The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-22
M'MANlGAL RELATES TO JURY THE REASON WHY SOME Ex-
 BLOSSOMS FAILED.
BUILDINGS TOO WELL LIGHTED
Took Twelve Quarts of NitroaIycerine Across the Continent to Make Xmas Gift" Explosion for
 Coast Labor Leaders.

Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 21.-Equip-
 ped with twelve quarts of nitrogly
 cerine, Ortie McManigal in December
 1910, went to Los Angeles, Cal, com
 missioned to destroy the Times aux 1 Hilary plant and by adding few
 more to the list of dead" to take sus-
 picion off James B. McNamara, who
 had killed 21 persons in the wreck
 of dhe Times building two months before.
 | McManigal so testified today at the dynamite conspiracy" trial. He
 named men other than the McNam- aras, as having inspired the second
 Los Angeles dynamite plot. He said
 he was prevented from carrying it out by the, discovery on reaching
 Los Angeles, that the auxiliary plant ! was too we'll guarded and illuminat- l ed at night. Instead, he set bomb
 in an iron workers plant to explode
 on Christmas day.
 | That was the Christmas present, he said. Olaf A. Tveitmoe, a labor union official in San Francisco. had asked for.
 McManigal and James B., had been hidang in the Wisconsin woods Me-
 Manigal said, like pair of pirates, each with red handkerchief about his head, in conformity with the game laws, and a rifle over his shoulders when number of detectives ap- peared at their lodging house. Elud- ing the detectives, they came to In- dianapolis.
 So elated was John ]. McNamara over the escape of his brother, that he proposed that McManigal start at once for Los Angeies to do some dynamiting.
 James B. said he would like to go out and do it. but ]. J. objected" said McManigal, 'J. J." saying they were looking for man of his des. cription on the coast and it would be good idea for stranger to do the job
 Then McManigal quoted directions. he said J. J. McNamara gave him. q left Indianapolis with 12 quarts of nitroglycerine. Dec. 9. Four days later 1 arrived in Los Angeles and had buried the explosive in a gravel pit near the river. I looked over the three places I was to blow up and saw that all but the Llewellyn Iron works were too heavily guarded. On Christmas eve going into the Llewel- lyn grounds, dynamite cap explod- ed and injured my hand That put me out of humor. So l placed the 12 quarts all in one shot and set it for 2 o'clock the next morning.
 "Then l went to San Francisco and called at labor temple.
 When 1 reached Indianapolis in
 January. John y. his brother and 1 met in q closed room at the Iron workers headquarters. John J., was all Tuffled up because l had not done more damage He said I had spent too much money to do so little dam. age. Then he asked me how condi- tions were on the Pacific coast and whether they had forgotten about the Times explosion. I told him they certainly had not. for everybody WIS looking for that big reward. James
 B.. thought if he could keep under cover for five years, the Times ex- posion would be forgtten.
 The dynamiting jobs were 10 90 right on, only hereafter dynamite was to be used instead of nitrogly- cerine. as it was more effective John J., then told me of a proposal to send bombs by express 10 non-union con. tractors. I told him that would not be right for you never could tell who would open the packages and they might explode on the train. He re- piled he did not care about that.
 T went to Tiffin, Ohios and began to steal dynamite from stone quarry at Bloomville. Ohio.-~ and store it in shed at the rear of my fathers
 house at Tiffin I stole three or four hundred pounds and on taking some of it to Indianapolis, it was arranged for J. B.. to help me carry 1t all here
 The idea was that to steal the ex- plosive was better than to buy it,
 for then no records were kept" McManigal told of conversation with Herbert & Hockin in which it
 was proposed to "get rid of" Miss
 Mary c. Dye. McNamaras steno-
 grapher at the Union headquarters | because she knew too much"