The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-16
JeweEy store Employees Tes.
tify That He Purchased
Many Alarm Clocks.
RESIDENTS CORROBORA1ED HIM
ABOUT VACANT HOUSE USED
Actions of Dynamiters Led Muncie
Women and Children to Believe the
Place was Hauntetl-Was Used to
Hide Dynamite.

nIU6 Dyn6uutP.
Indianapolis. Nov. 16.-Jewelry
store employees testified today how
Ortie McManigal had purchased Il
large number of alarm clocks used
later. according to the government, in
touching off dynamite explosions
against non-union buildings under
construction. Miss Margaret Burns
testified McManigal bought twelve
alarm clocks at Pittsburg in July,
1910. saying he wanted them for
friends in the country. Miss Anna Ell
liott testified McManigal purchased
at an India napolis store all the alarm
clocks in stock.
According to McManigal. j. j. Nc
Namara. secretary of the Iron Work.
ers' union. used to keep a stock of
clocks locked in the vault in his Of
flee. The clocks were fitted to bombs
prearranged time the handles of the
winders connected up battery and
caused the explosion.
Several residents of Muncie. Ind,
also testified concerning the vacant
house in that city in which McMani-
gal said he, the McNamaras and Her
bert Hockin stored nitroglycerine in
large quantities.. The witnesses said
the nightly trips to the house and the
strange movements of the men. now
said to have been bringing dynamite
there, caused the neighbors and chill
dren to regard the place as haunted.
In detailing his confession on the
witness stand. William E. Clark. an
iron worker. told Of personally blow
ing up work on railroad bridge
across the Miami river at Dayton. on
May 8, 1908. and Of leaving behind
an umbrella which bore his initials.
Clark asserted officials Of the Interna-
tional Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers induced him
to do dynamiting. Once. he said.
while inspecting work in Cincinnati
President Frank NJ. Ryan pointed to
river and said there would be good
place to put a shot, -;
Before that. the witness said. Her
bert s. Hockin. now secretary Of the
union. arranged to supply him with
dynamite.
1--WE had some correspondence with
J. j. Mcnamara at indianapolis
about union conditions in Cincinnati
when in May, 1908. Hockin appeared
and told me he was going to spend
some money there" said Clark. "He
where he introduced me to Edward
Campbell, who was to supply the dy-
Mantle. Hockin said l was to receive
800 for the Dayton job. I returned
to the place that night with mar
ket basket. Campbell gave me fifty
half pound sticks of dynamite. Hockin
wanted me to take william Bern
hardt, a local official to Dayton. but
said I would do the job alone.
Having kept the dynamite in my
house that night I took it the next
the bridge over the Miami river. 1t
was raining hard so left my umbrel-
Ia over the bomb to protect 1t. lit the
fuse and departed.
"The next day in Cincinnati Hockin
didn't appear anxious to pay me the
800. He had a newspaper account
Of the explosion. Finally he gave me
$97 on the street.
"when the question Of blowing up
the Harrison avenue viaduct in Gin
cinnati came up. Hockin said he was
not going to let me do it. as McNa.
mara and Ryan were not pleased with
the way l had done the Dayton job
I had left behind my umbrella with
nv initials on It he said. and they
were likely to catch me.
"But he sent me out to Campbell
for more dynamite. took 1t home
in a basket and the next day. pack:
ing 1t in telescope case. delivered
It by appointment to Hockin and an
other man. That was in August.
1908, and the explosion on the Har'
rison avenue viaduct occurred on Au.
gust 6. Campbell had procured more
dynamite at the time he got the last
lot for me. going about four miles
from the place we met him to get 1t
Two more explosions occurred In May
1909, and another in August. all or
the bridge which Ryan had pointed
out, hut I didn't do them.
II went into dynamiting because ir
listening to others I was inflamed with
a foolish idea that 1t was a good way
to carry on campaign against non
union work. ! certainly knew l Wat
committing crime"
Edward Campbell. mentioned by
Clark, testified he formerly worked ir
a stone quarry and had been used tt
buying dynamite. He said Hockir
arranged for him to drive out to a
powder magazine to buy the explosive
and had paid him for the livery hire
On CROSS examination by attorney.
for the defense Clark admitted he hac
Oe0u COuSlSlcu vi uuAhoA OOo Ssoa eS'
hut denied he ever had been indicted
for highway robbery. or had withheld
the unions funds.
Joseph B. schafer Of the Cincinnati
police department testified concerning
a visit to the home of J. j. McNa-
mara's mother the day after McNa.
mara's arrest on April %. 1911. He
produced a battery tester and fias'
light which he said he found In Nc.
Namara's trunk. Guided by Frank
Eckhoff. friend of the McNamara
family, Schafer said he found a place
in the woodshed near the home where
nitroglycerine had been buried.
AMERICAN ON JOB.
Washington. Nov. 16.-Upon rec.
ommendation of President Taft. Reed
Paige Clark he's been appointed gen.
erai receiver of customs in Liberia
under an agreement signed yesterda,
In London. whereby the United States
Garman and French and British hank.