Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
New Detectives
WereFOllOWing,
Says CManigal.

Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 22.--Explo-
sions On non union iron works in Mill
WauFee, Wis, omaha, Neb., and
Springfield. Mass, were explained 10y
ortie g. McManigal ct the dynamite
conspiracy" trial today. as having
been done by him. shortly before he
and James =. Mcnamara, arriving in
Detroit 90 Clean up" that city,. weiT
arrested with suit cases filled with dy-
Mantle. For weeks before his arrest
he testified, he had observed how b.
was being followed and had seen
strange heads lodging around the cor
nerS of elevator shafts in the Iren
Workers Headquarters in Indianapo-
lis.
II told James r.. before we started
for Detroit that William J. Burns had
detectives after us: that detectives
We're even coming up near the vault.
where we stored the dynamite, and
that one of them followed me on the
street, when ! was going, with suit
case OF dynamite. to blow up the Chi
cage job" said MECHANICAL. "McNa-
mara said if we SAW any more
of them we would go To Chicago
and rent a room next To Burns office,
put an electric wire through the wall
and arrange to set off from our room
a bomb in Burns desk when he was
sitting there That would make an
end OF our troubles with him." he SAID.
Il told him / didn't think he would do
anything of the kind or ever get near
Burns" That was about April >, 1911,
McManigal said. He and Mcnamara
were arrested seven days later.
At John J. McNamara's instructions.
McManieal said, lie went To Spring
field. Mass, and there met Michael j.
Young, the union official al Boston,
who pointed ont n tower in the group
of municipal buildings he wanted
blown up. young told HE to lay the
tower fat on the ground" testified Me-
ManigaI. ssIe said he had had some
trouble with the foreman, but l said
/ had not come to clean up any per-
son, but TO blow up a job.
Il put two bombs in the tower and took
a train for Utica. n. Y. At Utica l ex-
amined Il vest pocket gun. James r. had
told me that NJ. y. Schmidt, who helped
him ON the Pacific coast, used 10 carry
a small gun in his hand so he could shoot
quickly without reaching TO his pockets
when he was doing job. Then / went
to Rochester, y. Y, and bought a dozen
alarm clocks to be used in making
bombs''
Later, in Chicago MeManigal said he
met r. H. Houlihan, financial secretary
of the local union. II asked him. said
the witness, whether he had the news
about the Columbus, Ind, firm going TO
unionize their Jobs thereafter and were
going to use only union men in concrete
work at Oklahoma City. Okla. He re-
piled: More power to the rough gang .
Joseph Schwartz, who was arrested
today, charged with attempting TO oh
struct Justice by intimidatfng Cornelius
Crowley of Monica, Pa, witness. was
locked in the Jail after a preliminary
hearing before a United States commits
sioner.
Robert J. Foster, detective, and
Crowley testified before the commissioner
that Schwartz had told the witness ..he
did notsneedsto tell the truth if he didn't
want to-
They asserted that schwartz, on learn
ing Crowley was to testify concerning
nitro-glycerine hidden at Rochester, Pa,
urged him not TO appear
HE said no court could make him
squeal," said Foster
Schwartz, who said he lived in Chicago.
testified he remarked that he would
rather have his heart cut out than be
MeManigal.7
He was held to the federal grand jury.