Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-12
In Confession Before Court
Today He Implicated J.'B.
Mcnamara, Secretary
Hockin and J. E. Munsey.
THOUGHT HOCKIN
WAS HOLDING OUT
Accused the Secretary of
Being a Double Crosser;;
Told of Jobs Where He
Did the Dynamiting.

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 11.-Going
deeper in his adventures as paid
dynamiter, Ortie E. McManigal told at
the dynamite conspiracy trial today
Of wrecking bridge viaducts and build
ings In various cities.
After l blew up the power house OF
car shop in Mount Vernon, ILL.,, Her.
bert S. Hockin came to me at Chicago,
and said had gotten the wrong job
testified McManigal. He said l
should have blown up railroad bridge
and the unions executive board would
not allow me pay for the job.
"A few days later Hockin returned
with J. B. Mcnamara. Mcnamara
said he had just come from Salt Lake
City where he had blown up the new
Utah hotel building on April 49, He
told me ]. e. Munsey, the business
agent at Salt Lake City had arranged
for the explosion and Munsey also ar
ranged to prove an alibi when the ex-
plosion came of by going to a store
and talking to the persons there.
Showing me q newspaper picture OF
the Salt Lake City explosion, Nc
Namara said it had been terrific and
1t came nearly blowing statute OF
Brigham Young off a pedestal. Hockin
went to Cincinnati in June and wired
me to follow. told him / would do
one of two things: work for living
and quit dynamiting. or do nothing
but dynamiting. Hockin said he had
plenty for me to do He said was to
70 to Indianapolis, get twelve quarts
Of nitroglycerine and blow up the
Denison- Harvard yiaduct in Cleveland
on June %.
u. B. Mcnamara accompanied me
from Cincinnati to Indianapolis On
the train told Mcnamara that Hook
in was to pay me 1925 for each job.
He was surprised, saying the execu-
tive board was allowing 5000 and ex-
penses for each job.
81 said Hockin was holding out on
me-, McNamara said the big fellow
(meaning ]. J.. Mcnamara, his brother
who was treasurer of the Iron Work
ers' union) would see that I was paid
in full hereafter.
Hockin Double Crosser.
"At the Iron Workers headquarters
in indianapolis, ]. B. and J. J. Nc
Namara and compared accounts and
found Hockin had held out $500 on me
for all the jobs I had done. J. J. said
he always suspected Hockin was a
double crosser and now he knew it. He
said he was going to tell President
Frank M Ryan about it: but I was to
70 right on with the jobs as HoclSin
planned.
~. B., and /, with three nitro
glycerine bombs of four quarts each
packed in suitcases, departed for
Cleveland. reaching there June 18,
1910. four days before the explosion.
"Hockin appeared and said he had
seen Peter J. Smith, who said every
! thing was all right. When we were
ready to pull off the explosion we were
to telephone Smith to keep under
cover.
"Hockin also said they were prepar-
ing to blow up jobs at Detroit, that
the carpenters union had put up 500
and the sheet metal workers were will
ing to do their share. The carpenters,
he said wanted to get manufactur-
ing company"
'At ABOUT nine o CLOCK Oh rainy
night we put the bombs on the Cleve-
land job, after crawling on our
stomachs to elude the watchman, re-
turned to town and took train for
Toledo. At Toledo we read in the
newspapers an account of the Cleve-
land explosion.
"Then we went to Detroit where we
met man with black eyes. J. B.
said he had had 500 from the carpen.
ter's union to pay us for the work.
'Do you see in court now the man
who had the black eye?" McManigal
was. asked.
The witness pointed out Charles
Z Wachmeiste former iron workers
business agent in Detroit who is de-
fendant.
'.After ]. B. had gotten from an ex-
press office a package of Internal ma
chimes that had been shipped from
Indianapolis" continued McManigal che
said there had been too much talking
going on in Detroit and we would not
blow any jobs at that time. went
out in field and buried twelve quarts
OF nitroglycerine marking the spot by
hanging tin can on tho branch Of q
nearby tree"