Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-01

McManigal. aged about 40 yezrs.
short. chubby and Of aorid conn
plexion, entered the courtroom grim
ming His eyes twinkled keenly ais
he glanced at the other defendant8.
He closely scrutinzed one by ons
the men with whom. he asserts. ils
once Was associated but agains.
whom he now is arrayed as a prose-
outing Witness AS he looked not q
sign OF recognition other than Me-
Manigle's inscrutable grin passed be.
tween them.
"Ortie u. MeManigai. do YOU plead
guilty or not guilty 10 the charges
against your asked Judge Ander-
son.
The scene WAS dramatic Al the
l1Windews of tn& 4ntlnt room, had been.
ourtained to exclude outside annov-
ance. and the padding on the walls,z
provided TO deaden noise, seemed Is
intensity the silence A score OF at
torneys leaned forward to hear the
prisoners reply.
McManigal rubbed the back OF his
hand across his chin and grinned
again.
= plead guilty. your honor he
said.
McManigals plea qualified him az
witness for the government
had Dynamite when Arrested.
He had been imprisoned for eigh-
teen months. His plea occasioned no
surprise, for he already had con-
fessed TO his operations ais member
of the Mcnamara "dynamiting crew.
to having carried nitro -glycerin and
dynamite in a suitcase from State
TO state on passenger trains and to
having actually blown up the Liewef-
lyr Iron Works at Los Angeles on
December 25, 1910. for completely it
which John J. McNamara was sem
fenced to fifteen years imprisonment.
McManigal. the j w McCiraw OF
the Pacific coast" has been IN cus-
tody ever since his arrest with James
b. McNamara in a hotel in Detroit on
April ~, 1910 When arrested. each
with suitcase filled with enough
dynamite and nitro-glycerin to blow
up the hotel, they were wedging their
way through a crowd of theatrical
people gathered in the lobby.
On motion of the government the
cases against J. w. Ryan, Peoria. H.:
Andrew j. Cayanaugh. Springfield,
ILL.,. and Patrick H. RYAN Chicago
were dismissed. The government iasl~s
nounced 1t had no evidence against
them to warrant their trial All or
the men had been identified with the
ironworkers union
Heading List Of Defendants.
AT the head of the list Of defend~
ants, who thus are brought into court
exactly two years after the Los
Angeles disaster are:
Frank NJ, Ryan, president OF tho
international Association Of Bridge
and Structural Ironworkers
Ortie II. McManigal. once known as
u. W. McGraw' on the Pacific coast.
confessed dynamiter and accom-
plce Of the McNamara brothers, who
has been kept in custody as a Wit
ness for the prosecution ever since
his arrest ia Detroit year ago last
April
Herbert $. Hockin. successor ot
John J Mcnamara as secretary
treasurer of the union, whom Nc
Manigal accuses OF being the organs
izer OF the Tdynamting crew aud
one Of the originators Of the alarm
clock scheme by which explosions
were set off several hours after tlte
mlne was placed
Most of the other defendants a r
present or former union officiali
whom the government charges wei
linked together In a conspiracy by
extensive correspondence from /
to 1911. during which time more tn
100 explosions in States scatter
from Massachusetts to California
CURED in works under constructi
by employers Of non-union labor
FIfty-four Indicted
Fifty-four men were indicted ID
February. but John j. Mccra6
Wheeling. W. va. never has been TO-
Gated and the Mcnamara brothers al IS
In prison in California
The COURTROOM, which prob; y
weeks viii be the scene Of thl
has long been ready Every
ton has been taken to secure
The windows of the small ra
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