The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06
CONSIDERED PLOT ID CAUSE EXPLOSION ON TIE ATLANTIC COAST Miller Says McManigal
 Was Selected to Do
 the Job
 HOCKIN INFORMS ON FELLOW DEFENDANTS Miller Says Labor Man Has Been Sup plying Government With Eyi-
 dence-Statement Causes a
 Sensation in Court Room

Sensation in Court Room
 Indianapolis, October 5.--F'iye days after the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building, when 21 persons were killed, plot was considered by the McNamaras to cause a similar explosion on the Atlantic coast.
 United States District Attorney Miller. conducting the prosecution of the accused dynamite plotters," so asserted in de- 1ivering the governments outline of the case before the jury today. MT. Miller said Ortie E. McManigal had been select ed to do the job and was sent to Massa- chusetts.
 Miller Gives Details
 MT. Miller's narrative of this particular charge was as follows:
 "NIcManigal had been down to High Bridge, Ky, to see aboht blowing up a structure there. He arrived back fn h. dlanapolis on the morning of October 2 That was the day after the Los Angeles Times was blown up. McManigai first read about it in an Indianapolis newspa- per- He immediately called up the head quarters of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers and talked to John J, McNamara on the telephone McNamara said. Come right on over here McMangal went over and said: Did you know who did 1t, or was it some of those fellows on the Paciftc coast?' asked McManigai. I don't know yet Then McManigal asked McNamara whether he had heard from Jim, meaning James B. McNamara. John J. reached over to his desk and got post card pie ture of the Times building. or of sign near the Times building. which said. The Times for the News. James B. had writ ten beneath, Tt will soon read, lhe News for the Times"
 'I received that post card several days, but haven't heard anything further added John j. On October Q, McManigal again asked John J. whether he had heard anything from James B. John J. answered Yes. Hes all right. He was 200 miles away when that Times explosion occurred. Now. what l want is an echo of the Times explosion in the east, so as to make 'em sit up, but l want you to change that alias of J. w. Me Graw. It's been hanging around you too long. That's the trouble with J. B. He had been hanging on to J. B. Bryce too long and now they are looking for J. B. Bryce on the Pacific coast It then was arranged for McManigal to go east and cause the echo of the Times disaster.
 Travelled With Explosive
 Mir. Miller said McManigal travelled about the east with explosives in suit case. finally blowing up railroad bridge at Worcester Mass, on October 10.
 As showing, as he said. that the offi- cials and executive board members of the iron workers union were aware or the explosions and were appropriaung money for the expense of carrying them on. MT. Miller quoted from books which he said were taken from tho union head quarters. These records, ne oeciareo' showed
 That s11, ,OO0 was appropriated at meet ing of the executive board held in In dianapolis December s. 1909, and was paid out at the rate of $10o0 monthly to John J. McNamara, with the specific under standing that McNamara was to use 1t to defray the expenses of dynamiting, and
 That McNamara drew on the fund reg ularly up to and after the Times dis aster, his checks being indorsed by Frank M. Ryan, president of the union; John Y. Butler. Buffalo, first vice president; Her bert S. uocl<in acting secretary treasurer; Frank c. Webb, New York, and Phillip
 
 A Cooley New Orleans, member Of the executive board, all of whom are on trial.
 Newspaper clippings giving accounts of explosions MT. Miller said. were accept ed as proof that the work had been done, and upon which regular fee for each fob of $200 was paid to McManisal in one instance, in the blowing up of con tractors work in Indianapolis, MT. MIil- Ter said, it would be shown that Ernest c. w. Basey, local business agent, also a defendant, told people the night before watch the newspapers in the morning. Something is going to happen
 Hockin in Double Header
 Herbert s. Hockin. now acting secretary of the union, was referred to by MT, Mil- Ter as double crosser and double dealer" in giving information to the gov ernment about the dynamiting plots.
 Hockin has supplied the government with evidence against his fellow de- fendants in the dynamiting cases sac- cording to Mir Miller According to Ortie MoManigal. Tockin was as bold as were the MeNamaras in causing ex- plosions against employers of non- union labor and was an inventor of the alarm clock machine by which the Los Angeles Times building was blown up after the fuse had been lighted and J. B. McNamara had escaped.
 Sensation in Court
 MT. Miller's statement caused a sen- sation. All the defendants looked at Hockin, who sat in their midst bury ing his head in a newspaper. Next to Frank Ryan, president of the Iron Workers union, Hockin had been com sidered the most prominent of the de- fendants. Long before the Los Angeles Times was blown up, MT. Miller de- clared, quarrel among McManigal, Hockin and James McNamara over the fixed price which was to be paid for dynamiting jobs occurred and McMan- igal threatened to expose the others.
 ''McAIanigal said have notion to quit this business. and give it up,' declared District Attorney Miller "Ii YOU do, your life won't be worth much, replied Hockin. Hockin had been keep ing back part of McManigals money They patched over a truce. James Me Namara went to California and did his destructive work there. As soon as the governments investigation began, how ever, Hockin began to double cross the union by personally bringing evil dence directly to the federal building.
 Hockin formerly lived in Detroit McManigal was working on a building there in 1907, when, according to his confession, he was first Induced by Hockin to go into the dynamiting con spiracies.
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