The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-28
ONLY one MAN
IS HIS FRIEND
ortle MoManlgaI's Father i still
Faithful to tho Man Who
Confessed to Dyna-
hitting.
OTHERS TURN AGAINST
Iron Workers ali Treat Him as
Though He Was Snake for
Getting Thorn In
Trouble.

tOHltcQs FTeS6 Leased wire SerV1Ce.l
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2S.-Sitting
far back in one corner OF the court
room, at the dynamite conspiracy trial
today, in the last seat set apart for
spectators was little old man, his
thinning hair snow white, the lines of
whose aging face showed deep grisf,
intermingled with dismay and appre-
hension. Every day silent and watch
full, the little old man has been at
the trial and only occasionally has his
sombre face frightened. That has
been when Ortie E. McManigal, con
fessed dynamiter and informer, has
been brought into the court room ,or
Identification purposes The little old
man is the "squealer's" only friend,
his father.
Fellow iron workers, friends, evan
his young wife and children have
shrunk from Ortie McManigal, as from
a thing accursed since he made the
amazing confession that sent the Nc
Namaras to San Quentin and put some
fifty odd of his fellow unionists in the
shadow of the federal pen. Mrs Nc
Manigal who now lives in Chicago, has
not been near her husband nor has
she communicated with him since last
he was incarcerated In one Of the
marshal's rooms, afraid to SO to the
Marion county jail When McManigs.l
comes to the court room with his
/ guards, the eyes Of his father are The
only ones I'll the room who 10 nor eyt
/ MIN either with venom or contempt,A
GUS scorn. Mrs. McManigal win be Q
| witness, but she will not help Nc
Manigal The aged father of the ID
former came from his home in TifIln
Ohio, at the beginning Of the trial and
has been daily spectator.
/ Today he heard Martin Hyland
superintendent of police Of Indianap
oils, resume his story OF the arrest OF
j. J. Mcnamara and the raids on the
dynamite stores which the police head
/ began Saturday afternoon. Hylands
story was lacking in interest. because
the facts of the finding of the dyan
mite and nitroglycerin, the breaking
i of the vaults and safes, were the same
as those related last week by Walter
Drew. The policeman's examination
was expected to consume most of the
day, after which the defense planned
to cross-examine Miss Marie Myer
iron workers stenographer. whose di
rect testimony was given Saturday.
4 The government scored point to
4 day in the trial of the iron workers
when it was shown that President
Frank M. Ryan, at headquarters, hello
q conference with Ortie e. McManigal
the confessed dynamiter, during the
time of the alleged dynamite conspir
acy.
4 B. J. Cook, formerly stenographel
employed by j. J. Mcnamara, testified
that McManigal called at headquarters
August 25, 1910. and asked for Nc
Namara. Told that the secretary
treasurer was away, McManigal was
received by Ryan, the witness said
and spent an hour in Ryan's private
4 Office, the door being closed through
out the interview.
4 Cook identified much correspond
fence, the carrying case in which the
government alleged J.. B. McNamarf
carried dynamite. nitroglycerin ant
the alarm clocks and other exhibits.