The Detroit times., 1912-11-16
Girl SAYS SHE
/ SOLD OOCKSTO
M'MANIGAL
Pittsburg Saleswoman Testifies
Confessed Dynamiter Bought
Twelve From Her
CLARK is PUT THROUGH
GRILLING EXAMINATION
Counsel for Defense Fails to
Shake Story of Cincin-
natl Man

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov 16.--Or-
tic 4. McManigal, star witness for
the government against the indicted
iron workers, did not resume his testi.
.lnony today. and District Attorney
Miller said that It might be a week
before he told the balance of his story.
More than 100 witnesses today were
waiting to testify and most OF them
will be heard before the dynamiter Is
heard again. These witnesses were
expected TO corroborate small details
OF McManigal's testimony.
A grilling cros-examination by Hard
ing, for the defense, failed TO shake
the story of Edward Clark, the Gin
cinnati dynamiter. who pleaded guilty.
The only damaging admission that
Harding drew from Clark, was that
he had been arrested many times for
various offenses. Asked why he did
the dynamiting jobs, Clark said that
he thought IL a good way to further
the interests of the union.
He said that President Frank M.
Ryan came TO Cincinnati and said tfiat
the local there was In bad condition
and that he did not like the way IL
was running. Clark did not say that
Ryan mentioned dynamite, but his
scolding was followed, he said, by
Hockin, who made the dynamitine
proposition.
The first witness today was Miss
Margaret Burns, a saleswoman OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, who told OF selling
one dozen small alarm clocks to Nc
Manigal In 1910. She said he asked
her then II her firm would ship him
the alarm clocks G. o. ID. to any point
he would send telegraph order.
The government proceeded to intro
duce witnesses to present the Munice,
! Ind, chapter OF the dynamite plot.
II will be related to the jury, how
McManigal, Hockin and J. b. McNa-
mara purchased 100 quarts of nitro
glycerine, carried IL to an empty
house In Muncie, ordered especially
constructed boxes to hold the cans.
buried the explosive and afterward
conveyed II In small lots to Indiana
polls, where II was stored In vault
ut Union headquarters and In a barn
on a farm on the outskirts of Indian
.apolis. Mrs. Lizzie Grant, of Muncie,
laid the foundation for the story by
telling Of McManigaPs call upon her
when he asked her who had the rent
a. OF the house next door, which af-
lterward was rented by the dynamit-
After Mrs. Grant identified McMan-.
igal and picture of j. B. Mcnamara,
she was followed by Isaac Grant, her
husband who corroborated her testi-
mony. Elizabeth Hiner and James A.
Field of Muncie, living near the nitro
house, told OF seeing the men enter
Ing and leaving II with suit cases.
Manuel Maddox, carpenter, told or
making the special boxes according
ITO measurements furnished by ]. B.
Mcnamara. He identified one of the
boxes and alao identified Hockin and
McManigal.
John r. Longbaugh. employed by
the Dupont Powder Co, at Montpe-
her. in 1910, picked Hockin out from
the As defendants as the man who In
August, 1910, tried to buy from him
40 quarts of nitroglycerine. He re-
fused he said, and swore that Hockin
suggested that Il would be worth his
while to hold II out on the COM
pany.'
Il told Hockin he looked like
'tlamned rougue to me-" the witness
said Longbaugh said he asked Hook
In what he would do with the stun
II he got 1t, and asserted that Hockin
said he would carry 1t away In cases
on a train.
Longbaugh said he told Hockin II
was federal offense to carry explo-
sives on trains, but Hockin said he
did not care for that.
He did not get the nitroglycerine,
the witness said