Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-12-28


ground too long, McManigal said.
up to March, 1909, Hockin was
the only man who knew me as a dy
namiter," said McManigal. Just be-
fore that date he arranged for me
to go to Boston and see NJ J. Young /
regarding the job on the Boston |
opera house which was blown up" |
Later on instruction from Hockin, |
McManigal said he went to Hoboken |
to confer with Frank c. Webb of |
New York, about blowing up a via
duct A dispute arose and McMani-
gal told Webb that Hockin was pay
| ing for the work and he purposed
to follow instructions
"Hockin paid me $3.50 for the Bos-
ton and Hoboken Jobs" said Nc
Manigal. Then it was arranged l
should meet ]. B. Mcnamara for the
first time. Hockin had telegraphed
me to meet him in Indianapolis We
went from there to Munice, Ind..
where we met j. B. Hockin, made all
arrangements here about getting rigs.
boxes and cans for the nitroglycerin
he was negotiating for. He had me
buy piano box and rent house,
lfill barrels with sawdust and put
them in the house for storing the
explosive. Hockin paid me for the
rent of the house and arranged with
a well-shooter to get the nitroglyce-
rim, which we transferred to the
+ house in Munice.
In February, 1910, in Chicago, l
received a telegram from Hockin to
: come to indianapolis. ! did not go,
: but j. b. McNamara came to Chi
) cago and told me Hockin had sent
him to explain a new invention. j
B. explained about the alarm clock
' arrangement by which we in the fu
y ture were to regulate the time foi
exploding bombs. A few days later
Hockin wired me to come to India
. napolis, where he and | and J.
Mcnamara fully went over the clccl
D scheme. With it | went TO Mt
Il Vernon, ILL.,, and pulled off jo'
IL on a power house, for which Hocki.
y paid mo 1925"
&c 1t was in the summer of 1910 whel
explosions were frequent that Nc
ID Manigal said his relations with Hoch
S, in were broken off because he dis
X covered Hockin had been keepin
as part of his pay.
he About the same time witnesse
IT. said Hockin began to give inform'
at tion about the dynamiters.
ne Beyond doubt the testimony whic
* attracted keenest interest was thi
which related to the blowing up
'st the Los Angeles Times buildiu
he That a man could deliberately br
OBJ 500 pounds of high explosive vii
al, the purpose only of destroying pro
se erty gave unusual zest to that ia
as of the story.
- Unrestricted by the court, the 90
Tor ernment went into every availab
i've detail of James B. McNamara's Q
of tivity on the Pacific coast which "
| considered essential to the char
ing here. The dynamiters arrival
lily San Francisco, after he left his broi
ing er's office in Indianapolis in Ju
lie, 1910, his accompanying McManil
Nat as far as Chicago, his sending ba
the to McManigal postcard giving h
ma greetings from the far west, a
1ne saying, 1.-The best of friends mi
me part; the dynamiter's wanderir
ing about San Francisco, his meeti
up with Clancy in Seattle, his taxi
ary lessons" from an electrical exp
in Seattle in how to set off bo
me by spark instead of by fuse,
not causing an explosion in Seattle, q
Ises his return to San Francisco prepa
go tory to going to Los Angeles, w
hen all traced.
H. A woman in San Francisco y
con. rented a room to Mcnamara, a WI
iere an who rented room to Schm
and another woman friend of G
Nc Ian, telephone operators who
iffa- nected Mcnamara with the pow
Iuct, company which sold him the nj
be- glycerin, the men from whom
bout Schmidt and Caplan rented
ligal launch used to carry the explosl
foot a clerk who sold the aluminium
ater ters by which the name OF the lau
was disguised; man who rel
i to the house in which the 500 pou
and of nitroglycerin was stored in
Mass Francisco: a clerk In a hotel in