The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-22
TAKE NJ 'MAN|GAL
IN HAND NOW
lnformer In Dynamite consplrac,
Gas. Must Soon Undergo Rigid
Cross Examine
tlon.
COURT ROOM CROWDED
TWO Defendants Whose Bonds Were
Forfeited Are Spending the
Nights In jail
Now.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. "a
United States Senator John w. Kern,
at the head of counsel for the forty
five defendants in the dynamite con-
spiracy trial, was expected to take
Ortie E. McManigal, the informer, in
hand late today or early tomorrow
for ross-examination. The attack on
McManigal would not consume more
than one day, it was said, and would
be directed only at the uncorroborated
portions of his confession. OF such
parts there were but few when Nc
Manigal resumed his story this morn
ing, District Attorney Miller having
placed his corroborative evidence like
high trumps in a card game.
Defendants Edward Smythe and
James Ray, both of Peoria, spent last
night in Jail instead of in the mar
shal's luxurious Office in the federal
| building.
Marshal Schmidt said he could not
accommodate them any longer than
the two nights they spent in his office
awaiting new bondsman. Smythe
and Ray were still seated apart from
the other defendants when court
opened today.
District Attorney Miller announced
a change in his plans before McMan-
Iigal resumed his testimony today.
1.-THE informsr would not be turned
I over to the defense Immediately his
direct examination was ended, said
the prosecutor, but about thirty other
4 witnesses would be called ahead OF
NIcManigal's cross-examination, ac
cording to the new schedule.
crowd that packed the corridor
4 fifteen deep just outside the court
4 room. came to hear the witnesses to.
day.
How he stole 1900 pounds OF dyna-
4 mite from the France quarry com
4 pany of Bioomville, O.. early in 1911
and transferred the explosive piece
! meal on interurban cars and trains
from Tiffn to Indianapolis, was the
q opening chapter of Ortie E. McMani
4 gals story at the dynamite conspir.
I acp trial today Men and women In
I the crowded courtroom involuntarily
shiyered as they recalled passing the
I big office building where the dyna
mite was kept here. prior to it's re
moval to the nearby Jones farm, whers
!. the police later found it.
j. j. Mcnamara objected to storing
the explosive promiscuously abou
!, the Jones farm, said McManigal. fol
II fear small boys would use the boxes
for targets and destroy themselves, J
~. cautioned the infcrmer to cut the
!, trade marks from the dynamite, de
clared the witness. saying it was
mistake to have LEFT the trademarE
on the nitroglycerine purchased il
San Francisco because it furnished {
clew to the Times destroyers.
That J. B., and McManigal were
II trailed by Burns detectives on a
least one of the trips from Tiffin t.
indianapolis was declared by Nc
Manigal on the witness stano. The
officers looked over the register a
. the hotel where the two dynamiter
were stopping in Tiffin.
McManigal said he once went from
Indianapolis to Toledo where he re
NAMED for three days in an effort tt
learn II any of the Ohio papers wer,
carrying accounts Of the dynamit
J stolen from Bloomville.
McManigal said j. J. McNamar
6 told him that the executive board G
J the Chicago local had called on Hei
bert 9. Hockin, to discuss the ope,
]. shop situation at the Iroquois Iro
!, Works, new million dollar pant an
q that the local was willing to pay
!, good fee to have something "pulle
J, off"
Hockin underbid some Chicago d!
& namiters led by a Ed Francis" d,
{, clared McManigal, and got the II,
, quois Job for $500
Il ~. B., and did the job the night c
" February a." said McManigal. ~. ]
IS wanted to blow up the watchman b,