The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-25
LAWYERS FALL
OVER THEMSELVES
Defense Attorneys In Dynamite Con
splracy Trial All Eager to
Denounce the magazine
Story.
BOOSTING THE BOND
Government Motion to Increase the
Ball Of Executive Board Members
Of Iron Workers BY
$4,000 Each.

Of Iron Workers BY
$4,000 Each.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov 25.-
Mrs. Herbert s. Hcckin, bride of
less than two years, came to the fed
erai court house here today from her
Maple Road boulevard bungalow, one
Of the most attractive homes in the
city, to cheer up Ter husband the in
dicted secretary-treasurer OF the iron
workers union, one of the defendants
! in the dynamite conspiracy trial He
had spent the last two nights in Mar
! ion county Jail. Her pleadings with
relatives and frierds had SO far failed
i to get the $4,000 additional security
demanded by Judge Albert Anderson
! to give Hockin his liberty. Her tear
full but vehement defense OF her hus~
band against the governments allega-
| tions of "double-crossing," Saturday
was one Of the strongest scenes of
the trial. The happiest man today of
all the forces prosecuting the iron
workers for the alleged dynamite con.
spiracy, over the Imprisonment of
4 Hockin, was Critic q. McManigal, the
informer. According to Ortie, Hockin
led him into his career of crime and
1 I'm 10 r{0 Nc ~
revenge himself on the secretary
4 treasurer.
A government motion requiring ad-
ditional bond OF $4,000 each of the
! executive board members of the iron
workers union was to be decided by
4 Judge Anderson when the dynamite
4 conspiracy trial opened today. The
executive board men concerned, now
at liberty in bonds Of 100000, are
John T. Butler, M. ]. Young and Phil
4 lip A. Colley.
4 Defense attorneys who were abb
sent from court on Saturday when the
Mary Fieid article in the union 8
4 magazine was read, declared by Judge
Anderson to be slagrant case of
contempt, literally fell over them
selves shortly after court opened to-
day, in their eagerness to denounce
the article and to plead innocence of
any connection with it, They follow.
ed the example Of the other defense
/ counselors, who cleared themselves of
a contempt charge on Saturday.
NIL ntn last
i Angeles and explosions on Eon-union
4 contracts at the Panama canal were
protected by ]. ]. Mcnamara, accord
ing to Ortie McMaEigal, tn inform
er, who was Unexpectedly recalled to
the witness stand today in the dyna-
mite conspiracy trial.
Burn the city, off the map. Make
lit landmark like San Francisco fol.
lowing the earthquake" j. J. tod
him, said McManigal. ]. T., told him
of a scheme to send three or four
good men," to Los Angeles to set
fire to the city at different points
and to dynamite the water system at
the same time.
\ McManigal told of ]. j., planning to
destroy the work on the Panama
canal done by the McClintock-M Mar
shall Construction Co. McNamara's
scheme was for Ortio to go to Pan
anna, declared the witness, locate a
magazine, steal the necessary dyna-
4 mite and blow up the canal and to en-
list as soldier If necessary to carry
4 out the work.
That Mcnamara told him of plan
to sweep down on the motor speed.
way here the day of a big race, with
a gang of estrongarms," steal the
gate receipts and use the money In
future dynamiting schemes, was ad
ditional testimony given by McMani
gal
The informer detailed his trip with
j. B. Mcnamara from Toledo to De
troit, to do four jobs in the latter
place.
The pair arrived in Detroit, April
. IL, 1911, registered under aliases al
the Oxford hotel. AS they We're leav
| ing the hotel that day they were seiz
ed by several men claiming to be fed
i erai officers and charging the prison
ers with cracking safe in Chicago.
J. B. sent up howl to the crowd
, at the Detroit railroad station tha
, they were being kidnapped An officer
came up and took the party to the
police station.
/ McManigal recounted the story o
his being taken with Mcnamara from
, Detroit to Chicago and later to Lo.