The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-12-28

maras decided to have 1ttie u uo
, him. Knowing this, Hockin went
. a contractor in Pittsburg and betraSe
+ the dynamiters. That was before u
. loss of life at Los Angeles Aa'o
, Hockin worked for Burns, while SUI
remaining as an official of the unioi
/ and when the Federal grand jury O'
gan work in indianapolis, Hockin too
information to the government
The testimony at the trial resui'e'
in the increasing of Hockin's bonds 81
that he was confined to Jail. HocAii
asserted to those for whom he was az
cused of acting as a spy, that he TOOL
no part in dynamiting, but witnesses
from Muncie.. Ind. and at Cincinnati
pointed him out as the man to WHOM
they actually sold explosives
Hockin again was the man mos
mentioned by Mechanical. AFTER ne
had induced me to blow up a loD III
Detroit in 1907" said McManlgai
"Hockin told me there was no use OIL
my attempting to quit now as tne'
had the goods on me. ] asked MIN
who was going to pay me for my WORN
He said the executive board had set
aside a limited fee of S125 for each
iob and expenses. I told him it was
too little for a thing like that lie
replied my family would be taken care
of If anything happened. So l went
to Bloomville, Ohio and got an order
from Nat France to Bill Carey, VINO
was the keeper of magazine where
dynamite was stored for use in stone
quarry, and they let me have some
without knowing what | was going u
do with 1t. I used it to blow up
derrick at Clinton, Iowa, Feb. TO-
1908.
"Hockin two weeks later visited me
again in Chicago and said ne did not
have enough money to pay expenses
for the Clinton job, but for me TO 90
to the hall of the local union. When
I went there the secretary, R. H. Hou-
Than, gave me an envelope containing
SIG. Houlihan said There is money
in that"
In July of 1908, according to Nc
Manigal Hockin met him in Buffalo
and after pointing out viaduct, said
he wanted to get to Canada before the
explosion took place. About II o'clock
hat night McManigal set off the dyna-
mite with a sixty-foot fuse. He said
dockin met him later in Chicago and
paid him.
Then Hockin asked Mechanical to
20 to St Louis, but he refused, and
vent instead to Holyoke, Mass, where
IN explosion failed because the dyna-
mite was buried in the ground too
ong, Mechanical said.
up to March, 1909, Hockin was the
'nly man who knew me as a dyna-
inter-" said McManigal. Just before
hat date he arranged for me to 20 to 3
'oston and see M. ]. Young regarding 1
he job on the Boston opera house, Il
'hich was blown up" Later on in b
truction from Hockin, Mechanical a
aid he went to Hoboken to confer i
nth Frank c. Webb, of New York, a
bout blowing up a viaduct. A dis a
ute arose and McManigal told Webb \
hat Hockin was paying for the work
nd he purposed to follow instruc. S
ons. F
"Hockin paid me $3.50 for the Bos, Ii
IN and Hoboken jobs" said McMani- a
al. Then 1t was arranged I should n
leet ]. B. Mcnamara for the first b
me. Hockin had telegraphed me to n
leet him In Indianapolis We went Il
ON there to Muncie, Ind, where we v
let. j. B. Hockin made all arrange. ii
ents here about getting rigs, boxes re
I'd cans for the nitroglycerin he was q
egotiating for. He had me buv
ano box and rent house, fill barrels til
18th sawdust and put them in the m
'use for storing the explosive. Hockin al
lid me for the rent of the house and dy
ranged with a well-shooter to get the Tt
troglycerin, which we transferred to O.
e house in Muncie. r,
I'm February, 1910, in Chicago I %
ceived a telegram from Hockin to to
me to Indianapolis. | did not go bpt ev
B. Mcnamara came to Chicago and P;
Id me Hockin had sent him to ex.
ain new invention. ]. B. explainod
'out the alarm clock arrangement nv
1ich we in the future were tn ragn IN
Ie the time for exploding bombs A of
W days later Hockin wired me IN d,
me to Indianapolis, where he and tr
d j. j. Mcnamara fully went over or
e clock scheme. With it 7 wont ~ :,
t. vernon, ILL.,, and pulled off a iob a.
a power house, for which Hockin Il
i'd me $685." =
IL was In the summer of 1910 when !.
blossoms wero fraouoo4 IL. ~. -