Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-11

McManigal's Testimony at
Indianapolis Results in
Summoning Of Many Ad-
ditional Witnesses.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 10.-Sub-
poenas for scores of persons who are
believed to know about explosions In
New York City, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Iowa and other points were issued to-
day BY the government officials who
are conducting the federal grand
jury's investigation> >of the dynamite
conspiracy. ~
Many of the witnesses are said to
be called because of new disclosures
made by Ortie E. McManigal, the con-
fessed dynamiter, who for three days
has been examined by United States
Attorney Charles w. Miller. AS the
former accomplice of John J. McNa-
mara, secretary of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, who paid him for blow
ing up the structures erected by "open
shop contractors, McManigal is said
to have mentioned men who have not
heretofore been lamed, either at Los
Angeles, Cal, or elsewhere.
McManigal continued today to go
over his confession in detail The
financial accounts taken by the gov
ernment from McNamara's office are
alleged to have aided the witness to
throw much fresh light on the inquiry,
particularly with reference to the
1000 a month allowed Mcnamara
"for organizing purposes" and for
which he was required to give no &C
counting. The governments efforts
are centered on finding out how many
people had knowledge of the use to
which the money was put. VI
McManiqaI Repeats His Story.
How McManigal, in blowing up ma
chfnery owned by an open shop" con-
tractor at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, on April
is, 1910, first used the alarm clock at
tachment as a time regulator In set
ting OF hts bombs WAS lofd to the gov
eminent officials who are conducting
the grand jury's inquiry into the dyna-
mite conspiracy. d:
The clock experiment at Mount Yer.
non was pronounced by McManigal to
be such a success. that it was used
later in blowing up the Los Angeles
Times building and other structures.
James l.. Parker formerly a hotel
clerk at Evansville, Ind, was before
the grand jury. He is believed to have
been called in connection with NC
Manigars visit to Mount Vernon. ,s
Plan to Establish AIibi.
In his confession McManigal said he
was called to Indianapolis few days
before the Mt. Vernon job by John }.
Mcnamara, who showed him, in the
office Of the international Asso citation
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers, the alarm clock scheme, which
Mcnamara called new invention"
"McNamara explained that by set
ting the alarm to go off several hours
after we placed the bomb, we could
make a good getaway on the train,
and, the clock being blown up, we
could prove we were in some other
town when the explosion occurred"
McManiga1 said. It was agreed /
should go to Mount Vernon and try 1t
out. For the Mount Vernon job I re-
ceived $125.'
Testifies Of Los Angeles Crime.
r. Los. Angeles, Cal, Jan. 1Q-J. B.
Bishop, who said he was union man,
testified in the Connors dynamiting
conspiracy trial that he and Connors,
with Maple and Bender, Connors' CO.
defendants, placed the dynamite in the
alley beside the hall of records.
Bishop, whose identity has been
kept under cover, declared he met
Connors, Maple and Bender at the
labor temple on the night of Septem-
Der 8, 1910. Connors, he declared, took
him into the basement, and while
there he saw Connors reach up over
the boiler of the heating plant and
take down two sticks Of dynamite.
"'We are going to blow up the hall
of records Connors said to u.s. the
witness testified. And there will be
$4,000 back of u.s.