The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-21
CAPTAIN OF
DYNAMITE SQUAD.
seeretary-Treasur Herbert s. Hook.
In InsIsts on Going on the WIZ !.
moss Stand to Prove His
Innocence.
BEGIN TO DISAGREE
Defense viii be That Though McNa.
naras Were Guilty, the Execu-
tive Board Know Nothing
About it

! United Press Leased Wire service.l
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov 21.--
Though Herbert s. Hockin, secretary
treasurer of the iron workers and ac-
cused captain of the dynamite
SQUAD" insists he will take the stand
in his own behalf in the dynamite
conspiracy trial, 1t was said today
that the defense was inclined not to
permit him to go on. Cautioned not
to talk, the defendants declined to dis
cuss Hockin, but it was suspected that
serious disagreements have made
themselves felt lately among the for
Ity-flve defendants. Hockin, as usual
distributed the mail and messages
among the defendants in the court
room today.
Witnesses from Kansas City were
expected to be called on early today
ahead of Ortie Il. McManigal who v
scheduled to complete his confess.
Threats of dynamitings on non
union jobs by the McNamaras and sub
sequent destructive explosions were
detailed by witnesses from Cleveland
ard Indianapolis yesterday.
The defendants, who constituted
the executive board during the period
of the alleged conspiracy, were notice
ably encouraged by the testimony OF
Miss Mary G. Dye, formerly confident
ial clerk in the unions office, that J.
! u. McNamara told her he feared she
would tell the executive board what
she knew about his affairs. The de
fense is expected that the McNamaras
were guilty Of dynamiting but the
their illegal acts.
George w. Cumston, of Pittsburgh
4 formerly union iron worker of Kan
sas City, Mo-, the first witness today
told Of his dealings with Defendant
w. J. Mccain, business agent Of the
i Kansas City local, during the iron
workers, strike in 1906.
"Tll give you a job Of going down
and putting some non-union work or
i the bun," Mccain said, according tc
Cumston-
4 Ortie Z. McMan1gal was recalled to
the witness stand in the dynamite
!. conspiracy trial shortly before noon
4 today and resumed his confession oi
dynamitings.
He said he usually rode in the
smoking car Of trains when transport
q ing nitroglycerin. One by one Nc
Manigal named the various railroads
over which he travelled on his dyna
miting trips from June, 1907, until his
arrest.
That an s.inner ircIe' handled the
1000 Organization fund" which the
government charges the McNamaras
spen. for dynamitings was the state
ment Defendant Henry w Legleit
ner is alleged to have made to Sam
uel A. Meyer, newspaper man from
Cheyenne, Wyo., formerly of Denver
witness in the dynamite conspiracy
today.
Meyer testified that Legleitner tolt
j him President Frank M. Ryan hat
authority to pay our money and tn,
executive board o. KS the bills. bu
4 that an inner circle" handled ths
organization fund.-
Other witnesses detailed instances
|, in connection with the dynamiting O
the Armour railroad bridge in Kansas
City in August 1910 James Vaughn
, watchman for Armour and Co., told o
i. putting j. ]. Mcnamara of the prem
ises shortly after the explosion.
Defendants Smythe and Ray of Peo
ria, whose bondsmen surrendered
them Tuesday, were still in the mar
shaFs custody today, the promised
new bondsmen having failed to ap
pear.
McManigal returned to the time o
his trip with James B. Mcnamara II
] the wisconsin woods in Novembe
, 1910, when Mcnamara was said tt
have attempted to shoot McManiga
from behind. He said he went int
dugout with Mcnamara and the lat
ter told the story of the Los Angelo
Times dynaaniting.
'rphis would be fine place to sta.
i all winter. The authorities woult
| never find u.s." Mcnamara said, ac
| cording to Mechanical today. He SAT-
he wrote ]. j. Mcnamara Novembe
II, "the old carpenter has arrived ant
was looking fine" referring to J. B
Namara, according to ]. Us instruc