The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-05
MAN|GAL WILL GO
 BEFORE GRAND JURY ] DURING NEXT WEEK
Exact Whereabouts of Most Important Witness Is
 Not Known
FREDERICKS BRINGS
 MASS OF EVIDENCE
District Attorney Will Stay Out of Controversy Between Brown and Burns Over Reward for
 Capture McNamaras

0OntrOYerSy between DrOWn ana
 Burns Over Reward for Capture McNamaras Indianapolis, January 4-Ortie McNlani- | gal, conessedly a member of the dynamit- ing staff of John J. McNamara, was not brought into this city tonight as was eX- pected but will reach here in time to | testify before the federal grand jury Monday Agents of the department Of justice today guarded with greatest sec reey the whereabouts of McManigal and prepared to prevent the time of his arriv- al from becoming known.
 | McManigal, upon whom the government 1 is relying for direct testimony as to the | identity of the many men alleged to have been concerned in the dynamiting con | spiracy that extended from coast to coast | is tonight somewhere between California l and this state Tt Is believed that he may have been taken from a train by the de- tective In charge of him and lodged in an intermediate city. Federal authorities said they feared some act of vengeance ! against him unless his movements arc carefully hidden.
 Dispatches announced that McManlgal left the county jail at Los Angeles on Monday of this week but it was learned tonight that the detectives entrusted with ] his transfer to this city planned to bring him here by circutous route to ward off possible interference by his enemies.
 Reason for Secrecy l Oscar Lawler, special government prose- cutor, today remarked in connection with the secrecy surrounding McMangafs s I journey, "all the sluggers are not yet dead or caught
 | Before the grand jury today appeared | half dozen witnesses, most of whom are said to know the details of the explosions at Peoria, Ill. in the fall of 1910. They also were believed to be able to tell Of the identity of persons whom Ortfe Me- Manigal says directed him to the points where dynamite was to be placed. The frame work alone of the govern- ment's case 1t was said today, had thus far been laid. and within two. or three ! says froth the offiar Of District Attornes | ONN-' ty. Cal, will be brought evidence con- corning nearly 100 of the explosions charged to the iron workers union. MT. Fredericks will not testify before the grand jury himself but will leave the | work to some of his assistants. He will leave here tomorrow with his wife on a pleasure trip through the east eve gathered together" said MT. Fredericks, "all the evidence in the United States and Canada which had any bearing on the dynamiting conspir- acy. I think in most every instance there were violations of state laws as well as federal statutes Your states out here are so small that almost every time a man changes his mind he gets outside the state."
 Tn preparation of the case against the McNamaras in California, MT. Fred ericks had intended to use witnesses to prove that scores of explosions oc- curing throughout the country were directed by union labor officials. For that reason the California evidence is in convenient form for handling.
 Fredericks Will Stay Out
 MT. Frederieks today telegraphed Samuel l.. Brown, chief detective at llOS Al any part in his controversy with De- tective Wm J. Burns over the rewards in the McNamara case.
 .Brown," said MT. Fredericks, has retained his lawyer, c. Ray Horton, my chief trial deputy, while Burns has retained w. Joseph Ford, assistant dis triet attorney, so you see it's a family quarrel I'll stay out of it.'
 Frederieks said he was not familiar with the details of the various rewards Some he thought were offered for tho arrests alone, and others for arrest and convictions.
 Frank F. xhoff of Cincinnati, intimate friend of John McNamara for years, ap- peared at the federal grand jury cham Der today R. N. Johnston. manager O. the street traction company at Peoria lso came in answer to a subpoena, and both men are assumed to have related details of various dynamite explosions now being investigated by the govern ment.
 Interest in the connection of Samuel C;ompers and former Mayor Bookwal- ter, alleged by Burns to have signih- canoe in BoolSwalter dropping his dyna- hitting inquiry two years ago, is fol- Towing Burns to Philadelphia. He ar rived there late today and 1t is be- Iieved will examine the affairs of Hugo Thorsch in labor affiliations
 ThOrScn, prlOf lo seven years ago, pup Iished labor paper in Philadelphia. He is now associated with Bookwalter in the printing firm in which. according to Burns, Gompers was concerned
 Thorsch Makes Denial
 Thorscll in a statement denying part nership with Gompers or of seeking the labor leaders, inilusLce in getting print ing contracts with unons said that the reason he moved his business from Phil adelphia to Indianapolis seven years ago was that the National Union of Carpenters and Joners tra ansferred it's headquarters. He had obtained printing orders from Frank Duffy secretary of the Carpenters union in Philadelphia and he was advised that other labor organizations purposed to initiate the carpenters and move their headuuarters 10 Indianapolis.
 Duffy was treasurer of the McNamara defense fund board.
 After I came here, and as other labor organizations moved their national of fees here" said Thorsch, "T succeeded in getting. big o~deis from the unions of teamsters, 3srbers, carpenters and coal miners.
 John Mitchell is a good friend of mine and he was president of the mine work CTS. I never got any business from the ironworkers, Il ough I often asked John l. McNamara for printing work"
 At none of the various national union headouarters In this city was 1t possible to obtain colrcboraton of charges that labor officials were advised of the dyna- hitting operations of John B. McNamara two years ago.
 No affrmat'on was issued of Bookwal-