The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-11-27
N 'MAN|GAL TELLS
Of DYNAN|TERS
HOW HE AND MCNAMARA TALKED
OF BLOWING UP PANAMA CAN
AL LOCKS.

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 26.-The
contentious OF the defense that the
McNamaras and Ortie L. McManigal
alone were responsible for explosions
and that the iron Workers union ex-
ecutive board and President Frank VI &.
Ryan knew nothing OF any $1,000 ex-
pended from the union funds for de-
stroying nonunion property were
pursued ip the cross examination OF
McManigal at the dynamite conspir-
acy trial today.
Before being turned over by the gov
ernment, McManigal had told stories
OF how he and the McNamaras had
talked OF blowing up the locks OF the
Panama Canal and how James B. Nc
Namara was TO return 10 Los angeles
and wipe that city off the map by a
series of explosions, and how they
were prevented from carrying out
these plots by their arrest In April
1911. He also related that after his
and James B. McNamara's arrest in
Detroit, and on the train to Chicago
James b. offered Guy Biddinger, q
detective, $4,000 to allow them to es-
cape, telling Biddinger. IF you don
get it Clarence Darrow will
Senator John W. Kern of the de
tense cross examined McManigal.
WAS the pay you received from
the McNamaras your motive in causing
so many explosions asked Senator
Kern.
No, ct was not money. Herbert
5. Hockin, when he first started me
into the dynamiting business, tele
phoned me saying if l didn't do II
he would prevent me from gettng
work. Then | was prompted by a
foolish notion that it was for the good
OF the Iron Workers union. My mind
was inflamed with the idea it would
build up the union.
McManigal admitted he had been
arrested three times, twice for lar
ceny and once for disorderly con-
duct.
After the Los Angeles Times build.
ing was blown up, when you and
James B. were hunting n the woods
OF Wisconsin. you say he admitted
to you that he deliberately killed the
twenty one persons; that he was Il
printer and he knew he would kill
someone when he put the bomb in
the Times building, and yet you con-
tinued to associate with him.
Yes, | id.
McManigal had said that when J g.
J. Mcnamara, secretary Of the union,
planned wholesale explosions, includ-
ing the blowing-up OF Los Angeles
City he was afraid the executive
board would cut off his allowance.
Plans to Kill Treasurer
Now, you say Mcnamara, in order
to get more money, proposed to steal
SljO,OOO by Killing the treasurer OF
the automobile races at the Speedway
in indianapolis, and yet you still kept
company with these men who planned
the MURDER
Yes, | did
McManigal told in detail how much
he had been paid for each job.
When you caused the explosions
in the Llewllyn Iron plant in Los An.
geles on Dec. %, 1910, how much did
YOU charge for it?"
Il got s525, which included my ex-
penses." Other witnesses interrupt
ed McManigals examination.
Other Witnesses
Mrs. Sadie Mcclure testified she
vas a neighbor in Chicago of the
McManigal family. She said in Nov
cmber, 1910, the month after the Los
Angeles Times explosion, at the re-
quest of Mrs. McManigal, she arrang-
ed with her uncle, Marion Sharp,
Kenosha Wis, tor McManigal TO JOIN
a hunting tip. When the hunters
returned to Chicago in January, she
said she went to a theater party, one
of the party being man who answer
ed James B. McNamara's descrip'
ton.
She accompanied Mrs. McManigal
ma +ba Iat.ar's children IN California