Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-28

ed often. He was accused as having
furnished Captain and Schmidt dy'
Mantle to help blow up the
"Tines" building. He was nam.
ed as having sent word to
the coast" and as having requested
the dynumiters again be sent to Los
Angeles, later acknowledging another
explosion there on Dec. 20, 1910, as "a
christmas present" McMan!gal said
he called at Tyeitmoe's Office in a
Francisco. but met only Eugene A.
Clancy there. Anton %Johannsen vas
mentioned by witnesses as having
helped Tveitmoe, William !, Burns
testified he told Mayor Alexander, OF
Los Angeles, the day after the ex-
plosion, that "Tveitmoe and Johann.
sen were behind It." Testimony about
Johannsen was permitted on the
ground that through aot a defendant,
she had been shown to be a con-
%spirator.'
J.. e. Munsey, Salt Lake City, was
charged with harboring the Los An
geles dynamiter for two weeks. A
tailor in Salt Lake City said he alter
ed clothes for the dynaniter, and
other witnesses said they saw Mum
sey, also known as Jack Bright" and
Mcnamara together.
Clancy was again mentioned as be.
ing in Boston when the Pacific coast
explosion occurred, and as hurrying
west after telegraphing Clean
house." meaning, as the government
charged, tc destroy evidence. II. w.
Pohiman, OF Seattle, was mentioned
as bringing Mcnamara and Clancy to-
gether in that city.
Hockin Most Prominent
OF all the defendants Herbert S,
Hockin was probably the most con
: spicous in the testimony.
, AS an organizer for the union he in
! duced McManigal to do dynamiting,
Then he began to hold out" on the
. pay allowed McManigal for jobs. This
! resulted in quarrels, and the McNa
maras decided to have little to do with
him. Knowing this, Hockin went tC
a contractor in Pittsburgh and be
= trayed the dynamiters. That was be
fore the loss of life at Los angeles
!, Latter Hockin worked for Burns
y while still remaining as an official Of
4 the union, and when the federal
i grand jury began work in indianapolis
Hockin took information to the gov
ermment. ...
Hockin's Bonds Cancelled
: The testimony at the trial resulted
t in the c%ancelling of Hockil's bonds
+ SO that he was confined to Jail
t H0ckin asserted to those for whom he
was accused of acting as a spy, that he
| took no part in dynamiting, but wit
t nesses from Munice, Ind. and a
Cincinnati pointed him out as the mar
to whom they actually sold explosives
-, Hockin again was the man mos
= mentioned by McManigal. after hi
had induced ne to blow up a job ir
Detroit in 1905" said McManigaI
= "Hockin told me there was no use. o
my attempting to quit now, as they
had the goods on me. ! asked hin
who was going to pay me for my work
He said the executive board had Sc
aside a limited fee Of $125 for eaCl
job and expenses. ! told him it wa!
too little for a thing like that. He
replied my family would be taker
care OF if anything happened. So
went to Bloomville, Ohio, and got al
|order from Nat France to Bill Carney
who was the keeper of a magazine
where dynamite was stored for use
in a stone quarry, and they let me
have some without knowing what
was going to do with it. | used it tt
blow up a derrick at Clinton, Iowa
Feb. 16, 1908.
Local Unions Helped Out
"Hockin two weeks later visited ne
again in Chicago and said he did moi
have enough money to pay expenses
for the Clinton job, but for me to &C
to the hall Of the local union. When
| went there the secretary, R.TH. Hou
Than, gave me an envelope containing
1876. Houlihan said: There is money
in that. 49,
In July of 1908. according to Nc
Manigal. Hockin met him in Buffalo
and after pointing out a viaduct, said
he wanted to get to Canada before the
explosion took place. About II
lo'clock that night Mechanical set of
the dynamite With a sixty,foot fuse
He said Hockin met him later In
Chicago and paid him.
Then Hockin asked McManigal tC
60 to st. Louis, but he refused, and
went instead to Holyoke, Mass, where
an explosion failed because the dyna
mite vas buried in the ground toe
long, McManigal said.
up to March, 1909, Hockin vas the
only man who knew me as a dyna
mitter," said McManigal. Gust before
that date he arranged for me to go tC
Boston and see M. J. Young regarding
the job on the Boston Opera House.
which was blown up" Later. on in
struction from Hockin, MECHANICAL
said he went to Hoboken to confer
with Frank C. Webb, of New York,
about blowing UP a viaduct. A dis
pute arose and McManigal told Webb
that Hockin was paying for the work
and he purposed to follow instruc'
lions.
$3.50 for Two Jobs
"Hockin paid me $3.50 for the Bos'
ton and Hoboken Jobs" said McMani,
gal. "Then it was arranged | should
meet +. B. Mcnamara for the first
time. Hockin had telegraphed me to
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