Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-12-28

corroborative witnesses were needed.
every city. Dozens of them were
brought from the Pacific coast to re-
main on the stand only a few min
utes. A curly-headed, dimple-cheek
ed girl, garbed in pink dress, was
called from North Randall, o.. to
point out in the court room Peter J.
Smith and George (Nipper) Ander-
son of Cleveland. as men she saw
going up a lonely road with box
Randall A mechanic came from Ha-
/ waii to tell of overhearing certain
of the defendants discuss proposed
i explosions in Detroit. An engineer
came from Panama to recount his
experiences with Hockin. Men who
drive livery wagons, check boys in
railway stations, who cared for suit
cases, filled with internal machines,
hotel clerks who booked" the Nc
Namaras and McManigal for rooms,
detectives, stenographers, contract
ors who suffered from explosions,
and telephone operators, all related
piecemeal their knowledge Of the de-
PENDANTS conversations or move
ments, which the government under
took to weave into a completed
, story to show at once the individual
guilt of each, and the collective guilt
of all the defendants.
OF all the defendants Herbert S.
Hockin was probably the most con-
spicous in the testimony.
: The story of Hockin, as told, was:
As an organizer for the union he IN.
! duced McManigal to do dynamiting
q Then he began to hold out" on the
i pay allowed McManigal for jobs. This
! resulted in quarrels, and the McNa
: maras decided to have little to dc
with him. Knowing this, Hockir
Z went to contractor in, Pittsburg and
|, betrayed the dynamiters. That was
, before the loss of life at Los Ange
e les. Later Hockin worked for Burns
r while still remaining as an officia
of the union, and when the fedora
grand jury began work in Indianapo
!. lis. Hockin took information to thu
d government.
= The testimony at the trial resulte'
+ in the increasing of Hockin's bonds
e so that he was confined to jail. Hock
N in asserted to those for whom he wa
y accused of acting as a spy, that h
4 took no part in dynamiting, but wi
,e nesses from Munice, Ind, and a
s. Cincinnati pointed him out as tn
o' man to whom they actually sold e.
AZ plosives.
It, Hooking again was the, man mos
le mentioned by McManigal. After b
=, had induced me to blow up jo
st in Detroit in 1907" said McManiga
a 'Hockin told me there was no US
no of my attempting to quit now,
20 'p they had the goods on me. ask
ho him who was going to pay me I,
my work He said the executi'
or board had set aside a limited fee
ny S125 for each job and expenses.
told him it was too little for a thin
u" like that. He replied my fami
would be taken care of if anythil
-. "a happened. So | went to Bloomvil
no Ohio, and got an order from N
he France to Bill Carey, who was t
Nc keeper of magazine where dyr
ln ~ mite was stored for use in a sto
ras quarry and they let me have sol
nd without knowing what | was goi
dy- to do with il. ] used 1t to blow
Ma derrick at Clinton, Iowa, Februa
.av 16. 1908.
he Hockin two weeks later visited
the again in Chicago and said he did !
ION have enough money to pay expen'
for for the Clinton job, but for me to
rive TO the hall of the local unuion. WI
'eie | went tnere Tue scSi - ~
as Houlihan, gave me an envelope c
Inc i;ns tanning $165. Houlihan said; TIL
sent is money in that
be In July of 1908, according to
,ials Nanig.l Hockin met him in Blu
De 10. and after pointing out viad'
,ent said he wanted to get to Canada
rted fore the explosion took place. Ah
1t II O'Clock that night McMan
,he set off the dynamite with 6o-l
with fuse. He said Hockin met him II
ex- in Chicago and paid him.
its Then Hockin asked McMsnigal
nted 20 to st. Louis, but he refused
: = went instead to Holyoke, N