental and bodily extremity that
she finally tainted, and required
physician to restore her.
1--WE want to serve notice in this
public way upon the district attorney
and his horde of private detectives.
continued the statement, which bSfe
the names of the four attorneys for
the defense, that Mrs. McManigal viii
not set foot again in the grand jury
room to be subjected to any further
indignity and torture except by direct
order OF the court. II will be our busi-
ness at the first available opportunity
to lnterrogate the grand jury as to
whether they were aware of this out
rageous proceeding of the district at
tornev and If so, to challenge the
qualifications of such grand jury as
being untitled to sit dispassionately
and calmly without prejudice upon
charges affecting the defendants in
these cases.
II is said by her attorneys that the
prosecution offered to send Mrs. Me-
Manisal 10 a hospital If she desired
to go, but that she steadfastly asked
TO be permitted to return TO her at
torneys.
Arthur Veitch deputy district nt-