Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-01
DYNAMITE TRIAL ON
Fifty Defendants in Nina
mara "PI0ts" Arraigned.
M'MANIGAL PLEADS GUILTY
Qualities as Government Witness in
Cases at Indianapolis.
DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT
Clancy and Tvietmoe Plead Not
Guilty-The Two Ryans and
Kavanaugh Dismissed.
DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT

INDIANAPOLIS, October 1.-Stationeo
within rail in the small courtroom
where they occupied almost half the
space, the defendants charged with conf
plicity in the Mcnamara dynamite
plot" were placed on trial before Fed
eral Judge Albert 3. Anderson today.
Judge Anderson at 9:45 am. ordered
called consolidated case No. 3, the
United States agt Frank Nj. Ryan ct al. -
At the outset Ortie E. McManigal
pleaded guilty.
Eugene A. Clancy and Olaf A. Tvet-
moe of San Francisco pleaded not guilty
All the other defendants at their ar
raignment last March had pleaded not
guilty.
Fifty Men to Be Tried.
Daniel j. Brophy, Brooklyn, N. Y, a
former executive board member of the
International Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, was reported
unable to appear on account of a broken
leg. His absence left fifty men to be
tried.
A motion to set aside the order con-
sol1datlng the cases. made on behalf OF
the defendants. was sustained. This sepa-
the defendants to be tried together.
McManigal, about forty years old, short.
chubby and of f1orid complexion. en-
tered the courtroom grinning. His eyes
twinkled keenly as he glanced at the
other defendants. He closely scrutiniZed
one by one the men with whom, he as
serts he once was associated, but against
whom he now is arrayed as a prosecuting
witness AS he looked not sign OF
recognition other than McManigal's in
| or h 10 crfT1 hat
"Ortie E. McManigal. do you plead
guilty or not guilty. to the charges
against your asked Judge Anderson.
Dramatic Scene Presented.
The scene was dramatic. All the win
dows of the courtroom had been cur
tanned to exclude outside annoyance, and
the padding on the walls, provided to
deaden noise, seemed to intensity the ST.
lence. A score of attorneys leaned for
ward to hear the prisoners reply.
McManigal rubbed the back of his hand
across his chin and grinned again.
II plead guilty, your honor" he said.
McManigaPs plea qualified him as q
witness for the government. for which
purpose he had been imprisoned for
eighteen months. But it occasioned no
surprise, for he already had confessed
to his operations as a member OF the
Mcnamara dynamfting crew, to nav
ing carried nitroglycerin and dynamite
in a suit case from state to state on pas
senger trains and to having actually
blown up the Llewellyn iron works at Los
Angeles December q. 1910. for completely
in which John j. Mcnamara was SEN
fenced to fifteen years imprisonment.
Three Cases Dismissed.
McManigal, the 81. W. .McGraw" of the
Pacific coast, has been in custody ever
since his arrest with James B. Mcnamara
in a hotel in Detroit, April II, 1910. When
arrested, each with suit case filled with
enough dynamite and nitroglycerin to
blow up the hotel, they were wedging
their way through crowd of theatrical
people gathered in the lobby.
On motion of the government the cases
against j. w. Ryan, Peoria. ILL.,; Andrew
J. Kavanaugh, Springfield. ILL.,, and Pat
rick H. Ryan. Chicago, were dismissed.
The government announced it had no evil
dence against them to warrant their trial.
All of the men had been identified with
the iron workers union.