Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-11-22

ICRlTICIZED FOR TOO
LITTLE WORK DONE
Witness Gives Details of How
Explosives Were Secured
and Tells Of Cold BIooded
Proposition to Do Murder,

Proposition to Do Murder
IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire +,
Indianapolis, Nov. 2i - Equipped
with twelve quarts of nitroglycerin,
Orue ~ McManigal. in December,
1910. went to Los Angeles, commits
stoned to destroy the Times auxiliary
plant and by adding few more to
the list Of the dead" to take suspicion
off James Z. Mcnamara. who had
killed twenty-one persons in the wreck
Of The Times building two months be-
fore.
! NcManigal SO testified today at the
! dynamite conspiracy trial. He
named men other than the McNama-
ras as having inspired the second Los
Angeles plot. He said he learned on
| reaching Los Angeles that the auxili-
/ ary plant was too well guarded. In
stead he set a bomb in an iron works
! plant to explode on Christmas day.
= That was the christmas present"
he said olaf A Tveitmoc, 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 Tveimoes being absent he left
this message with Eugene A. Clancy:
Tell Tveitmoe his Christmas pres
opt has bcer delivered
| 1t was the same "Christmas pres
ent," The government charges. which
| Tvcitmoe later referred to in letter
I to Frank M. Ryan president OF the
| Iron Workers union.
| on his return to Indianapolis, Nc
Manga said he was called down" by
J. j. MCNAMARA because not enough
| damage had been done at Los Angeles,
ana John j. proposed to send explo-
sives by express so regulated that they
would explode when unwrapped, but
McMangal protested saying the ex-
plosions might occur on the train and
kin innocent people. \
McManigal and James B. had been
hiding in the Wisconsin woods. Nc
Manga said. like a pair Of pirates.
each with a red handkerchief about
his head in conformity with the game
laws and rifle over his shoulder.
when a number OF detectives appeared
at their lodging house
Eluding the detectives they came
to Indianapols SO elated was J. ]. I
brother that he proposed that Nc
Manigal start at once for os An
geles
claim ! said he baa ,een Ia . h
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seen Tvcitnon tbern ana that T,ait
,n,n ,,.n,od come ,,.r, ov,,la,,,..,,. -,
conn arr IN the c,ast . saih NcManj- /
yuI .Ianos u s,id ~, would ~, -,
go out and do it. but J. J.. objected. |
SAYING they were looking for man
of his description on the coast and
il would be i rood idea for n stranger
to do the Jobs ANA rot back cast AZ
soon as possible and then The anthor
tiles wollld thinls their man was stu
in Los Angeles He snid was TO
cause three expIosions-the Times
plant the Baker Iron Works
ana the LleWellyn Iron Works. He
said Put good mess Of il under the
Times auxiliary and add few more
to the list Of dead They've been
Questioning TNeitmoe ana Anton
Johannson out there and Wen throw
them OFF the track
He also told me to fix un some
kind of IA suit case with "A bomb in it
So il would explode when ANYBODY
opened il He remembered how the
bombs az General otis and Mr.. Zee
handlnnr's houses had failed To work
and th, evidence was i'm thc h,hu1s uf
tho authorities. He wanted il fixed
sn that If the police got hold of any
Of my bombs. there would not he
much Of the bombs left when thcv Z
were opened.
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