The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-28

every city. Dozens Of them were
brought from the Pacific coast To re.
nam on the stand only a few minutes.
a curiy.headed. dinple-cheekcd girl.
sa.uso IN a pink garb. was called from
North Randall. o.. to point out in the
court Dol Peter ]. smith and Georne
sNipper) Anderson of Cleveland. as
men she saw going up Il lonely road
Win a box shortly before an explosion
al North Randall. \ mechanic came
from Hawaii to tell OF o~verhearins
certain OF the defendants discuss pro.
posed explosions In Detroit. An en-
sineer came from Panama to recount
his experiences with Hockin. Men
who drove delivery wagons. check
ooSs In railway stations. who carei
Tor suit cases. filled with internal ma
chines: ho,ei clerks who ..booked'
me McNainaras and Mechanical for
rooms. detectives. stenographers. ON.
trastors who suffered from explosions,
ana telephone operators. all related
p.ecemeal their knowledge OF the de-
Iienaants conversations or movements
when the government undertook ia
weave into II completed story to SHOW
at once the individual guilt Of each.
u M collective guilt of all he de-
PENDANTS.
Tvcftmoc is Often Mentioned.
One by n the defendants heard
ehe eharses repeated against them.
lNelt!noe heard his lame mentioned
o:leh. he was accused as having fur.
nished Caplan II Schmidt to helm
blow up the Times building. He was
named as having Sent word to Nc
Namara the month after the explosion
that thing We're all right on the
coast. u as having requested the
~asnanll1ers again be sent to Los An
ss,ss. later acknowledging another
a Christmas present" McManigal said
ne called at Tvettmoe's office in San
rlahelSeo. but met only Eugene \.
Clancy there. Anton Johannsen was
mentioned by witnesses as having
helped Tveitmoe. William ]. Burns
1esti1ed he told Mayor Alexander OF
NOS nin angeles the day after the en-
sen were behind it," Testimony about
1ohannsen Was Permitted on the
ground that though not a defendant.
ne a been shown to be a con-
spirator. wa
y. r. Munsey. Salt Lake CITY, was
charged with harboring the Los An
s'ies dsnamlter for two weeks. A
clothes for the dynamiter, and other
Witnesses said they saw Munsey, also
known as Jack Bright" and Mona
mara together.
Clancy was again mentioned az be.
ing IN Boston when the Pacific coast
eNploslon occurred. and as hurrying
Vest alter teiegra phing clean house,
TO destroy evidence. II. W, Pohlman
or seattle. was mentioned as bringinr
and Clancy together in
that city. a.
iiockin Most Conspicuous.
VI an the defendants Herbert S.
i1ochin Was probably the most con-
splcuous in the testimony.
The story of Hockin, as told. was:
AS an organizer for the union he in
auced MECHANICAL to do dynamiting.
Then he began to hold out" on the
pay allowed McManigal for Jobs. This
resulted lii quarrels. and the McNa-
maras decided to have little to do with
nlln. KNOWING this. Hockin went to
a contractor in Pittshurg and BETRAYED
the dynarniters. That was before the
loss of life at Los Angeles. Later
hoekin worked for Burns. while still
remaining as an official of the union.
ana When the federal grand Jury be-
gan work in Indianapolis. Hockin TOOK
htormation to the government.
me testimony attthe trial resulted
so that he was conhSed to Jail. Hockin
asserted to those for whom he was
accused of acting as a spy, that he
look no part in dynamiting, but wit.
nesses from Muncie, Ind, and at Gin
clhnatl pointed him out as the man
10 "hom they actually sold explosives.
Had the Goods.
Hockin .again VAS the man. most
mentioned by McManigal. After he
Detroit in 1907" said Mechanical.
"Hockin told ME there was no use
or my attempting to quit now. as they
had the goods on me. / asked him
VITO was going to pay me for my
work. He said the executive board
mac set aside a limited fee Of $125
f!or each JOB and expenses. I told him
IL was too little for a thing like that.
he replied my family would be taken
care or n anything happened. So I
went to Bloomville, Ohio, and got an
order from Nat France to Bill Carey.
VINO was the keeper Of a magazine
Mhere dynamite was stored for use
IN a stone quarry, and they let me
nave some without knowing what I
was going TO do with 1t. I used 1t to
dow up a derrick at Clinton. Iowa
Feb. 16, 1908. ~
fiockln two weeks later. visited
me again In Chicago and said he did
not nave enough money t. pay ex.
penses for the Clinton job. but for
me to go to the hall Of the local
union. When went there the sec
retary. r. II. Houlihan. gave me an
envelope containing $1S5. Houlihan
said; There is money in that"
Wanted to Get to Canada.
In July of 1908. according to Nc.
Manigal. Hockin met him in Buffalo.
ana after pointing out a viaduct, said
n" n to get to Canada before
the explosion look place. About IL
O'Clock that night MECHANICAL set off
the dynamite with Il ~sixty-foot fuse.
He said Hockin met him later in Chi.
cago and paid him.
lhen Hockin asked Mechanical to
go to st. Louis. but he refused, and
went instead to Holyoke. Mass, where
an explosion failed because the dyna-
mite was buried in the ground too
long. Mechanical said.
up to March. 1909, Hockin wa
the only man who knew me as a
dynamiter." said McManigal. Just
before that date he arranged for me
TO go to Boston and see NJ. ]. Young
regarding the job on the Boston opera
house. which was blown up" Later.
on instruction from Hockin. McMani-
gal said he went to Hoboken to con.
fer with Frank G. Webb Of New York
about blowing up a viaduct. A dis.
pute arose and McManigal told Webb
that Hockin was paying for the work
and he purposed to follow instruc-
tons.
Had To Rent House.
"Hockin paid me $3.50 for the Bos.