Evening star., 1912-11-09
DYNAM|TER IS HEARD
Ortie McManigaI, on Stand,
Tells Experiences.
CAUSED MANY EXPLOSIONS
Fuse, Caps and Other Material Car
ried in Suit Case.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, November o.
For the first time in public since his ar
rest. nineteen months ago. Ortie E. Nc
Manigal related at the trial of the forty
five accused bomb plotters'' today his
experiences as hired dynamiter
The confessed accomplice Of the Nc
Namara brothers as a government wit
ness began shortly before noon telling
how for more than four years he caused
explosions about the country against en-
ployers of non-union labor
He directly accused Herbert S. Hockin,
now secretary of the International Asso-
citation of Bridge and Structural Iron
| workers. of inducing him to do dynamit-
ing under protection of the union.
At the outset McManigal asserted he
attempted to protect the lives OF people
whenever setting off bomb In his job
ing a garbage barrel against the rear
door of restaurant SO the people would
not run out and be injured or killed at
an explosion across an alley.
Il had been a member of the 1rOnwOrk-
ers Union since 19O3'' said McManigal,
land had worked in Milwaukee. Chicago
and Joliet. ILL.,. when in June, 1907, Hook
in came to me while l was working on
the Ford building in Detroit. Hockin
said the executive board of the union
had decided to clean out the open-shop
concerns, and / was the man to do it.
He said: You used to work in a stone
quarry and you know how to use ex-
plosives. You'll be paid by the union"
Finally Consented.
do as the executive board said he'd see
that I was boycotted against getting a
job. l finally consented
where to get the dynamite was the
next question. l decided to go to my
uncle, William Behm, at Bloomville, Ohio,
who had a stone quarry. l went to
BloomvilIe June % and brought back to
Detroit in suit case thirty-fiye pounds
Of dynamite, some fuse and caps.
Il told Hockin / had the dynamite in
my room. He said: All right. You've
gone this far. and you had better pull of
the job between / and in the morning.
Il went to my room and prepared three
bombs, each with fifty feet of fuse. I
then went back to the Ford building and
waited in an alley to see II there were
any police about Seeing none l put one
bomb In the firebox of the boiler in the
building under construction. another in
an air compressor and a third near the
one point, l lit all of them. They were
fixed to go off at about l am. 1t was
then 10 pm.
III A$o44 "a &1Su4ASC OOO4s
81 again looked about the alley. l
noticed q kitchen door at the rear Of a
restaurant opened on the alley opposite
where the bombs were, and, thinking
some people might run out at the first
explosion and be injured by the second or
third explosion, 1 shut the door and JAM
med a barrel Of garbage against it. Then
l went to my room and waited to hear
the noise. 1t came about 1 o'clock. Later
I heard the newsboy calling Extra
lit reminded me l still had some ex-
plosives in my room. What should dc
with them? / didn't dare to go out with
a package. That would excite suspicion.
So ] took what dynamite I had left to
| the bathroom and, cutting it into small
| pieces, flushed 1t out"
Ibid you see Hockin the next day ?'
asked District Attorney Miller.
Yes. He had paid me $40 for ex-
| penSes to Bloomville. He said I would
| be fully compensated for my work, as
| the executive board had set aside GER
| tain amount for each job, but he said |
must keep at It,
He said l would receive $125 for a
| job at first and 1 had to send a news
paper account of each explosion SO he
could get the money from the Interna-
tional Union. The clipping was a kind
of a certificate that the explosion had
! occurred"