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band had figured. When he finished
he lifted his right hand and swore he
had told the truth.
This document was in "a wallet car
rled on the person Of Assistant Dis
/ trict Attorney Ford Of Los Angeles
when Captain OF Detectives stephen
Wood turned over Manigal and Nc
Namara to the California officers at
$3.50 o'clock Saturday afternoon,
While labor leaders throughout the
| country today We're voicing their in
dignatlon at the framed up charges
and the deliberate kidnapping Of the
accused men, the two McNamaras ana
Mechanical were being rushed to Los
| Angeles where twenty-three indict-
monts charging murder and the Ike
crimes are hanging over their heads
| Jim Mcnamara and McManigal were
| officially turned over 20 the Los An
geles officers at $3.50 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. The two men We're bun
/ dlcd into big touring car at the
Reed home in South Chicago and uu-
der a guard of Chicago and Los An
E'li0 NtltillNth llltg NlNN gNhNiN a. 70
towards the city limits.
1t was their purpose to board the
flyer on the Santa Fe railroad at Jo-
liet at o'clock Saturday night but
today 1t W as admitted their scheme
had been tipped off," and fearing
trouble from the labor sympathzors
they abandoned the scheme, Reports
tonight We're that he party were hid
den I'm a little town near Joliet and
expected to begin the tripearly to-
morrow morning Detective Reed of
the Chicago department was mem
ber Of the party,
After the arrests were made, II was
decided that McManigal was the log
ioal man to sweat" The detectives
told him they were government de-
tectives and that he was wanted for
robbing a safe in n sub-postal station
at Thirty-flrst Street and Cottage
Grove.
McManlgal was taken into room
and quizzed At first he denied any
knowledge OF the crimes. For IL
hours he was piled with question with
but little rest. Shortly after midnight
he began to break down. At first his
story was incoherent, but as he pro-
ceeded he told with vividness of the
crimes IN which he Acknowledged
he had been implicated. lie said that
Jun McNanara. NJ. A. Schmidt and
Dave Kaplan had been implicated In
the crimes He started out by telling
Of the first Outrages committed by
the band. leading to what he called
the first big job." the destructlono
railroad bridge and iron works at
Peoria, ILL.,. on September 4, 1910.
| Preciousto that time, he said, he
had figured in half dozen small
jobs" before the big Peoria explosion.
In all Of them, save one, a number of
men lost their lives.
McManigal said that he had been
| selectedason e of the men to do the
Times building Job" but they had
given him other work in the Central
West and re couldn't get there in
time. He Haid Jim Mcnamara, NJ
A. Schmidt and Dave Kapuam did
the job"
McManlgal went into details re-
garding all of the "jobs." He told
how activ ties had been shifted to
! TEXAS and then to South Carolina and
later to Milwaukee. In El Paso 90
men were killed In the explosion. Ask
ed to fix the number of men killed
IN all the murderous expeditions, Nc
Manigal said, 81 guess there were n
| hundred or So"
He told cf visits to indianapolis
where he claims he saw John McNa-
mara, secretary Of the International
Association Of Bridge and Structural
| Iron Workers. He says that McNu-
mara furnished them with funds and
with the explosive which they used.
| He said that they received their or
dors from him in carrying out their
murderous work.
Ho said that all places they dyna-
mitted either used structural iron OBJ
tanned from plants having the open
shop or places belonging to the Cred
tiers Association, which was oppos-
Ing the Structural Workers Union.
The confession gives in detail the
beginning OF the attacks against the
Erectors' Association, comprising the
greater number of the structural iron
operators in this country and espe-
cially on places where material sup
piled by the American Bridge Compa-
ny vas being used.
II cannot tell what the confession
said" Captain Wood stated tonight
"Mr. Burns has that in charge, and
as I understand there may be some
further arrests the disclosure of the
contents of the confession would
make these more difficult.
while here neither Mcnamara nor
McManigal saw each other l was let
in on the secret three months ago,
and It was so corefully guarded that