Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-11-13
MMANIGAL Tells
Of DYNAMITE WAR
SWearS HOCkin Forced Him Into
Work of Destruction.
"PING" WAS THE PASSWORD
Accomplish of Mcnamara Brothers
Testifying as Government Wit
ness Mentions Names of
Many Labor Leaders.

Indianapolis, Nov. 11.-Graphic
stories Of how he caused explosions,
how he carried dynamite in suitcases
on passenger trains and checked the
explosive at railway stations, how he
waited to place bombs, and how fron
every city where he blew up a Job"
he sent a souvenir spoon to his wife
in Chicago were related by Ortie B..
McManigal on the witness stand in
the trial of the forty-five accused
dynamite plotters."
Ping" an alias of Herbert S.
Hockin, McManigal said, was the pass
word he gave to labor leaders in vari-
Gus cities, SO they would know he was
the man sent to do a Job"
He named Frank G.. Webb, New
York; Michael J. Young, Boston;
Richard H. Houlihan, Chicago; James
Cooney, Chicago, and Frank M.
Ryan, all officials Of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, as among the defend
ants, besides the Mcnamara broth
ers, who knew he was employed as a
dynamiter.
Says Hockin Threatened Him.
Mechanical charged Hockin with
having started him on the ~dynamiting
work. He said Rockin approached
him while he was working in Detroit
and said:
"You used to work in a stone quar-
ry, and you know how to use exp1o-
sives. You'll be paid by the union"
81 protested" Mechanical con-
tinued, 'but he told me if I didn't
do as the executive board said, he'd
see that I was boycotted against get
ting a job. I finally consented"
After he had set his first bomb, Nc
Manigal testified, he wanted to get
out of the plot, but was coerced into
continuing.
81 wanted to work, and for them to
let me alone" he testified, "but Hook
in kept after me, saying: We've got
the goods or you now, and you have
to keep al it, for we are going to
clean out the National Erectors' as
ISOLATION"
Meets 81. B. Bryce"
After describing explosions at De
CIOlI anu O111ILOu, ld.s A1CAldulSdl les
titled:
In response to a telegram in De
cember, 1908, I went to Indianapolis
and then to Muncie, Ind. Hockin in
trodUced M to J. B. Bryce, who after
wards told me he was J. B McNa-
mara, brother of the man I had met
in Indianapolis. We rented a vacant
house in Muncie and proceeded to
fix it up as a place to hide nitro
glycerin. Hockin, J. B. Mcnamara,
and l drove to Albany, Ind, where we
bought 120 quarts of nitroglycerin,
telling the man it was to be used to
blow up bitches.
Mcnamara Blew Up Hotel.
when we returned to Indianapolis
I had a talk with J. B. Mcnamara. He
told me he had done the Green Bay
CWis.) job. Later in April l met him
in Chicago. He said he was on his
way to blow up the Utah hotel, then
under construction in Salt Lake City.
On his way back from Salt Lake City
he showed me a newspaper account
Of the explosion there on April IS,
1910, and giving a picture of the de-
stroyed part of the structure. He
said the union had had a lot of trouble
out there and he had made a good
Job of it.
Mechanical is to remain on the stand
until he describes in detail his expert
ences leading up to and after the
blowing of an iron works in Los An
geles on December %, 1910.