Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-11-09
M'MAN|GAL is
ON STAND IN
TRIAL.
He DIRECTLY ACCUSES HOCkINS OF
EMPLOYING HIM TO DYNAMITE
AND TELLS now He DID the
JOB AND HOW he FELT

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 9.-For the
first time in public since his arrest
nineteen months ago, Ortie e. Nc
Manigal related at the trial of the ac-
cused bomb plotters' today his eX-
periences as a hired dyuamiter The
confessed accomplice OF the Nc
Namara brothers, as government
witness directly accused Herbert S.
Hockin now international secretary
OF the Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers. of inducing
him to do dynamiting under pay of the
union.
He said Hocllin had threatened to
boycott him from every job if he re-
fused to accept the dynamiting com
mission.
MCManigal told how for more than
four years he caused explosions about
the country against employers of non
union labor.
At the outset McManigal asserted,
he attempted to protect the lives of
people whenever setting off bomb.
At his first job in Detroit, June 25,
1907, he told of pushing garbage
taurant SO the people would not run
out and be injured or killed by an eX-
plCsion across an alley.
Il had been member of the Iron
e;,, IL
Manigal. in June, 1907, Hockin came
to me while | was working on the
Ford building in Detroit and said the
executive board of the union had de-
cided to clean out, the open shop con-
Germs and that | was the man to do
it,
You used to work in a stone
quarry and you know how to use ex-
plosives," he said. You'll be paid by
the union | protested but he told
me if | didn't do as the executive
board said, he would see that ! was
boycotted against getting job, so
finally consented.
Il went to the stone quarry of my
uncle, William Behm, at Bloomville,
Ohio, June %, and brought back to
Detroit, in a sui case, thirty-five
pounds of dynamite, some fuses and
caps.
Il told him | had the dynamite in
my room. He said: All right you've
gone this far and you had better pull
off the job between | and o'clock in
he morning.
In my room | prepared three
bombs, each with fifty feet of fuse. |
went back to the Ford building and
waited in an alley to see if there were
any police about. Seeing none, | put
one bomb in the firebox boiler in the
under construction, another
n an air compressor and third near
he cylinder.
Joining the ends OF the fuse at one |
)oint, | lit all of them They were
iXed to go off at about l a. m. 1t
vas then 10 p. IN. ] again loafed
bout the alley ! noticed a kitchen
loor at the rear of restaurant op-
ned on the alley opposite where the
'ombs were, and thinking some peo-
lie might run out at the first explo-
ion and be injured by the second or
bird, ! shot the door and jammed
barrel OF garbage against it. Then
went to my room and waited to hear
he noise.
ut came about l o'clock Later |
card the newsboys calling Extra.
'It reminded me still I'D some
Xplosives in my room. What should 1
do with them? | didn't care . so
ut with a package. That would ex-
ite suspicion So | took what dyna-
1ite had left to the bath room and
utting it into small pieces, flushed
out
"Did you see Hockin the next {
ay?" asked District Attorney Miiirr.
Yes, he paid me $40 for expenses
} Dloomville, He said | would be ]
ally compensated for my work as {
le executive hlard had set aside a
artain amount for each job, but hc
aid must keep at it. He said ! |
.ould receive SIPS for a job at first :
nd | was to send newspaper ac |
ouDt of each explosion so he could +
ct the money from the international Y
nion. The clipping was kind of q
artificate that the explosion had oc- f
lrred."
thinking the police were watch c
ig me as it was my first explosion"
)ntinued McNlanigal, Il decided to \
ave Detroit. wanted to work and E
,r them to let me alone. But Hoe
in kept after me saying We've got d
le goods on you now and you have +
, keep at it. for we are going to :,
can out the National Erectors asso- ,
ation''
81 went to Chicago and worked
lerc. The next February Hockin 3.
ime to my house in South Sanga- =
on street and said he had a job for {
e at Clinton, Iowa.
Il went to Clinton. 1t was a .
ouble track railroad bridge across ,
le Mississippi river. l pulled off =
le job pretty much in the same way
) the other one, placing thirty sticks :
dynamite at various places. One
It of dynamite failed to SO off on ,
count of being frozen. When saw :