The chronicle=news., 1912-12-28

Manigal said he went to Hoboken to
confer with Frank C. Webb. OF New
York. about blowing up = viaduct.
Ia dispute arose and McManikai told
Webb that Hockln was paying for the
work and he purposed to follow in-
|structiOns.
"Hockin paid me $3.50 for the Bos-
ton and Hob0ken jobs. said Nc
Manisal. Then IL was arranged ]
should meet j. Is. Mcnamara for the
first time. HOckin had telegraphed
me to meet him In lndianapolls1 We
went from there TO Muncie. Ind.
where We met J. u. iiookIn made all
here about getting
rigs. boxes and cans for the nitro
Klyccrin he was negotiating for. lie
had me buy a plano box and rent
house. iii barrels with sawdust and
put them In the house for storing
the explosive. liockin paid me FOR
the rent OF the house and arranged
with II wcll-shootcr to get tn. nitro
xlycerin. which We transferred to the
house In Muncic.
In February. 1910. In Chicago. I
received "a telegram from iiockin to
come to Indianapolis. ! did not 20.
but j. H. Mcnamara came to Chicago
and told him liockin had sent him
to explain new invention, j. u.
ranIcmcnt by which We In the future
were to regulate the time for eSpiod-
ing bombs. \ few days later iiockin
wired me to come to indianapolis.
where he and I and J. j. McNamaTa
fully went over tho clock scheme.
with IL went to Mt. Vernon. H..
and pulled Off u job on a power house.
Tor which iiockin paid me sI:s."
II ~as In the summer of 1910
when explosions were frequent that
McManiIni said his relations with
iiockin were broken off because hr
discovered Hockin had been keeping
part OF his pay. About that same
tim. witnesses said IioCkin began to
give Information about the dynamit-
err.
Edward Smythc. OF Peoria. III,
also was accused by McManiral as
having personally pointed out Jobs
to be blown up. \ hotel keeper re-
aicd that after the cSp!"sion Smyth.
examined III. hotel register. and
later the page ON which Mechanical
out. McManiSai said Smythc ar
ranged to Eo TO u theatre the night
of tho explosion and prove all alibi
by keeping the seat checks.
President Ryan. Of tn" iron work
crs' union. and all the other defend
ants were charged with being prin-
cipals to the conspiracy through the
writing OF letters Ryan'n defense
was that the McNamaras and those
who confessed along knew iha; "a
''dynami'ing campaign WAS being
carried on. and that the executive
board members did not know what
Secretary Mcnamara did wits the
900 monthly appropriated for his
use without his being required to
give Rn accounting.
Beyond doubt the testimony which
attracted kcencst Interest was that
which related to the blowing up OF
tho Los Angeles Times building.
That u man could deliberately bus
500 pounds Of hlgh cNposivc with the
purpose only Of destroying property
gave unusual xest to that part Of the
story.
Unrestricted by the court. the gov
crnmcn: went into every available
detail OF James u. McNamara's ac-
tivity on the Pacific coast which was
considered essential TO tho charges
here. The dynami,cr's arrival in
San Francisco. after hc left his bro
TIERS office In indianapolis In July.
1910. his accompanying McManiga
az far as Chicago. his sending back
to McManiEai a postcard giving him
greetings from the far west, and say
ing: The best OF friends must part"
the dynamitcr's wandcrings about
San Francisco. his meeting with
Clancy In Seattle. his taking les
Seattle in how to set off bomb by
a spark instead OF by a fuse. his
causing an explosion in Seattle. and
his return to San Francisco. prcpar-
atory to going to Los Angeles, were
all traced.
A woman in San Francisco who
rented room TO Mcnamara. q wo-
man who rented o room TO Schmidt,
and another women friend OF Cap
Ian. telephone operators who con-
ncctcd McNamara with the powder
company which sold him to nitro
gclatinc. the mon from whom he.
Schmidt and Caplan rented the
launch used to carry the explosive;
a clerk who sold the aluminium let
tcrs by which the name of the launch
WAS disguised: man who rented
tho house. in which the 500 pounds
OF nitrogclatinc was stored in San
Francisco: u clerk in n hotel in Los
Angeles to whom Mcnamara bid
good night" at about Z O'Clock at
night. after the bomb had been sent
in link allcy" I'm tho Times" build.