Arizona republican., 1911-06-27
MRS. M'MAM|GAL ARRIVES
She Takes the Side of the Defense and Almost Per suades Her Husband to Sever His Relations With the State.

Los Angeles. June 26.-A struggle. quiet but keen and determined was , waged all day today between the
 prosecution and the defense over Mrs. Ortie F.. McManigal. who. next to
 her husband, and his accused fellow
 piotters. win probably be tine most Interesting figure in the McNamara dynamite conspiracy case The de- fense. directed by Clarence S. DJr- row. chief counsel for John J. Me Namard, the indicted iron workers. union official and his brother James
 scored first when detectives em- pioyed by the prosecution seized Mrs.
 McManigals trunk and failed to find discriminating letters and papers which they said they Were seeking.
 But still on the trail of the alleged evidence officials of the district attorneys office caused grand furv subpoenas to be issued and served first upon Mrs McAIanigaI and her companion. Mrs. Sadie Mcclure of Chicago. and then upon the three little children of the woman. The children were Patricia Mcclure Eth eIyn McManigdl and Walter McManf- gal
 The two girls have just passad their seventh birthdays and the boy IS child in kilts. They were taken into the grand jury room late today. after Mrs. Mcclure had been sum- moned and Mrs McNIanigaI had de clined to answer the questions of the inqulsitors- Mrs. McManigal stood on her rights as the wife of an accused man and refused to testify by the advice Of Darrow and Attor- neNs Joseph Scott Le Compte. Davis and Job Hartman. associate counsei Tor the McNamaras. who accompa- nied her and the children to the corridor of the grand jury chambers.
 Mrs McGuire wife of Thomas Me Guire. an official of the iron work CTS union in Chicago. said before she took the stand that she knew nothing of the case against McMani- gal and The McNamaras
 The developments which culminated in the summoning of the children and their mothers before the grand iury today began yesterday when Mrs McManiSal and Mrs Mcclure arrived on the same train that brought Clar- ence Ddrrow to the city Prior to that time it had been expected that McManigal and Mrs. Mcclure would be on the side of the prosecution. But the woman by her actions ap- parently repudiated the declaration of the district attorney that she would be a star witness for the state
 First Mrs McAangaI went to apartments prepared for her in a hotel where Job Hartman and his family are living. then in company with DdrroW and the other attOrnevs for the McNamaras she went to tine county jail. and there. according to information obtained from the pros ecution today, endeavorcd to have her husband serve notice upon the dis trict attorney that he wanted to see the attorneys for the defense. and desired to testify on behalf of the brothers. McManigal ac- tually signed such a notice but Nal colm McLaren. representative of Detective Burns. said today he had persuaded the prisoner not to send it to the district attorney.
 The appearance of Mrs. McManigal in Los Angeles was a surprise tO the prosecution and it's detectives. Me Laren learned that she was coming in time to meet her at san Bernar- dino. ana upon her arrival here the attorneys for the defense and the were in keen competition for her favor Both sides pressed invitations upon her to get into their but recognizing Attorney Hartman by some prearranged | means. she appealed to him to rescue her from the importuning detectives and take her away All last night her apartments were closely watched ] by detectives and today when Gray Hartman. son of the attorney. went to an express office to procure her trunk. he was ordered off the trans l fer wagon and operatives of detec- | tive agency under r.. Mills took ! her luggage to the county garage.