Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-09
ORT|E NJ MAN|GAL
TELLS STORY Of
DYNANI TING
WheedIed Into His First COB"
He Was Forced to Keep
Up the Work.


plete with thrilling details was Ortie f.
McManigaI's story Of how Herbert 5.
Hockin, representing the lronworkers
international union. wheedled him into
doing his first job of dynamiting, ana
how he procured So pounds Of dyna-
mite and did blow up a hosting engine
on a job Of the Wheeler Foundry Com
pany. in Detroit
McManigal told the dynamite con-
spiracy jury trying 40 union officials
how, fearing they would run out and
be injured by the explosions, ne lock-
ID several people in a restaurant kitch-
IN, rolled a barrel In front Of the door
4et off the dynamite and went back 10
lis room, where he heard the cXplo-
sions
Il had twenty pounds OF the stuff
some fuse and Eliminating caps left
md next morning I started out to dis
pose Of It," said McManigal, "but l
saw cops in every direction, SO I took
ne STUFF 20 the bath room, whitfield
he dynamite into small bits and put it
down the sewer / threw the caps into
he river"
McMan gal said hockiI came to MIN
while he was working on the Ford
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Later met l1ocN'I ana faauy
Maekln' 'hl'a8o lrohWorKer' III sd
loon al Morgan and Van Buren streets
IN Cmeago. We went into back room
anu had talk.
Forced to Keep On.
HocKin said I've got job you must
turn for me. The Wisconsin Bridge
company has a derrick car out at elm
ton Iowa and / want you to go out
there ana blow 1t off the track l said
| didn't want to do 1t, and Hocldn said,
You can't go back on us now
j told him ! wouldn't do the job He
reminded me he had been elected In
ternational Iron Workers organizer
asked him what the executive board
was paying for that kind of work and
he said they were paying 1925 and ex-
penses said that wasn't enough.
Hockin said. I've got It on you and
you've got to do this Job You can't re-
fuse. because you've turned one trick
] met Hockin IN Chicago later, and he
said. Tve got several jobs for YOU to do
and the Clinton job is the first one
went to Tihin. Ohio. thinking Hockin
had me dead to rights. got two suit
cases full Of dynamite. took II TO Clin-
ton Iowa, and dynamited the derrick
car of the bridge company on the nigh
of February II, 1908.
LAS I was coming across the bridge
on nv way from placing the dynamite
on the derrick car at clinton. heard
one Of the explosions had set. met a
night Waterman Just then and he
flashed lantern In my face Nybo tho
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