Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-22
FOUND HIS DAUGHTER
PLAYING With STICKS
Tells of His Anger at J. B.
McNamara - Plans for
More Explosions at Los
Angeles to Allay Suspic-
ions Pointing to Union. i.

Indianapolis. Nov. 22.-Ort1s n Nc
Manigaps story Of finding his little
daughter in the kitchen Of his home in
Chicago playing with so one-pound
sticks of dynamite which he had left
in the radiator to thaw. was told by him
at the dynamite conspiracy trial today.
The girl, he said, was on the floor and
the dynamite. and James B. McNamara,
the Los Angeles Times dynamiter. was
testing battery on the door bell.
u. B. laughed when he saw my little
girl toying with the explosive" said
McManigal. "He said. Tell papa what
this is My little girl replied. why.
it's dynamite. I know 1t won't hurt
me-. and kept on playing. She said
she had seen boys ina vacant lot kick
ing about stick that looked like dyna-
mite.
"The way ]. B. laughed made me
mad and ordered hi mout Of the
house,"
McManigal told of stealing 1900
pounds of dynamite, hiding it in shed
at Tiffin, Ohio, and then transporting
it in a suit case to Indianapolis, where
it was stored in the union vaults and
barn. Confident that the agitation over
the Los Angeles explosion would blow
over and James b. Mcnamara be free
to do more Jobs, McManigal said. plans
were begun in January, 1911, to carry
on the dynamiting campaign with zest.
Having a new supply of dynamite, J. ].
Mcnamara planned to send dynamiters
out on Jobs.
About this time." McManigal testi-
fed, John ]. was startled by receiv-
ing a newspaper account of the finding
Of a suit case at San Francisco. ]. B.
said it was the suit case containing TIN
fuse and clocks he'd cecked. He'd
given theh check to David Caplan, tell
ing him to get the suit case and drown
it. But Caplan gold cold feet. being
afraid to show up where the suit case
was"
The job Of dynamiting the million
dollar steel plant In construction at
South Chicago. in February, 1911. Nc
Manigal said, was knocked down to the
lowest bidder. The Chicago local had
an offer from Cleveland men to do it
for $500. The executive board asked
Hoclin If 1t could be done cheaper.
McManigal and j. B. Mcnamara decid-
ed to do 1t. but the glare of nearby fur
naces was so great that they did not
dos as much damage as was hoped.
Planned to Take Moro Lives.
Equipped with IL quarts of nitrogly-
cerin, Ortie E. McManigal, in Decem-
ber, 1910. went to Los Angeles, to de-
stroy the Times auxiliary plant and
by adding a few more to the list of
the Dead" to take suspicion off James
b. Mcnamara. who had killed 81 per-
sons in the wreck of the Times build
ing two months before.
McManigal SO testified yesterday at
the dynamite conspiracy trial. He
named men other than the McNamaras
as having inspired the second Los An
geles plot He said he was prevent
ed from carrying 1t out by learning
on reaching Los Angeles that the aux
iliary plant was too we'll guarded. In
stead he set a bomb in an ironworks
plant to explode on Christmas day.
That was the "Christmas present" he
said Olaf A. Tveitmoe, a labor leader
in San Francisco, had asked for and
on his return east he stopped off at
Labor temple in San Francisco and on
Tveitmoe's being absent he left this
message with Eugene Clancy:
"Tell Tveitmoe his Christmas pres
ent has been delivered"
1t was the same christmas present"
the government charges, which Tveit-
moe later referred to In a letter to
Frank NJ. Ryan, president of the IRON
workers union.
On his return to Indianapolis. Nc
Manigal said he was "called down"
by ]. J. Mcnamara because not enough
damage had been done at Los Angeles
and John ]. proposed to send to Los
Angeles by express bombs SO regu-
lated that they would explode when
lunwrapped but McManigal protested.
| saying the explosions might occur on
the train and kill innocent people.
Eiudsd the Detectives.
McManigal and James B. had been
hiding in the Wisconsin woods, Nc.
Manigal said, like pair Of pirates
with rifles over their shoulders. wher
a number of detectives appeared a.