The Detroit times., 1912-11-23
FOUR DETROIT
PLANTS MARKED
FOR DYNAMITE
All We're To Be Blown Up in
One Night, Says Nc
Manigal
CAME HERE TO DO JOB
WHEN ARRESTED
Informer Tells How Jas. b. Nc
Namara Planned to Place
Bomb in Burns Desk

lOdtlsldCIOn was eNluenL on the races
! of the 45 defendants In the dynamite
conspiracy trial, when they appearet
at the opening OF court today, over
the action of the American Federation
! of Labor convention, In Rochester
which adopted resolutions urging the
lcollecuon OF big defense fund and
demanding a fair trial"
Staggering under a burden esti
mated at 81, 500 a day to defend their
executive council. the iron workers
union was said 70 be desperately in
need OF funds. Already raffies, SO
Gals and dances are being given by
the various locals to raise defense
money.
District Attorney Miller's stage
managing art was seen today In his
announced intention OF calling score
OF other witnesses before he would
recall Ortie Z. McManigal, the In
former, to testify. McManigals recital
has gone up TO the day before his ar
rest in Detroit. on April IL. 1911. and
the suspended climax was Miller's
trick OF holding back something with
which to refresh the jurors when they
tire of routine confederation.
Explosions on non-union iron work
in Milwaukee, Wis, Omaha, Neb., and
Springfield, Mass. were explained by
Mechanical, yesterday afternoon, as
having been done by him shortly be-
fore he and James B. Mcnamara, ar
irving In Detroit to clean up" that
city, were arrested with suit cases
filled with dynamite.
For weeks before his arrest, he
testified, he had observed he was be-
ing followed. He had seen strange
heads lodging around the corners OF
elevator shafts In the iron workers
headquarters In Indianapolis.
Four iron works In Detroit we're to
be blown up the same night, McMani-
gal said. He and Mcnamara, he said,
were on the ground preparing for the
series of explosions when arrested.
II told James B., before We started
for Detroit, that William ]. Burns had
detectives after uB, that detectives
were even coming up near the vault
where we stored the dynamite and
that one of them followed me on the
street when | was going with a suit
case OF dynamite TO blow up the South
Chicago job" saird Mechanical
"McNamara said II we saw any
more OF them we would go to Chicago
and rent a room next to Burns office,
put an electric wire through the wall
and arrange to set of from our room
q bomb in Burns" desk when he was
sitting there. That would make an
end OF our troubles with him. he said
/ told him l didn't think we would do
anything of the kind or ever get near
Burns"
That was about April s, 1911, Nc
Manigal said. He and Mcnamara were
arrested seven days later.
For blowing up an unloading hoist
and damaging a steamer near the
docks at Milwaukee, on March 16, with
a loss OF $4,000, McManigal said. he
received the compliment OF John j..
Mcnamara for the best Job he ever
did"
: When he destroyed part Of the
Douglas county courthouse at Omaha.
March "a, he said he was called down
because he did not cause the explosion
TO occur at exactly the same hour
James B., blew up a job at Columbus,
Ind, telegraph signal having been
arranged to send word when he was
ready, TO John j., at Indianapolis. At
John ]. McNamara's instructions. Nc
Manigal said. he went to Springfield.
Mass, and there met Michael J. Young
the union official at Boston, who point
ed out a tower In the group Of NUM-
cipal buildings he wanted blown up.
Young told me to lay the tower
fat on the ground" testified McMani-
gal. "He said he had had some trouble
with the foreman, but said had not
come to clean up any person but TO
blow UP a Job. l put two bombs In
the tower, April 3.
After I returned to Indianapolis
we mapped out the four Jobs TO be
blown up In Detroit. J. j., said we
were to receive 5000 for each Job.
went to Detroit to look over the
ground, purchasing a map OF the city
there on which | marked the location
OF the American Bridge company, the
Detroit Bridge & Iron works and two
other iron works that were to be
blown up the same night
Il then went to Chicago to visit my
home. There I met r. II. Houlihan,
financial secretary Of the local union.
| asked him whether he had heard the
news about the Columbus. Ind, Arm
going to unionize their Jobs thereafter
and were going to use only union men
in concrete work at Oklahoma City,
Okla. He replied More power 70 the
rough gang
ION April IL, left for Toledo TO
meet James B.. at the station there.
The next day we went to Detroit and
were arrested"
McManigal testified that he and
James B., had been promised 5000 for
causing an explosion at South CHI
cago. on Feb. "a, and that they were
unable to place the bombs near
enough to the plant because OF the
glare OF nearby furnaees-
James 3. Mcnamara, put the dy
in dynamite" remarked a government
official in attendance at the dynamite
trial today, discussing
Ortie r. McManigal's testimony that
celebrated his escape from
California following the Times en-
plosion, by getting drunk.
McManigaps pet name with the Is
defendants Ii "Phariah," excepting
the unprintable ephithets applied TO
him by the iron workers. -