Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-11
MOST IMPORTANT EVIDENCE
GRAND JURY HEARD HIGHLY M
PORTANT TESTIMONY
YESTERDAY.
NJ 'MANIGAL CORROB0RATED
His Father Took the Stand and Con-
firncd story Told by
Ortic.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 1O.-The
most important evidence yet obtained
in the governmen, : investiga ion ot
the dynamite conspiracy is believed
to have been presented today. The
line of inquiry was directed towards
the pertaining of completely of men
other than those already convicted Or
indicted and TO have raised questions
as TO:
Who handed McManigal an envel-
ope containing $3.50 a few days af er
he had blown up part of railroad
bridge at Clinton, Iowa, on February
/, 1903?
who met him in Boston and
showed him where to put the dyna-
opera house there on March 27, 1909,
and who went with him from Boston
to Springfield, Mass, where McMani
gal blew up part of the municipal
buildings?
who met him in New York city
September 8. 1909, and escorted him
to Hoboken, where he attempted but
failed. to blow up a vladuct?
Whom in Jersey City, July 10.
1909. and pointed out viaduct to be
blown up?
Who met McManigal in Peoria,
Ills, and took him about town to
show him some iron in a freight yard
which later McManigal blew up?
McManigal's Father Testified.
McManigal and his father, James
L. McManigal OF Tiffln, Ohio, in
whose shed stores Of explosives were
kept In readiness to be carried wher-
ever Job" was to be done, We're be-
fore the grand jury almost all day.
The persons who met him at various
places. according to McManigal were
others than the Mcnamara brothers.
Much Of his testimony has been cor
roborated by witnesses who were COM
PEELED to testify who said they saw
him at 'he time and places mentioned.
james McManigal Is said to have
confirmed his sons story about visit
ing Tiffin to get fresh supplies of ex-
plosives.
The government detectives who are
assisting United State District Attor-
ney Charles w. Miller. are declared
to have followed this line Of inquiry:
THAT many of the 100 or more ex-
plosions directed against open shop
employers in the last five years, oc-
Cured in cities at times when both
McNamaras We're far distant.
Who Were The Others?
THAT therefore if McManigal had
assistance in these instances, it came
from others than the McNamaras.
THAT. without asking for informa-
ton locally, that McManigal could
hardly in a single day visit a city un-
familiar to him, pick out job.
blow it up and escape"
McManlgal in his confesson said
he did receive assistance and that he
did meet various men. but the gov
ernment Is now seeking corroborativo
evidence, If it exists along this line.
The tracing of men from Cleveland
and Toledo, who visited Tiffin. is be-
lieved to have been taken up by the
grand Jury through the examination
of McManlgal's father.
In a woodshed near his fathers
home. McManigal kept at times more
than 1000 pounds Of explosives. and
he says. he sometimes was visited at
Tiffin by men who accompanied him
from various cities in Ohio.
Disclosures attributed to Ortie Nc
Manlgal are said to be back of scores
OF subpoenaes issued here today for
people in New York city. Pennsylvania
and numerous points in the middle
West
McManigal. before the federal
grand Jury. is understood to have
named men not mentioned in the con-
spiracy.