New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-23
SAYS BOMB FOR BURNS
WAS M'NAMARA'S PLAN
MCManigal TeStifieS flames B.
Proposed Blowing Up De-
teCtiVe in His Office.
RELATES MANY EXPLOSIONS
Confessed Dynamiter Gives
More Details of Destruc-
ton of Non Union Jobs
in Conspiracy Trial,

Indianapolis, Nov. 22-ExpIosions at
uon-union iron works in Milwaukee,
Omaha, and Springfield, Mass, were eX-
planned by Ortie Il. McManigal at the dy-
Mantle conspiracy trial to-day as having
been caused by him not long before he
and James b. Mcnamara, arriving in De-
troit TO clean up" that city, were arrest
ed with su,tcases filed with dynamite.
For weeks before his arrest, McManisal
testified. he had observed he was being
followed, and. had seen strange heads
lodging around the corners OF elevator
shafts in the iron workers headquarters
in Indianapolis.
II told James 3. before we started for
Detroit. said the witness, that William
j. Burns mad detectives after us; that
detectives were even coming 10 near the
vault where we stored the dynamite, and
that one Of them followed me on the
street when i was going with suitcase
OF dynamite to blow up the South Chi
cago job
Mcnamara said If we saw any more CT
them we would go to Chicago and rent
room next 10 Burns office, put an cleo
trio wire through the wall, and arrange
10 set off from our room bomb III
Burns's desk when he was sitting there
That would make an end of our troubles
with him, he said. told him dldn
think we would do anything of the kind'
or ever get near Burns.
That was about April 3, 1911, McManigal
! said. He and Mcnamara We're arrested
seven days later.
COMMUNICATED for His Work.
For blowing up an unloading hoist ana
damaging a steamer near the DOCKS at
Milwaukee on March &C. with loss Oh
$1,000 McManigal said, he received me
compliments of John J. Mcnamara lor
/ the best job he ever did.
When McManigal destroyed part Of the
Douglas County Court House at Omaha,
on March a. he said he was calIeu
l down" because he did not cause the eA-
plosion TO occur at exactly the same
/ hour James B. blew up job at CoiuIh-
1 Inns Ind a telegraph signal having been
arranged to send word when ne was
ready to John J. at Indianapolis.
! At John J. s instructions, McManigai salu'
he went 10 Springfield, Mass, and there
4 met Michael j. Young, the union oinclai
a, Boston. who pointed out tower In the
group of municipal buildings he "ahteu
blown up. The witness said: ....
Young told me to lay the tower nat , on
+be ground He said he hau hdu SUN
trouble. with the foreman DuI So SalS Srt
had not come TO clean up any person. V 10
to biow M a Job. lie also told me soS
he had sent me in care of Frank ~ MeDV
in New York was a present ana ne, fiero onf
1 s. Hockin, who TOOK that T e.
of my pay had no right TO ~. ,.a,+
I nut two bombs in the tower HoSou'
. o'clock and took a train FOR Uucd,
Ny. At Utica I examined a vest-p POI
gun. James 3. had told me mat ~, .,s ~,
Scbmidt who helped him on the PaciIc
Coast, used TO carry small gun III NE
teeth so he could shoot QUICKLY wI'I I.
reaching 10 his pockets When, ne o Nc
doing a lob Then ] went TO kochesteL
md bonghta dozen alarm clocks TO De
used in making bombs
Planning Detroit Explosions.
After 7 returned to indianapolis We
,,annnd ont the four jobs to be blown
no IN Detroit j. J. said we were TO re-
ceiye 5000 for each Job. l went TO De
! troit to look over the ground, puLchtssT
1 ing a map of the city there, on WhlIn
/ rnSrEed, the location of the American
i bridge Company, the Detroit BRUCE aii9
4 Iron Works and two other IRON W 'oL,
I that were TO be blown up the same llishI
i then went 10 Chicago 10 VISIT my
/ homo There ] met r. IL. Houlhan,
anoa,,'ucial eecretary of the local union. l
1 asked him whether he had heard the
1 rev,s bout the Columbus (lnd.) nlm go
| INC 10 unionize their jobs thereafter ana
1yere going TO use only union men IN
/ concrete work at Oklahoma CITY; lie re,
plied: more power to the rough gang,
On April II / left for Toledo 10 meet
\ raynos Il ~ the station there The next
/ Gav we went 10 Detroit and were ar
rested.
MECHANICAL testified he and James B.
| had been promised $500 for causing an eX-
ploslon in South Chicago on February a.
and that they were unable TO place the
i bombs near enough TO the plant because
Of the glare Of nearby furnaces. he
added:
We complained 20 ]. ]. about not get
ting our money. He answered he was
waiting TO receive the payment from chi
cago local No 1, but he thought they
wouldn't pay 5000 for putting a bomb near
q fence.
McManigal also told to-day the story
Of finding his little girl in the kitchen
4 OF his home in Chicago playing with
eight one-pound sticks Of dynamite
which he had left on a radiator to thaw.
lie testified he and James B. Mcnamara
had gone to Chicago to blow up non-union
work in South Chicago in February, 1871.
When they reached Chicago from Indian
npolis they found the dynamite frozen.
At James BIS suggestion, MECHANICAL
said, he put the dynamite on radiator
and went to look over the proposed Job.
When he returned his little daughter was
on the floor with the dynamite and
James B. was testing a battery on the
door bell. The witness continued:
J. 3. laughed when he saw my little
girl toying with the explosive lie said:
TELL papa what that Is" My little girl